ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1001, 4 July 1879, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The Canadian Government Agent at Liverpool has arranged to send GO more cotton operatives from Stockport and Dundee to the cotton mills at Ontario. At Stockport, there were 500 applicants for the GO vacant places. A sad accident is announced at Madrid. The Duke of Webnia Coela was out shooting, when his gun went off and mortally wounded him. The Duke was only married last year, and leaves a widow of 19 years.

The Assize Court at.Florence has commenced the trial of an individual who threw a bomb in the midst of a procession of workmon returning from a funeral service in memory of King Victor Emanuel.

The anniversary festival of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum was celebrated at the Crystal Palace. The donations were announced to amount to LGOOO.

The Sultan has invested Baroness Burdett Coutts with the Grand Cordon, an Imperial order of Shapkat. This new Turkish order of charity is for feminine recipients only." An envoy extraordinary, from the King of Shim, is on its way to England, to invest Her Majesty with the order of the White Elephant, in return for the order of St. Miehaal and St. George, presented to His Majesty by the Queen, last year. Governor Kennedy, of Iloug Kong, peremptorily opposed the sailing of ships from that port for the purpose of engaging in Coolie transportation. General Grant and party left Hong Kong on the sth May, for Canton. Queen Victoria's birthday was observed in San Francisco by a banquet given by the British Benevolent Society. Admiral Hornby was present, as was also General M'Douell, commanding a division of the Pacific.

The declaration of the polling for ihe seat of Clare County, Ireland, vacated by Sir Bryan O'Lough'en, was as follows : O'Gormau Mahoo, Nationalist, IGOI ; Captain Yandeleur, Conservative, 1531 ; and Peter O'Brien, Liberal, 807. In the French Senate, M. Jules Ferry, Minister of Public Instruction, denied that the Government sought to put an end to Congregati'oiialists. He had, on the contrary, replaced numbers of lay-school-masters by members of religious bodies. Late New York papers say that business prospects in the Dominion are yet gloomy. The number of failures that occurred in Canada during U;e quarter ending March 31 was G34, with liabilities amounting to 9.200,020 dol. The remains of a body were found in a coal cellar at Elision square, London, in a decomposed state. It is now certain that the remains are those of Miss Hockar, an eccentric lady, a native of Canterbury, who resided there for some time, but of whom nothing Las been heard for IS months.