News by the Mail.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5471, 30 December 1892, Page 3

News by the Mail.

GENERAL SUM-MARY. (BY TELKfiKAPn.) Ai"cki.and, December 30. The cholera has not disappeared from England with the cold weather :is was expected. A fierce liattlc with the plague next summer is looked for. Mr Lnbouehcre has unearthed another bomts society of science. The letters arc simi'ar to tiio&e of the International Society of Science. Literature, and Art, the Council of which included Sir Gilbert Campbell, recently convicted of swindling and sent to prison,"and other notables. The poisoner Xeill was hanged in London on November 14. Xeill, though ill. wrote constantlv. Throughout the day he was silent, irritable, and moody. The body was encased in a eoflin tilled' with quick-lime, and placed under the flagstones in the corridor. It is claimed that he had a murder record on both sides of the Atlantic, and poisoned six girls in London, three of whom were named Alice Marsh, Emma Shrivell, anil Matilda Clover.

H -ports on December 9, a month since the beginning of the great cottou lock-out in England, say that matters are no nearer settlement than at the beginning. Perfect order p evails throughout"the district, but there is a fearful amount of suffering. Forty thousand non-union mill hands are idle through the same dispute with no treasury to draw on. Their condition is pitiable. Small-pox is extending its ravages throughout England with such rapidity as to alarm the authorities. The residents of arrington were so bent upon vaccination that the doctors worked day and night inoculatingpeople. The disease had broken out seriously at Manchester, Liverpool, St. Helen's, Wigan, Salford. Durham. Rqtherham, JJarnsley, and }>raiifoni. The most serious outbreak was at Leeds, where all available room in the hospitals was occupied. The new Duke of Marlborough, who came of .ige in time to step into his fathers shoes, is the kind of young man who is accustomed to have his own way. He is passionately foiul of riding, and does not allow such little things as the"death of his father to interfere with his amusements. AMERICAN SUMMARY. Three assassinations took place among the Italians in New Orleans 011 December 9th, and the hand of the Mafia Society is seen again in the south-' ast. ' C iptain Davis M'Williams, of the British ship Mosford, committed suicide by laudanum at San Francisco. He had made two previous attempts. A storm of great severity raged in California for three" days, ending on November 30. On the peninsula of San Francisco the effects were particularly disastrous. Houses were blown down in the city, large ships dragged their anchors, and many small craft were lost.

The anticipated loss of revenue consequenton the reduction of the tariff is the subject of discussion in poll ical circles. The L'cnerai impression seems to be that the Democrats will not now dare to increase the public debt, but Cleveland has ways unknown to both Republican and Democratic politicians.