Mail News.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 6049, 14 September 1894, Page 4

Mail News.

(by TELEGRAPH FROM AUCKLAND.) CAPTURES A PRINCE. The engagement is announced of Miss Florence Pullman, daughter of the railroad millionaire, to Prince Isenberg Birstein, eldest son of Prince Charles of Isenberg-Birstein and Archduchess Maria Louisa of Austria, and a cousin of the Emperor of Austria. Miss Pullman's father only consented to his daughter's engagement to the Prince on condition that their children shall possess full rights of succession to the title, dignities and hereditary privileges of the house of Isenberg-Birstein, according to the Austrian law; however, the magnates of this hypnotised aristocratic house must, by formal document, recognise the equality of Pullman's grandchildren with their own descendants. If Miss Pullman could obtain the title of a Princess from some foreign Court this difficulty would be overcome. The Prince is known as one of the poorest of Austrian nobleman, and is said to be the instrument of a Jew marriage broker in Vienna, who pays his expenses, already amounting to 200,000 dollars. It is reported, on a contingency, that it will cost Pullman at least a million dollars the first year to keep the Prince, and perhaps 800,000 dollars a year thereafter. A RELIGIOUS RIOT IN QUEBEC. The city of Quebec, Canada, was in the hands of a French-Canadian Catholic mob on 7th August. The Protestant Mission houses were wrecked in three different parts of the town by a body of rioters, estimated at from 2000 to 5000 ; and the police either could not or would not make a single arrest. The rioters had been inflamed by the utterances of Le Lecteur, a French newspaper of the city, which the night previous described the Baptist Mission in the French-Canadian suburb of St. Rocks, as " Salvation Army barracks," and, in reference to murderous assaults committed in the Quebec streets some years ago among members of the Army, said " the Salvation Army girls have short memories. They will remain quiet if they know what is good for them, and not attempt the conquest of the population of St. Rocks." The actual cause of the riot • on the 7th was the opening of a Baptist Mission House on Sunday, the oth. Its services are all in French, and the object is believed to be the conversion of the French Catholics, in whose stronghold it is situated. The Rev. Mr Greniers, one of the missionaries, is a son-in-law of the ex-priest Father Chiniquy. CANADA. According to a despatch from St. John's (N.F.) on July 31st, Dr Cook's Arctic expedition is likely to be abandoned. Word was received in London, on the same date, of the safe arrival at Archangel of the steamer Windeward, with the Jackson Polar Expsdition on board. The pack of salmon on the Fraser River is very small. So far—August 4th —the canners have not put up a quarter of the salmon usual at this time of the year. There was a mutiny and mimic war in Company 4 of the British Columbia Battalion of Garrison Artillery in Victoria (8.C.) on August Bth, and strong measures had to be immediateiy adopted to preserve the discipline of the corps. It appears that a major, a captain, and a lieutenant had been gazetted, not one of whom had worn a uniform or knew anything or military matters. The men refused to serve under such officers, as they would have no confidence in them if called into active service. In a regatta that took place in the harbor of St. John's, N. 8., on August 21st. the yacht Primrose was sunk in a sudden squall that came up, and Samuel Hatton, Fred Priest George Heathfield, A. Kelly, G. Bartlett, James Hanley, William Russell, and H. Hoby were drowned. Hutton was one of the best known oarsmen in the world. He was one of the celebrated Paris crew which won fame on both sides of the Atlantic a quarter of a century ago. Four of the yacht's crew ■were taken from the water, where they were found swimming.