News by the Mail.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6140, 4 January 1895, Page 4

News by the Mail.

ABMENIAIT MASSACRE. llllfiL' report' was received on November .by the London Times from Syria. Efmporting that Ezeki Pana, a Turkish >7 Marshal, with a detachment of Jannisand a field battery massacred 2000 at Sosscon. • The bodies of 1 the dead were left nnbnried, and this . canswl an outbreak of cholera. Many fllm«h'.n<i fled across the Russian frontier. Numerous appeals have been made by the Armenians to the Foreign Office, and the energetic action of Mr Phillip Carre, the British Ambassador to Turkey, fr" caused consternation among the members of the Turkish Government. Everything has been done to keep secret the fact of the outrages. The Sultan has thmXMI to send a Commission, composed of three members of his military housebold and one civilian, to El Sussoon for the purpose of making an impartial inquiry into the outrages on the Armenians. The Turkish official account of the Armenian outrages is to the effect that a number of brigands, provided with arms of foreign make, joined an insurgent Kurd tribe for the purpose of committing excesses, and burned and devastated several Mosselman villages. The Ottoman troops punished them severely before they were fable to establish order and tranquility. THE MARRIAGE OF THE CZAR. The young Czar Nicholas and the Princess Alix of Hesse were united in marriage on November 26th in the church adjoining the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg. There were no festivities to mark the wedding other than that the members of the Imperial family took dinner together. The absence of street decorations caused much remark as being without precedent. There were no illuminations at night, nor any festal signs. It is true that crowds remained in front of the Anitienkoff Palace singine the National Hymn. The Czar and Czarina came to the balcony at intervals, and were loudly cheered. The Imperial manifesto on the occasion of the royal wedding occupied a page of the Chronicle. It reduces the rates ou lands rented by Land Banks to farmers. It is a comprehensive document, and breathes benevolence in every line. It grants the greatest amnesty accorded by Russia for half a century, except the liberation of the serfs. The Czar and his bride will retreat to a rural palace for their honeymoon. When the ftast of the Nativity ends, January 6th, the new reign will begin active operations. AN ARISTOCRATIC "BOSS." According to Mr Labouchere, in Truth, the Duke of Beaufort, said to be one of the most tyrannous landlords in England, assumes to dictate all affairs of the town of Stoke Gif Ford. His Grace took objection to the election recently of Admiral Close as a churchwarden, and served notices to quit on the tenant farmers who voted for Km. The Duke afterwards announced that he would withdraw the notices only on condition that the Admiral resigned. In order that the farmers should not suffer, the Admiral did resign. It now appears that Admiral Close himself was a tenant of the Duke, and he also received notice to quit his house, the lease of which had just expired. He has practically been evicted because ho was chosen churchwarden without the Ducal authority. WHAT THE DIAMOND KING HAD TO SAY. Mr Cecil Rhodes, the Premier of Cape Colony, who amassed such a large fortune as the Director of various diamond fields at Kimberley that he obtained .the designation of "The Diamond King," had, according to a London despatch, an interview on November 18th, in which he said he went to Chicago and spent 10,000 dollars at the World's Fair. "The only thing I got in return was a prohibitive duty. America has usually taken about one-third of the export of cut diamonds, but during the last few years of depression in the United States the sales have been much reduced. We find when business in one part of the world is depressed that trade with others is improved. The output of diamonds is regulated. We could mine three times the quantity of diamonds produced, but we could not use them, and there is no advantage in producing beyond a certain amount. I am a freetrader, but if a country persistently shuts out the products of another country, I believe the country discriminated against is perfectly justified in shutting out the products of the country which first imposed the discriminating duties." AN ARISTOCRATIC SENSATION. The body of a comely, well-dressed young woman, named Dawes, about 30 years of age, belonging to the unfortunate class, was found in a much-frequented thoroughfare, Holland Villas Road, Kensington, with her throat cut from ear to ear, late last November, and on December 4th the Scotland Yard detectives found their clues led directly to Reginald Llewellyn Bassett Saunderson as the perpetrator of the deed. Saunderson is a nephew of the famous Colonel E. J. Saunderson, the Orange leader, M.P. for North Armagh, a Magistrate and DeputyLieutenant, and son of Llewellyn Bassett Saunderson, Esq., a J.P. of Dublin, Ireland, who married Lady Mary Scott, third sister of the Earl of Clonmel. One of " Reginald Saunderson'saunts is Lady Edith Caroline Monk, wife of the Hon. Henry P. C. Monk, the eldest son of the fourth Viscount Monk. Another of his aunts is Lady Maria Henrietta Fitzclarence, whose husband is a brother to the Earl of Monster, and a grandson of William IV. So much for the pedigree of the alleged culprit, who it appears is only 21 years old, tall and handsome, and an expert at football, rowing, and swimming. But he , is far from strong-minded, and was sent I to a school for the protection and education of gentlemen of weak intellect, at Hampton, in the South of England. It is said his homicidal condition of mind was induced by poring over the newspaper details of the trial of a man named James C. Read, at Sonthend, England, tor the murder, on the 24th of June last, of .a young woman whose name was Florence Dennes, with whom he (Read) was intimate. The police first got on the track of Saunderson in Belfast through a confession in an unsigned letter, and took him into custody, but while the prisoner was being conveyed to Dublin he escaped. He was re-captured on December. 3rd at KQleshandra, near Armagh, at the latter town, where. to a later despatch, his father on December sth. It is said tried to commit suicide the gaol officials reinformation that Saunderson Governor the gaol murder. A second Bth says Saunderin London. He The letter which Dublin, giving Dawes was signed " Jack to the formal prisoner Designs, at before