ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10179, 13 October 1894, Page 6

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

ANARCHY MENACING BUROPE,

It must be admitted (according to a London despatch, September 20) that the extraordinary measures adopted for the suppression of anarchy in France have served thus far to make its mad votaries more defiant and threatening than ever. It is literally true that a large portion of the mail of the President of the French Republic and other prominent officials consists of threats of assassination. The officers of the Home department — the surety for general safety—are at their wits'end. They do not know how to cope with the, situation. The plans which have been adopted for the protection of the life of President Casimir-Perier are mora elaborate than any ever, employed under the Empire. When the President left Paris on Thursday, August 2, for his country residence the train included two ;• secondclass carriages containing 35 detectives. A corps of 70 <af the officers are employed on the estate when the President is' in his residence. They assume the character of labourers, gardeners, fishmongers, and hawkers' in the neighbourhood of chateau. When the President goes to Paris they disappear. Any stranger who loiters within a block of the Elysee is quickly questioned by a detective. The necessity for this espionage is extremely galling to the President, but lie is wise, enough to recognise the genuine danger. Persons who assume to knew what' French Anarchists are doing say that they will seek to establish; a reign. of terror ih Paris in October. ',' OTJTBBEAk OF,..CHOLERA. 7.: We3tern Europe is just beginning to awaken to the fact (says a London despatch of September 2) that the most savage cholera epidemic of modern years is sweeping along to its very doors. AYe have been seeing standing cholera announcements .in the papers- all the year chronicling devastations in far-oS places and have paid no attention. Sporadic cases in the Flemish and Dutch lowlands for a couple of months br.ck also passed unnoticed. Now, suddenly, it is forced upon us that hot only has the scourge reached a terrible point throughout Old Polish Russia and Galicia, but is moviDg forward in an unbroken wall, killing full half the number it attacks, md slaying by the thousand. But it has,made a big outbreak in Tilleur, a sort of wo'rking-clafs suburhof Liege, , where the unheard-of percentage is 24 deathain 25 cases. This makes the Meuse Valley infected all the way from Maestricht to Sevaing, and its dense, badly housed, poorly fed population of ironworkers and coal miners affords an ideal formation bed for a great pestilence. Ai the crow flies this fresh outpost of the plague is only 200 miles from Paris arid 250 miles from London. WEECK OF THE MIRANDA. ' The schooner Rigil, of Gloucester, Mass., arrived at North Sydney, Cape Bret, on September 5, having on board the crew and passengers of the ill-fated steamer Miranda, which left New York on 7th July with Dr Cook's Arctic excursion^ All the parties were well on arrival. On August 9 the Miranda struck a rock near Sakortoppa, West of Green■land, and was abandoned in a sinking condition. On August 23, iri'Davis Strait, latitude iabout 61.15 and longitude 58.4-0. The schooner Rigil was' with other American fishing craft on the Nalibut Banks, near Holsteinberg, 120 miles south of the scene of the Miranda's mishap., Dc Cooki with Messrs Rogers, Porter; Dunning, and four Esquimaux, under information from the Danish Government, started for the Banks in an open boat, and-secured the services of the vessel, otherwise the members of the expedition might have been compelled to winter in Greenland. It is charged; by Professor E. Fred Wright tbat during the storm the; crew of the Miranda were beastly drunk. CONDITIONOF NEW YORK TAILORS. It was suggested by John B. Lennaro, secretary of the National Union of Journeymen Tailors, that at the parade on Labour Day in , New York on September 3 the half-starved makers of pants, coats, and vests, who are now fighting, or trying to fight, against the rapacity of clothing contractors, fall into line in their rags, and show the people of New York to what depth of squalor men can be brought eveu with work in plenty on their hands. The suggestion was adopted, and the parade of the army of labour presented a pitiable spectacle. Afc the preceding meeting a speaker named Harrison, representing the Brotherhood of Journeymen Tailors, drew a picture of the sufferings of the people who are working under the task or sweater system. He said their families wero on the point of starvation, and that hundreds of tailors, despite the fact. that they were incessantly engaged for 12 or 14- hours per day in making clothes for others, had scarcely enough rags of their own with which to cover their nakedness, and sometimes drop on the ground from sheer exhaustion. THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. , The Manchester Ship Canal shareholders met on September 1, when the financial result of the first half-year's work was discussed. The total net revemie from tolls on-the canal amounted to £89,090, and the total net revenue from all sources to £35.000. The iuteresfc due, oh debentures "was £150,000. There is, therefore, a deficit of much more than £100,000, to be provided for. - The com pany-have unappropriated resources amounting to £450,000, and can, meet the interest due easily enough. Theße resources, however, consist of the balance of the last corporation loan and of a reserve fund, on both of which there are heavy, calls for construction purpoßea and a further half-yearly interest payment oyer and above revenue. The directors, nevertheless, have confidence in the>euccess of the venture. A bitter controversy with Liverpool, which takes the form of rate-cutting, is going on. Liverpool's hostility to the canal is unmitigated. They are at war with the railways, between which and the Manchester docks there is at present but a < single connection. The directors, however, are far from despairing, and the shareholders do.not seem to have raised the slightest complaint at the meeting, distant as the day of dividends may be.- The report was unanimously adopted, and the chairman's salary increased. GENERAL ITEMS. A man named W. W. Cash, who followed cards for a living, waR killed afc an interior town in California called Willows, on August 15. He left a widow, Mrs Amelia Cash, who hails from Now Zealand, but declares she will not return to that country till she brings the murderers of her husband to account. Two men have been arrested charged with the crime. Messrs Low and Eaton. returned to Quebec on September 1 from a 16 months' exploring trip of that almost unknown land the Labrador Peninsula. They report finding an iron ore district of 6000 square miles, containing whole mountains of ore, and also a new lake over 100. miles long and 50 miles wide. It is proposed to construct, as a great attraction for the Berlin Exhibition of; 1900, a monster telescope able to show the inhabitants of the moon, if there bo any, and M. Deacboeuofchein is said to be willing' to advance 2,000,000fr towards the cost. Signalling at sea by means of gongs under water has proved a decided succets. The plan consists merely of an ordinary gong fastened to the boat of a ship below the water line. This is a transmitter, and the receiver is a gong ef exactly similar tone and rate ef vibration to one on each side of the ship below boat-water line. The receiving gong will take up and reproduce from long distances. The British Government are making further tests. According to Mr C. H. Wilson, M.P., there were 56,000 foreign sailors on board British ships. Thomas Edison, the inventor and electrician, is to be held to answer before the Grand Jury of Essex, New Jersey, for aiding aud abetting at a prize fight for kinetoscope purposes. Judge Depuo, iv his charge to tho jury, said : It will be your duty to take notice of this offence, no matter what the collateral purpose or whafc incidental motive the parties may have had in view in conducting these violations of the law. The criminal laws apply to all classes of the community, and a man may as well do murder for the sake of scientific investigation as to violate any other laws for inquiry and experiments of this character."

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