ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10322, 1 April 1895, Page 4

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

AFFAIRS IN HAWAtI.

Writing on March l^, the Auckland Herald's Honolulu corffeppndent says : —"The Military Commission whic'i was convened to try the prisoners in the lato revolutiou^linsconoluded its session. Jt began, its wori'c on tha 17ih January and finished ou'ifcbiuavjr 28. 16 w»s in session 35 daj'n. During the period of.its session 28 separate ca^ea were disposed of. by the conimUsiou. Thirteen of tacse were for tretson and 15 were for micprisiou of treason. The mesti of the (reason cases were bitches of prisoners tried together.'" Abojjetber i . 190' prifouers were brou/jhfc before the commission. One hundred ond one prisoners pleaded guiliy of treas'bit and four of misprision of treason. Altogetbeil there weie six acquitted on the chaigo of trtason and two of misnrioion. The six ringleaders—Greliolr, Seward, Burtelman, Newlin,, Kicoard, and . Wilooi—were found guilty, and senteocod to 35 years' imprisontti«nt witti h»r»l labour, and to pay a fiDe of 10,000dol. The thres young men who acted a^ lieutenants. Widman, Marshall, and Greig, were given 20 years' hard labour, with a fiae of EOOOdol. The trial uf Liliuokalaui, the ex-Qni;eD, attracted a large crowd of spectators to the courtroom. The. trial lasted four driys. She wan found guilty by the. cpmrais^iou and eenteoced to imprisonmept for - five years 'and fined 5000d01.. iShe.is ponfined in a room oii astcood flbor.of the executive buildinff.and \vill bo kept thete for t the precept. Newlin auil Bertelmin, who turned S^ati'iievidence,hacltheirsentences SU^ponded, !iu'd;attfce.preseu:- time are a'j large. Several of the prisoners arrested were given the privilege of ttau&ug trial or leaving the bouutry. They accepted the latter alternative. Some 50 of those who were tried wera found guilty, aud teutenced to terras of, imprisonment ranging from otic to five years. . Maifial law will come to an end in less than a week from iiow. It is then expocted that the Legislature will ba called together in special session."

LONDON SCANDAL.

John Sto'ito Douglafi, Marquis of Queensberry, was arraigned before the msgiatruW) (Mr Newtoa) in tbe Marlborouga Police Court, Loudim, on the aftornoou of March 2, oo » charge of having liballtd, Oacar Wilda. Mr ■\yiidu'B lawyer,! in preseating the ca»e, set forth that his client was a hniiband who was living upon- mb*t affectionate terais niih his wife- and two bods. For the last nine or ■ ;t*n months he said the M»rqu:s ,of Qutjjmbeiry'had petsecuted Mr Wildu with. tie..utmost (rueliy. The lost ach of pcrsecu'ion occurred ou February 28, 'V.hi.'ii, tbe marqujs left Wilde, at a clubof which both are tntmber', an Ojieu card upon the back if which was wii'tin it vilecpivhit. The porter ■if the club, .npod letding tho noc^, ehclcsed the coi'd in ou cnvcLp'i so that it mifrfct not be Been by: any ttoer ie-saa than Wilde. Ths iletettlro who arnicttd c(.e marqnu ut-D^ver on the morning (if M.-.roh 2 testified tbab whan he approached the marquis and iufonced him of the qoiijjilaiijt upon whici ho was arresledy his lordship said, ". XhiS'h'la been going on for two years."..-, Sir Georgo Le^wie, the Marquis of Queensberry's fQ'icitor, ia his adclrdi-s to the court, swd.ihat vvhen:the.facts bscanvj fully kco'^h it would be foDnd that the marquis had bern acting under fcbeinfluonco of gtent indiguation basad upon abundant provocation. It has not been a s«cret (says thrs despitch) that the reason for the Marquis of Qatseusberry's resantmeut was to be found ia th« iatiaiate relations eiisMng bstween Mr Wide end fjord Alfred Douglas, who;A until the deith .of Lord Diumligg placed'himmext in ouccafsioo, was tho younger son of tbe marquis. Owing to the friendship eXisting between Wilde and Lord -Vfwd fhe. latter..bco/imßi*strapged' from his fathVrjjw'hd.ifteiiDg his position niore acutely by reason.of sundry reports 'Concerning the naiiare of .the relations between Wilde and his son,' which are als.o.common'propertyv conceived a most violent autipnthy to Mr WiWo. :

THE DIAMOND KING BLACKBALLED,

"London Truth of March 6 says that the Pririca : of Wales and tto'Dnke of Fife have resigned 'from-the .-Travclk-ro' Club in cjnsf-quence, of. the action of that' bodyia blackballing Cecil Khodevwho- v»fts-U candidate for membership. Tee.club ia one of;the oldest and most stylish in London. It was esiablinhed in 1819, and is sslcndidly situMel.at 106 Pail Mali. The entrance fee is 30 guineas, and The annual subscription 10 guinea*. It has 800 members, which include the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Fife, and is one of the' raoßt exclusive iiwtitutions iin the metropolis The, club's action in blackballing Mr Rhodes' wss, it is thought, exceedingly ill-advided. In the fi'"t place, he is nothiug if not a distinguished traveler* notwithstanding his lack of) .blue blood; secondly, and most important of all a* f»r »s the olnb is concerned, he is r. particular friend of the Priuci of Wales, and of coarse of tho Dako of Fife, as well as thsir financial adviser. It was under Cecil Rhodes'* auspices tbAt the hoir to the throne and the c'mke invested very extensively and profitibly in South African enterprises, and both have repented -the insult to their mentor.. This of courre meant a serious lons of cash "to the ciub, and the nifmberswe now seriousiy iiortified at their, mistake. Mr Rhndes is the »rchit*cj of bis own fortune, toado in tha diamond fields of Kimbeiley, Sputa; Africi, end is universally kninyn »sj,hn Piijubi.id King.:' His fortune is now.'dyer.£l2,ooo,ooo, and i.is bui^'brain is forming a company Jor. tue devßlbpnisnt of thY Bcchuaraland.r.protectorate snd the countries lyiiiK'ti.the'north. .On« result of'this active" man'«.tffoit,< has been t!ie formation in 1689 of the famoui Imperial British South Africa Company, with..the Dnl;e of Abereom as president, tho Duks of Fife (sDn-iu-law of the Prince of-Wall's) vict-president, and'himself, ss roansging director. The socieiy having a power, almost if notqaitoas abs^lateas that enjoyed by the historical Ea«t India Ccmpsny, this position rendered him the most; powerfnl man in South Afri:a, and in 1890 he succeeded Sir Gordon Spring a? Premier of Cape Colony. He had previously betn a member' of the Assembly and Trensurer-gf neral of the Cape.

A SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT.

The old Socialistic Icarian community, three miles from Combing, lowa, mutually agreed on February 22 that,a division of their'property ■ and a dissolution of their society is (o the best interest of nil concerned, and steps are now being taken to this end. The founder of the Ic&rian. community in the United States was E. Cabet, and its inception dates, back to about 1848, when some 69 Sccialiats embarked from Havre, France, for Texas, and located near the - Red river, Pan county. Internal dissensions and privations diwonrageditb.fi band. Cabel;, who was still in Francs, learned this, sailed for New Orleans, ntd immediately nssntned personal supervision cf the colony. Undt-r hi 3 leadership they migrated to N.iuvoo, 111., which place had just been deserted by the Mormons, after the killing of Jos»ph Srith. Here tho Icarians engaged in various puisuits, and were successful, in their enterprise fora time. Additions to tha society made the total memr.ershiu about 280 parsons. However, internal dissensions created divisions, and in 1856 Cabet and about 170 of his adherents left line remainder and went to St. Louip, Mo., where th« founder of learia died of, apoplexy in the same year. In the meantime another faction had nettled in Adama county, lowa, and were incorporated under tho laws of the State of "Icwia." They have resided there ever since. A common fund supplied the wants of rII, and a common treasury received the savings and earnings of all. A general assembly of all Icarians over 21 years of ege, irrespective of sex, constituted tbe Legislative authority, while the executive nowtr was vested in thteo trustees. After nearly half a century's existence this socialistic experiment is ended. About lOOOdol and 1000 acres of land will be divided smong the present members.