SUEZ MAIL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1244, 2 October 1875, Page 5

SUEZ MAIL ITEMS.

Mr John Bright has received the honorary degree of LL.D., from Williams College, Massachusetts.

The members of the Palestine Exploration Expedition have been attacked by a band of Algerians. The assailants were repulsed, but nine of the exploring party wera wounded.

Mr Albert Grant, the unseated member for Kidderminster, lately entertained faOO electors of that town at his great house at Albert-gate. They came up by special train at his expense. Mr Sebastian Nolan, brother of the M.P. for County Gal way, was fired at from behind a wall, while travelling from Greenville to Mount Belle, and received a shot in his sid9. A suspected tenant under notice of eviction has been arrested.

Liter advices from the Cape show that the colonists are beginning to regret the rude and hasty manner in which the Earl of Carnarvon's federation proposals were rejected. The Legislative Council have cordially thanked his lordship, and promised to take into consideration his suggestions. A public dinner was given to Mr Froude, but Ministers absented themselves, and much excitement prevails.

The French Minister of Public Works estimates the damage by inundations in the South of France at 75,000,000fr. -— namely, 50,000,000f. for injury to crop 3, 20.000,000f. for destruction of nouses and moveable property, 3,000,000f. for public works, and 2,000, 090f. for damage to railways. The loss of life is now reckoned at 600 persons, and the houses destroyed at about 7000. The total English subscriptions amount to about £30,000.

m, m- „. August 23rd. The Times ridicules the idea of England being bound to uphold the integrity of Turkey from consideration of the interests of bondholders, and maintains that tha cession of Herzegovina and Bosnia are inevitable, and that the best solution of the Turkish difficulty would be the gradual breaking off of Province after Province from Constantinople.

.«,,,, August 25th. Captain Webb has performed the unparalleled feat of swimming from Dover to Calais. He accomplished the distance in 22 Hours.