SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1248, 30 October 1875, Page 15

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

At the final meeting, the Cospatrick Be* liet Fund balance of £542 waa distributed amongst aeveral applicants. Tbere is a schism between Whalley and Kenealy, the former refusing to accept the political leadership of the latter. Tn ere has been a marked decrease daring the paifc year in emigration from the Clyde to Canada, U.S.

Governor Mnsgrave, of Rnnth Australia, has been created a Knight Commander of St Michael and St George. G«vernor Weld, of Tasmania, and Dr Hector, of New Zealand, have been created Companions. The P. and O. Oomp<my have purchased two new *J-«>»tner» of 3000 tons each, and have oue bnikhug, of 3400 tons. A terrible railway accident has occurred on the Midlaad line, near Skipton. Seven lives were lost.

The Alexandra Grain Warehouses, Gloucester D»cks, have l-een de«tioyed. Ar.a fire at Ryu (fm Rusjia, three hundred houses were burut.

Complaint* have been raised about Col, Baker's sentence. Tbe question of his military status was settled by the Queen signing his dismissal. Tbe Queen has sent a letter of sympathy to Miss Dickenson.

Seventeen lives have been lost and twenty injured by an sxplobion aboard a Spanish steam boat.

KoneaJy's boo lias nent a challenge to Major Diukgon, on account of his speech in Hw Howe of Conwaonj on Colonel Baker's

case. At the suggestion of the Speaker, Mr Disraeli, and the Duke of Cambridge, to whom the matter was referred, the letter was treated -with contemptuous silence. Foot and mouth disease is rapidly spreading in England and Ireland. Meanwhile stringent regulations threaten to stop importations. Meat has already advanced in price. The public are growing anxious. Birmingham is manufacturing war material for Germany, France, and Japan. Alexander Collie is supposed to have fled to Buenos Ayres. The cost of Moody and Sankey's London mission is over £28,000, slightly more than the receipts. Lily Agnes won the Ebor Handicap. Tha military manoeuvres in Germany are so severe as nearly to equal a small cam. paign. Several cases of sickness and death have occurred. The French Press calls for a modification of the Government programme. M. Thiers declines to enter the Senate, preferring the Lower House. Very heavy rains have occurred in India, causing great floods and loss of life, as well as damage to property, along the Delhi and Punjaub line. t Obituary.— M'Lure, Boyle-Bernard (dramatic writer), Sir Edward Ryan, Prince Charles of Bavaria, Professor Smith (of Dublin), Lord Grantly (a Waterloo hero), Wm. Bennett (the veteran actor). The exports to New Zealand amount to £283,750. The Indian Financial Statement was made by Lord George Hamilton on the 9th August. An amendment, proposed by Mr Smollett, condemning the policy of borrowing large sums each year without regard to income, was negatived by 66 to 21. A motion by Mr Fawcetr, censuring the Government for dsf erring the Indian Budget to the close of the session, was also negatived. A scheme for army organisation will engage Mr'Gathorne Hardy's attention during the recess. The Prince of Wales's visit to Sheffield was distinguished by success. The Prince and family left for Scotland. The Duke of Edinburgh has been handsomely entertained in Russia by his fatheruvlaw. The Duke of Connaught arrived at Berlin after visiting the Grand Duke of Baden, and haß been promoted from the rank of captain to a major in the Seventh Hussars. The King of Italy has presented the Queen with six Italian ponies. The statue of the late Lord Mayo was unveiled at Cockermouth. Subscriptions have been started by the working men to erect a statue to Mr Plimsoll near the East India Docks. _ Cardinal Manning, in receiving a deputation of Maltese residents in London, delivered an address, touching on the warlike # tendency of Europe ; and a probability of sanguiuary war from which the Papacy would emerge with renewed power. The statement that Cardinal Manning was admitted to the Royal circle, and introduced to the Queen at a garden party, is denied. There are dissensions among the Magna Charta associations throughout the country. The Leicester branch is unable to o'otiin'a satisfactory statement of the appropriation of iss contributions, has repudiated Dr Kecealy, and denounoed him as violent, dictatorial, tyrannical, and avaricious, and the Englishman as the most infamous paper ever published. The Committee threaten to prosecute Dr Kenealy for slander.