Additional Mail News.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7285, 12 August 1893, Page 2

Additional Mail News.

On the night of July Gth.Sirßaehe Ounard, of Atlantic steamship fame, ati ended bv two keepers, surprised a party of poachers on his grounds at Melville Hall, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and a desperate fight ensued. Sir Bache Cunurd was struck on the head and otherwise mj .ned One of the keepers was wounded s t badly that his life is despaired of. The poachers escaped. Denny Bros., of Dumbarton, Scotland, launched at their yard on July 4‘h a steel t win screw cargo and passenger steamer of 10,000 tons, which was built for the American trade to ply between Liverpool and Philadelphia. Mrs Gression, wife of the president of the company, christened the steamer Ihe Southward. It is claimed that the vessel is uneinkable. She Ims a d >ub!e bottom and the hull is divided by bulkheads into watertight compartments. Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, was taken suddenly ill on July lllh at the Newcastle assizes, and the court hastily adjourned. The American champion swimmer, MeOusker, easily defeated the ex champion English swimmer, Finney, at Blackpool, England, on July 16th, in a match for £2OO a side. McCm-ker was afterward? challenged by the English swimmer Nutt-all to race a mile for £IOOO a side.

The pilgrimage of the youthful Khedive to Stamboul occasion* the greatest aaxie'y to the British Foreign Office. It wit coat him at least 600,000 franca in backsheesh, and be twean the Uultan, who proposes to marry his daughter to Abbas 11. and Ismail Pacha, who i« most anxious to take his grandson under his wing, a g >od many international trouules are likely to be hatched. France has submitted to England end America a proposal to improve and simplify the code of signals Some reform is necessary on account of the increase of speed of vessels.

The Marquis of Bufferin, British Ambassador to Franco, accompanied by his family, arrived in Paris on July 2lst. His displeasure at the conduct of the French press has not yet subsided, but he was ordered back to his post by his Gov rnmont, and brings carefully formulated instructions in regard to France and the difficulty He has exercised great influence among the official classes in Paris, which is one of the common complaints of the French newspapers against him. There are signs that the attacks will be renewed- Concorde of the 2ist urges him to cease being a tool ot creatures like il. Blowitz if be wishes to have the respect to which his abilities and position as England’s representative entitles him.