ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8214, 23 May 1895, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

(By Telegraph, ) AUCKLAND, May 23. Easter week was marked by a production of an unusual number of new pieces at the London theatres. The fourteenth anniversary of the death of Lord Beaconsfield was celebrated throughout England on April 19th. The use of the primrose was more extensive than ever, but shop windows and fronts of houses where Conservatives were wont to display floral and other emblems in honour of the great Conservative leader were conspicuous by their absence of decoration. The Beaconsfield statue in Parliament Square was not forgotten, but fewer flowers were left there than usual. The Princess of Wales has abandoned her contemplated journey to Denmark, where she was to visit her parents, and instead a family party assembled at Sandringham for the Easter holidays. Mr Sweetman, who was returned to the House of Commons for the east division of Wicklow, in the anti-Parnel-lite interest, will accept Chiltern Hundreds. He will then seek re-election as a Redmondite, Mr Sweetman complains that the Liberals are shelving the Home Rule question. The United Irishman of April 11th learns on the highest authority that Mr John Dillon, member of Parliament for East Mayo, after last election was offered the position of Chief Secretary for Ireland. A report was current in London on April 13th that Lord Houghton is about to resign as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, being wearied out by a continuous bitter social boycott by the landed gentry. Lord Houghton is believed to be an ideal representative of the Queen, but because he also represented a Liberal Government, his official functions in Dublin Castle have been vigorously boycotted by virtually all the gentry of Ireland. Sir Roderick Cameron, the well-known ship owner of New York, and his daughter, were robbed at Victoria station, London, on April 21st, of valuable jewellery and notes and drafts amounting to £IO,OOO. The property was in a tin case that Miss Cameron carried, and which was snatched from her by a thief who escaped in the confusion that followed. Sir Roderick and his daughter were on their way to Paris. A despatch from Paristo the Chronicle says that the. case of Mr Robert Sherard, a well known journalist, against Air McCarthy of the British consulate for criminal libel had been adjourned. Sherard charges that McCarthy publicly accused him of assisting in the Oscar Wilde sensations. Eight servants in the employ of the Marquis of Londonderry, at Mount Stewart, County Down, went out in a boat on April 12th on Loch Strangford and not having been heard of are supposed to have been all drowned.