ADDITIONAL News by 'Frisco Mail.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7043, 20 June 1891, Page 4

ADDITIONAL News by 'Frisco Mail.

[Per United Press Association J , Auckland, Jane 19. The ' National Press 'of May 13 announced that Lord Wqlseley, now Commander-in-Ohief of the military forces in Ireland, had become a Home Baler, and that be does not. see any, danger from a military point of view in granting Home Rule to Ireland. A magazine exploded on May 15 at Donag- , hadee, near Belfast, Shaking the whole town and breaking many windows. It was sup. posed to be the work of dynami era, and the police are hunting a suspected Amerioan. Fever was raging among the officers and Bailors of the Britißh fleet at Malta on May. 23, and oa the average forty officers and men were sick on board each vessel. The naval hospital was overcrowded with Bick Bailors. Efforts to float a new Canadian loan in Paris proved of no avail, the capitalists not being satisfied with the guarantees offered. Negotiations will t>9 resumed in epring. Bottomley, the managing Director of the Hansards Union, went into bankruptcy on May 2. His liabilities reach £350,000, but he hopes to pay his creditors in full. The Ebv Dr MpLagan, the new Archbishop of York, is a Scotchman by birth, and has more liberal religious tendencies than bis predecessor, Dr McGee, but ib exacting on points of discipline. Intelligence was received from Capetown on May 26 that H.M.S. Magioienne had landed a foroe, and occupied Beira on behalf of the Biitieh Government. . O. A. Fjffe, historiaD, waa charged at the Oroydon Police Oouri with a brutal assault on a boy. The Dean of Westminster, Horace Davy, Sir George Grove and others gave .testimony as to the honorable character of the assailant, and the aoonsed was committed for trial. The removal of Count Munster, German ambassador to Paris, is contemplated on the ground that he has neglected the military 'duties of his office. The German Government is considering the question of forbidding pilgrimages from Alsace and Lorraine to Mount Kouner of Londes and other places in France, on the plea that superstition and ignorance are fostered thereby. The real reason is a political one, for the people of those provinces after visiting France are more irritable and uneasy under their German rulers. ' The ,8.8 Espress of India, eailed from Vanconver on May 9 with' 105 passengers and 1400 ton of cargo for China and Japan. She also came the first through English mail for those countries consisting of 46 bagß. The seizure of a cargo of cattle at Liverpool onboard the steamer Huron from Montreal on May 26 was unjustified,, no trace of pleuro pneumonia being found among the animals, as the Government analyst testified after investigation. Dr Frederick Temple, Bishop of London, reoeived a mysterious letter lately, warning him that an attempt would be made to assassinate .him on Sunday |23rd at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Bishop placed the letter in the hands of the police, who took steps to protect the prelate, but their search for the ! writer of the letter was vain. '