ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1256, 23 October 1884, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Michael Haymanson, well known in Dunedin, died in London on September 3rd. ' . The European Mail says that it noteworthy that the Orient steamer Lusitania, from Sydney on July 19th, and the New Zealand steamer Ruapehu, from Lyttelton on July 27th, arrived in Plymouth Sound within an hour of each other on September 9th. The former comes via Suez, the latter via Cape Horn. The comparison is a startling one. Eight more days from Sydney than from New Zealand, notwithstanding that the Oanal route was adopted by the former. A, stained glass window in memory of the late Sir Geo, Arney, Chief Justice of New Zealand, has just been planed in the south transept of the Salisbury Cathedral, David Dugan has just died in Dublin, He took part in the rescue of Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, and figured in the rising of 1867. His friendsin Dublin are arranging to give him a public funeral. The Bishop of Nelson has appointed the Bev. T. Bussel, 8.A., late of St, James’, Leeds, to the Incumbency of St. John’s Church, Westport. Isabella Stuart, Countess of Belbanie, who boasts to have the blood of the Pretender in her veins, and has for years disappeared from Society, is the Mother Abbess of a Polish convent at Barale, in Boumania. She is at present in England. The list of English cricketers who will accompany Shaw to has undergone somewhat important alterations. The team, as it stands at present, is as follows Ulyett and W. Bates, Shaw, Scotton, Shrewsbury, W. Flowers, Barnes, W, Atwell, W. Gunn, M. Eeid, J. Lilly white and B. Pilling, Sir John Hall has attended a meeting of the British Association at Canada.

The English Admiralty have resolved to re-commission the Nelson for a farther term of service on the Australian station. The present crew of the Nelson will be relieved by a new one of 500 blue jackets and Royal Marines, taken from the naval establishments of Chatham and Sheerness. The Nelson will pay off in January next, and she will then hoist the penant of Rear-Admiral Tyron. The troopship Tamar will convey the new crew of the Nelson to Sydney. It is rumored the change in rank of the command will be J accompanied by an alteration in the

headquarters of station, a change in which New Zealand would not be uninterested. The wreck of the Lastingham has caused a crowd-out of cargo to a prodigious amount in the .Ruapehu from a duplication of orders for goods lost. For some time the Ruapehu has been refusing passenger’s as well as cargo. Telegrams have been received from General Gordon complaining of the slowness of the authorities in sending him relief.

A heated turn commenced in New York on Sept. 10 with disastrous consequences. The temperature ranged from 75 to 100. Nine deaths occurred at the Bellevue Hospital on the 10th, and 25 on the 11th, all irom heat. Business had to be suspended to a great degree, and the street car routes were lined with dying and dead horses. In Pittsburg, where the thermometer reached 09, the public schools were dismissed. In Philadelphia many persons died from heat, and at Washington all who could get away left. The Journal de fat. Petersburg of September 16th said the meeting of the Czar and Emperors of Germany and Austria at that date denominated the whole political situation, and indicated a policy of peace. In reviewing the troops on the 16th, the thiee Emperors wore Russian uniforms, and marched at the head of their respective n gimen+s, of which each was honorary colonel. They formally saluted each other in pissing. The farewell at the frontier on the 7th to the Emperor of Germany by the Cz.u was of a most affectionate character. The Emperor frequently kissed the Czarina and Grand Duchess Maria.

A special from London of the 23rd Sepl. says a curious political rebellion is now in progress in County Mayo. That county is now represented in the House of Commons by Mr John O’Connor Power and the Rev. Isaac Nelson. Mr Parnell desires these men to contest the county again at the next general election, but a number of Mayo Nationalists object to bis dictation, and propose quite a different programme. They have decided no longer to submit to Mr Parnell’s autocratic sway, and will nominate candidates of their own election. Their choice has fallen on Captain Boycott, who was recently the most execrated man in Ireland, and Mr John William Nally. The growing popularity of Boycott is one of the most curious facts in current Irish history. The local Parnellites ridicule the idea of any successful opposition being possible in the county.