NEWS BY THE MAIL

Temuka Leader, Issue 2821, 28 May 1895, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL

There was great excitement during the polling on April 25th in East Wicklow, us a result of the action of Mr Sweetman, who has represented East Wicklow as a follower of Mr Justin McCarthy since the General Election of 1892, in seeking reeloction as a supporter of Mr John Redmond and an independent policy. At a meeting on the 24th of Mr Sweetman’s supporters at Arklow, a crowd attacked Mr T. J. Troy, a local leader of the i'arnellites. A woman threw a stone which destroyed one of Mr Troy’s eyes. The >• nglish football season is closed, and *he Westminster Gazette publishes its annual “ butcher’s bill,” which shows that there were 20 deaths from injuries received on the football field, and that 150 legs, arms, and collarbones were broken, besides many cases of concussion of the brain and spine, paralysis, knee-caps split, and hundreds of minor casualties.

The Times of April 16th says that Professor Flinders Petrie, in a lecture delivered before the Edinburgh Royal Society, declared that the recent excavations made in the district thirty miles north of Thebes pointed to the existence three thousand years before Christ of a race quite distinct from the Egyptians. The paper comments editorially on the importance of the discovery in transforming Egyptian history and encouraging excavators in Greece and elsewhere.

There were few noteworthy May Day features in London. There was the usual cart horse parade, and so-called Democrats and Labourists made a demonstration in Hyde Park during the afternoon. Reports received from the Continent show that work proceeded a» usual.

“ Shakespeare week ” at Stratford-on-Avou opened on April 22nd with the performance of Goldsmith’s “ She Stooped to Conquer.” The town was crowded. Many Americans attended. The committee appointed to raise funds for the purchase of the residence of the late Thomas Carlyle, in order to fit it up as a Carlyle museum, have already collected £1722, and it is expected that the purchase will bo completed in May, and that the museum will bo open in June. Carlyle’s writing desk was among the ai tides recently auctioned off at the sale of belongings of Oscar Wilde. It brought £l4 Ms, and was probably secured by one of the many Americans in London.

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