NEWS BY TUB MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2822, 30 May 1895, Page 3

NEWS BY TUB MAIL.

On the 22nd April a trader brought ti Lowestoft, England, several article taken from the body of a woman brougb up from the deep in a trawling net They proved to belong to Miss Emmi Schtigel, sister of Eugene Schtigel, oik of the survivors of the Elbe wreck. Mi Schtigel was on a pleasure trip to New York when the accident occurred. Thi body of Miss Schtigel was recommitted tc the sea. The Queen has decided to discontinue her early drawing rooms. She held foui drawing-rooms after Easter. The Sun says that the life of the Prince of Wales is insured for £325,000. Easter week was marked by tne production of an unusual number of new pieces at the London theatres. The fourteenth anniversary of the death of Lord Beaconsfield was celebrated throughout Ehgland 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. Mr Sweetman, who was returned to the House of Commons for the east division of Wicklow, in the auti-Parnel-lite interest, will accept Chilteru Hundreds. He will then seek re-election as a Redmondite. Mr Sweetman complains that the Liberals are shelving the Home Rule question. 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 lauded 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, Loudon, 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 Paris to the Chronicle says that the c*se of Mr Robert Sherad, a well known journalist, against Mr, McCarthy, of the British Consulate, for criminal libel, had been adjourned. Sherad 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 Looh Strangford, and not having been beard of are supposed to have been all drowned. There was a picturesque scene in Westminster on Thursday, April 11, when, in the presence of a large congregation, M Royal Maundy ” was - distributed to •eventy-six poor men and to seventy-six poor women, selected from the various parishes to receive the Queen’s bounty. Each woman received |£l 15s and each £2. In addition both men and women received specially coined pennies. EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. The Society for the employment of women in London has put its foot down and now declares that Parliament is governing full-grown female operatives too much, and has ranged women wageworkers with babies and incompetents. They are limited by law as to the hours of labour, aud are not allowed to take any work home with them. Everything is meddled with in the law except the vital matter of wages, and now the society coiues forward and asks Parliament t < omit certain clauses in the Factory Bill just brought forward as vexatious so far as female workers are concerned, inasmuch as they enormously restrict the freedom of adult women to dispose of their own labour, and seriously affect the well-being of women working in different trades. In other words a woman feels competent to do more work, and so increase her wages; she wants Parliament to let her be her own judge in matters of labour, and leave mollycoddling legislation alone. RELIEF OF CHITRAL. A despatch was received at Simla on the morning of April 22, from Sir Robert Low, commander of the British expedition against Umra Khan, confirming the announcement that the Chitral force had been relieved by Colonel Kelly’s advanced force, that General Gatcaore’a column had reached Dir, and that the main body was following rapidly. Regarding their movements the London Chronicle recently said, u When Umra Khan is disposed of, a now ruler jsalely installed and our conditions agreed to, we shall withdraw, leaving only a political agent with a small escort at Chitral, conscious that we have shut the last open door on the northern confine of our Eastern Empire.” A sensation was caused in military and other circles by the discovery by Sir Robert Low at Miankalia of a letter to Umra Khan from a Bombay firm, offering to supply him with every kind of weapon, and enclosing photographs of quick-firing guns. CANADIAN EDUCATION TROUBLES. The Montreal Le Croix, the French Canadian organ of the Catholic clergy, in an editorial, on April 10th, impresses up u all the electors that if they are interested in the settlement of the Manitoba school question, as desired by the Catholic minority, they must vote for the Government in the coming election. Archbishop Landevin, the Roman Catholic head in Western Canada, caused a sensation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on April 14th, by declaring in St. Mary’s Church that heroafter so-called adherents who did not follow the teachings of the Church in the matter of education could not be regarded M members pf the Roman Catholic Church- I fc is regarded that a speci 1 encyclical on the school question had been received from Rome by the Manitoba Bishops, and hence the announcemei-ii by Archbishop Landeuiu. Archbishop FAhe, of Montreal, has issppd a pastoral letter, in which he commands the clergy to keep silent in the pulpit on tho Manitoba school question. LINCOLN’S ASSASSIN REPORTED ALIVE. A dispatch comes from Newark, Ohio, dated April 15th, to the following effect; —“Christopher Columbus Ritter, who arrived from Germany in 1864, and through J. Wilkes Booth’s influence secured a position in Ford’s Theatre, Washington, tells the story of Lincoln’s assassination, claiming that Boston Corbett shot Edward Fuchs, the actor resembling Booth, and not President Lincoln’s assassin. Ritter is well educated, and his character is above reproach. He declared that he assisted Booth to

escape, and that they sailed for Brazil on March 2nd, 1865. He soon left Brazil, ) by appointment in Hamburg seven years 3 ago, and on that occasion Booth gave him b pictures of his children by a South American wife. These pictures have a i strong resemblance to Booth, and are , now in Bitter’s possession. Bitter says • he hoard from Booth last winter, and that - he was then on the South American stage.’ ’ i , LABOUOHBRB ON WILDE. Mr Labouchere, editor of the London i Truth, who has known Oscar Wilde for • years, says he has always regarded him as somewhat wrong in the head. “So strange and wondrous in his mind,” remarks the observant editor, “ when in an abnormal condition, that it would not surprise me if he were deriving keen enjoyment from a position which most people, whether innocent or guilty, would prefer to die rather than occupy. He must have known in what a glass house he lived when he challenged investigation in a court of justice. After he bad done this he went abroad. Why did he not stay abroad'/ The possibilities of prison may not be pleasant to him, but I believe that the notoriety that has overtaken him has such a charm for him that it outweighs everything else. I remember in the early days of the cult of aestheticism, hearing St. George ask him how a man of his undoubted capability could make such a fool of himself. He gave this explanation; He had written, he said, a book of poems in vain. He went from publisher to publisher asking them to bring them out. Notone would even read them, for he was unknown. In order to find a publisher he felt that he must do something to become a personality, so he hit upon aestheticism and succeeded. People talked about him and invited him to their houses as a sort of lion. He then took his poems to a publisher, who, still without reading them, gladly accepted the MS.” WHOLESALE INCENDIARISM. The English police authorities have ascertained that John Barnard, for whose arrest on the charge of wholesale incendiarism a warrant has been issued, is in the United States. His crime, however, is not covered by the extradition treaty, and consequently he is safe from English justice. Barnard is charged with being accountable for some three hundred incendiaries in various parts of the metropolis. The total payment of insurance companies on account of his operations reached £40,000. In one of the fires for which he is held accountable seventeen girls came near losing their lives. Barnard’s accomplice, Alfred Warner Walsh, has been sentenced to seventeen years’ penal servitude for his share in these diabolical operations. A UNIQUE SLEEVE. Worth’s establishment, of Paris, has just created for ah American lady a unique sleeve which represents a stained glass window. The different lights are marked out by raised piping of a contrasting color to the panels, which are exquisitely painted in rich subdued colors, The owner of this remarkable production paid a large sum to have the model destroyed.