PROPOSED UNIVERSAL PENNY POST.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7171, 15 September 1886, Page 2

PROPOSED UNIVERSAL PENNY POST.

London, September 12.

The Times to-day published au article which states that Hon. H. Cecil Raikes, Postmaster -General, is at present engaged examining into the question of reducing the postal rates, and further states that he favours the establishing of a system of universal penny postage. LEAPING FROM BROOKLYN BRIDGE

A man named Donovan has just jumped, for a wager, from the Brooklyn high level bridge at New York. He escaped unhurt.

DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE IN THE

WEST INDIES.

News has just been received that tremendous damage has been done by a cyclone in the West Indies, but particulars have not yet arrived. ARCHBISHOP GOOLD'S SUCCESSOR.

It is announced that the Pope will nest week nominate a successor to the late Dr. Goold as Archbishop of Melbourne.

RECIDIVISTS QUESTION.

Sir Graham Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, has written to Mr. Edward Stanhope, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, requesting him to I remind M. de Freycinet, the French Minister, that in the event of his policy of sending recidivistes to Pacific Islands being persisted in, the Australian colonies would be certain to pass laws which would, in all prbbabilityj operate harshly, in order to prevent the influx of French criminals. SUPPRESSION OF BOYCOTTING IN IN IRELAND. ; London, • September 18. General Buller, who has been despatched to Ireland is now travelling through the County Clare, where the agrarian outrages are oi frequent occurrence. GERMAN PRESS OS BULGARIAN AFFAIRS. The German semi-official journals continue to repudidate any obligation on the part of Germany to interfere with the action of Russia in Bulgaria, or to make any effort to prevent a Russian advance upon Constantinople. Some of the German newspapers state that if any protest was made against the action of Russia they would be certain to provoke war. HUNGARIAN PRESS ON THE CRISIS.

The Hungarian leading journals vigorously denounce the tone of the German semi-official press ; and retort that, if Germany has no interest in checking a Russian advance, AusfcroHuugary has no interest in aiding Germany in coercing Frauce. MEETING OF BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY Constantinople, September 13.

The Bulgarian National Assembly meets to-day in accordance with a summons from Prince Alexander. A meeting of the deputies who were nominated by the sovereign baa been held, when it was resolved to combine to avert any foreign occupation of Bulgaria and for the purpose of securing a return of Prince Alexander. RUSSIAN FLEET OFF HOUJIALIAN

COAST.

Tho Black Sea Squadron is still cruising off the Boumelian coast, in the direction of Varua, the leading Balgariau port.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY, Berlin, September 11.

The meeting of M. De Giers and Bismarck was for the purpose, it is believed, of conferring relative to the present situation with regard to the Bulgarian question. Some of the English press comments relative to the coup d'etat are strongly condemnatory of the Czar.