ARRIVAL

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7174, 18 September 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL

OF THB 'Jh'JRISQO MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEWS. A riiTAL duel is reported to have occurred at Klausenberg, in Transylvania, between a school inspector (M. Varady and the

principal of a teachers' college (M.Kosma). The former fell at the first shot, and Bbortly af^rwards expired. '

M. Le Blond, the French Senator, whose death is announced from Paris, was born in 1812. He. studied for tke Bar, and for some time actedas secretary to the learned jurisconsult Merlin, of Douai. In politics he eaily signalised himself by his devotion to 'the Radical cause. '

A few days ago thero died at Herford, in Westphalia, Wilhelm Qottschalk, the last of the "celebrated Free Corps at J jig ers, known usLutzow's Wild Huntsmen, raised in I'he Prussian \Var of Independence against Napoleon in 1813; he had taken part in every skirmish and action in which the corps was engaged. At Sebastopol and the other war ports of the Black Sea a wire apparatus has been placed in the sea by American engineers to catch and destroy hostile torpedo boatirby elfectric fusees. The construction is kept a secret. The port of Sebaatapol was closed for twelve hours while the apparutus was being laid. The monument to King Victor Emmanuel, unveiled the other day at Genoa, . was executed by the eminent Milanese-- 1 Bculptor Carzaghi, who received for the' work 165,000 francs. The equestrian statue of the King, in the act of saluting the people, about twenty feet high, is - mounted on a pedestal rather higher. On the front of the pedestal is the inscription, "To King Victor Emmanuel IL— founder of the national unity — the Genoese." The, Vienna Neve Freie Pretse reports that a few days ago, while two children, r.aged respectively thirteen and eight years, were pending cattle in an Alpine valley, ..near Wippacb, in the district of Goritz in Ulyria,.a royal eagle swooped down on the tn r and, seizing the smaller of the boys ~ with beak and talons, lifted him from the ground- and tried to carry him off. His Breams. brought to bis assistance bis co'mpanidnjwhb struck the eagle on tha bead with a knptted stick he had, partially Stunnin j it. It endeavored to fly off, but ■his injuries impeded him, and a few minutea liter he was shot by a huntsman. His wings measured nearly lift, across. ' ! SirjJphn and Lady Macdonald arrived'at Port Moody on July 25, having travelled

altogether nearly 3500 miles, and only during the day time. The Premier, as the originator of the Canadian Pacific Railway, bus been everywhere received with great rejoicings, and scores of addressed have been presented to him on the prairies and in the ranching districts along the mountains and by thb Pacific Ocean communities. Lady Macdonald made the journey from the eastern entrance to the

.Rocky Mountains to Port Moody, a distance of 600 miles, through all the passes ,of the mountain ranges, on tho buffer beam of thp locomotive.

There were four steamers at the breakWater on Friday, viz., the Rotoraa, Stella, Gairloob, and Oreti. ; The . s.s. Rotorua, with the 'Frisco mail, crossed Manukau bar at 2 p.m. today, is due shortly after midnight, and proceeds for Wellington immediately after arrival. The Gairloch reportß that the gale oa ! Friday was one of the moat severe experienced on the coast. It took a full two hours coming from Waitara to the breakwater, and that waa in comparatively sheltered water. Mrs. Appleyard desires attention drawn to her advertisement elsewhera. Mrs. Appleyard's qualifications as a nuree would appear to be extensive, she having received her training in Berlin. ' At the Agricultural Society's Show in Sydney, Mr. John Ross, of Paten, New Zealand, takes first prize for hia " Mussulman," a Durham bull, two years and three months old. Ho is the champion of his class, and a perfect picture. The Color/tie Gazette learns that, with regard to Bulgaria, the St. Petersburg Government has mado tho following statement : — "The interests of Bulgaria are always near to Russia's heart, as the Bulgarian Government well knows. The latter has, however, modified her relations to Rusßia in such a manner that the Russian Government regards it as impossible to propose any conditions for a reapprochement unless a formal guarantee is offered, Smce the Bulgarian Government is unable to offer such a guarantee, discussion, could only lead to fresh dinappointments. Russia will attentively follow eventa in Bulgaria, and shupe her course accordingly. The Rhenish organ remarks that the only condition acceptable to Russia is neither more nor less than the deposition of the Prince of Bulgaria. 1 '