LATE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9839, 27 October 1893, Page 2

LATE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A PAi'KR from Consul Alvarez, at Bengazi, to Lord Rosebery, shows that slave trading on the Mediterranean coast is not extinct jiißt yit. Bengazi, tho capital of the Turkish province of Barca, is a seaport, and well fitted, from its position, to b • a depot of slaves from tho Alrican iuterior Among tho recent instances which he mentions is the shipping of thirteen biavea at a spot close to Bungazi, on a vessol named Bahr Jeriid. " Thia," cays tho British Consul, "ib the first time that slaves huvo been taken on board in such a barefaced mitnner, and I have therefore thought it my duty to call upon the acting Governor to make a thorough inquiry, aud to make the nucoysary arrests should the captain and the office™ ot the Bahr JoJid return hero." Tho Turkish Court at Bengali does not appoir to be wholo hcartud in its anpliuutioa of. the law of 1889 against trading in slaves. In one caso at leatl tho Court haa let off a notorious slavo dealer, while it punishes the woman from whom ho bought his 6lave. , . Lord Randolph Ctiurchill has consented to write a pamphlet on the House of Lords, which will soon be published and diatri buled by the Primrose League.

Sir Charles Gavun Duffy has beei at Wiesbaden einco tho beginning of August, under tho care of tho famous oculist, Dr Pagenstecher, who has removed the cataract f torn tho \etoran statesman's left eye. There is now every reason to hopo that, in three weeks' time, fcir Charles's Big' t will be quite restored — a boon that wi 1 I c felt as a pcrfional joy by hundreds he c, and at the Antipodes. The lire I. volume of the new Library of Ireland, of which bir Churlcß is eJitor, is to appear on Sept. 15, Mr Fbbor Unwjn ia tho publisher. The otht r day, the headmaster of one of the great public schools in London wrote tho follow ing answer to a lady who had written to ack about the social standird of tho boys :—": — " My Dear Madam, — So long as your boy behaves well and his feeß aro regularly puul, no inquiiy will be mado as to his antecedents."

A Boston school inspector, having a few minutes to sparo after examining tho school, put n few questions to the lower form boys on the common objects of tho schoolroom. " Whiit is the use of thnt map ? ' ho asked, pointing to one st etched across tho comer of tho room, and halt a dozjn sluill voices nnsworod in measured aiticulatious, "Please, sir, it"a to hide master's bicycle'

lier Majesty proposes to erect a cairn as a memorial of the marriage of tho Duke and Duchess of York, on the Coyles of Muicic, near BalUter, where there is already one cain,i n, raised by the Queen in ieniembratico of the wedding of tho Prince and Princcbs of Wales On one of these Uoyles is still lo bo seen the Laird's Bed, a f loping rock where Gordon of Abcrgo'dio took refuge when he fled fr. m Biikhall aftor the rebellion of 1?15

Ife was v good fellow, bit his ungrammatical language pained his educated wife scveiely, und she was constantly correcting him Af e v days ago the told hi;n of tho departure of a friend. " Yes," he sai ', "I know he was going, but I did not know ho had gone. 1 ' She looked up at him, so he thought ho had slipped again. " Excuse me," he apologised hurriedly. " I knowed h • was going, but I didn't know ho had wont." Then it was she broke down and wopt,