ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3967, 25 June 1887, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

* (By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND, June 24. The fact that the Imperial Government was likely to refuse a subsidy to the Canadian Steamship Line, between Vancouver, Hong Kong, and Australia, cranted something like consternation in Parliamentary circles at Ottawa. Subsidy or no subsidy the Canadian Government will not recede from its position. Sir Charles Tnpper left on a mission to Washington to sound Government there on the subject of the trade relationship between the Dominion of Canada and the States.

A Panama despatch of the 16th May, says that in one of the largest cuts water has been struck. Tho amount of rocks and earth taken out of the section referred to cost millions of dollars, all which is rendered valueless, as water has washed from the side of the mountain more than sufficient to fill all the cut. The Rev. Dr McGlynu, the recalcitrant Riman Catholic pastor of St. Stephen's, New York, who refuses to obey the dictum of the Pope, is about to embrace Protestantism. In his lectures, "The New Crusade," he does not hesitate to freely criticise and even satirize the Roman Pontiff. Hewitt, Mayor of New York, is enforcing the Sunday liquor law so rigidly that not only the saloons of that city are closed on the first day of the week, but landlords of hotels are not allowed to serve guests with beer, spirits, and wine. A letter has been written by Andrew Carniyie cf Philadelphia, a Scotchman by birth and a naturalized citizen of the United States, refusing to take part in the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee, and giving his reasons therefor. It has created a great sensation. Carniyie speaks (if the land of his birth and of the English in it, in terms of tho bitterest contempt, and declares that the only day to be observed is the 4th July. Up to May 19th eight thousand persons, including metal workers, miners, and other trades, had struck in the central districts of Belgium, and the troops ore in constant demand to prevent violence, The central crater of Mount Etna was active all the morning of May 31st, and lava flowed in large volume. Masses of stones and cinders were thrown to a great height, and heavy clouds of smoke enveloped the cone of the mountain. DrJanker, Russian explorer, writes to Brussels, under date May 18th, stating he has received a letter from Emin Bey dated December 18th, written at Wadelia. Emin Bey stated he had obtained news and supplies from Zanzibar through an Arabian trader, whom King Mangwa permitted to pass through his dominions. Emin Bey and all his party were at Wadelia and were well, and King Mangwa was willing to allow an Arab to return to Zanzibar for fresh supplies. A terrible explosion occurred in the Udston coal-pit at Blantyre, in Lancashire, on May 20th. Three hundred and twenty miners were entombed in the depths, forty-five of whom were released from the upper seam. The explosion occurred in the lowest seam, and access to this was found to be blocked by debris resulting from tho explosion. Twenty-five miners were confined, and all are thought to be dead. Seventy other men were Bhut in the middle seams, and hopes were entertained of saving most of them. A despatch of May 30th says that sixty-one bodies have been recovered from the pit. Many were unrecognisable and horribly charred and the limbs blown off.