MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1939, 22 March 1875, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Lieutenant Irving C. Malign has been officially. 1 appointed aide de-camp to the Marquis of Normandy, the Governor of New Zealand. ■

Go!d. from the Palmer Goldfield has recently been sold in London at £4 2s 6d per ounce. From Fragile the death is announced of the.Elector Frederick William of Hesse, at the, age of seventy-two. The event was sudden and unexpected, the deceased having almost recovered from a dangerous illness. In his last will and testament he divides his persoual property, amounting to £700,000 sterling, among his children. It is affirmed in a telegram from Berlin that last*year seventeen hundred of the Eoman. Catholic clergy were imprisoned or otherwise punished within the limits of the German Empire. The Duke of Norfolk communicates to the Times a letter giving' similar statistics, and complaining bitterly of the ecclesiastical laws. The Glasglow Herald says:—"We ltarri that a meeting of leading Nonconformists in Glasglow, called by circular, has been Jield recently. After some conversation, it was unanimously agreed to adopt measures for the formation of a National Organisation for the Disestablishment and Disendowment of Stato Church in Scotland. A committee was appointed to consider as to the necessary arrangements and to report at another meeting," The Tintern Abbey, sailing recently for Dtnedin, has on board no less, than 1130 living - birds* viz, blackbirds, thrushes, starling, goldfinches, redpoles, of each 100; hedge sparrows,tH.so; linnets, 140; goldfinches, 160.;,- yellowhammers, 170; and lastly, partrides, 110 i These birds have been collected with great care and expense by Mr Bills, .son of the gentleman who has in former years achieved such great success in taking cargoes of birds to the Antipodes. '