ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 66, 1 August 1874, Page 10

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

A London letter says that a slave ship, with 275 negroes from Mozambique, bound for Madagascar, was captured by t/xe English man-of-war Daphne, in March. .Fourteen slaves were pi.t on board with only two days' provisions, and the voyage was prolonged to eig it. Their Bufferings are alleged to have been indescribable. Many cbed W agony.

India telegraphic reports relttive to growing crops are favorable. A '• special" to the ' Times ' says fcbe Government continue to furnish assistance to 500,000 natives. There can be no crop in the Testool until December, and the Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them.

The prospect of a settlement of the look-out in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 660 ms very distant. The Norfolk Farmers' Labor Defence Association contemplate an alteration in their rules. A general meeting of Ministers has been called to consider the course to be taken. The • Post' says : "The Public Worship Regulation Bill, now before Parliament, which is intended to restrain ritualists, threatens to lead to a coalition of the High Church Clergy and the Liberal*, which may result in an attempt to replace the present membevs for Oxford University with Gladstone aud Montagu Bernard. Gladstone heads the opposition to the Bill.