Wednesday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 19, 31 August 1883, Page 11

Wednesday.

A serious agitation against the Magyars has broken out in Croatia, • district of Southern Austria. A state of siege has been declared and troops have been despatched to the scene of the diiturbance. Reports are to hand of continuous anti-Jewish rioting in Western Hungary. The troops were called out, and several conflict* with the rioters have taken place. Numbers of both sides have been killed and wounded. A junior teacher of the Wellesley street East public school, Auckland, has inflicted alleged excessive punishment on R. M. Mitchell, leading to the child's illness. Mr. Mitchell states the hoy's hearing is affected from the blows on the head. He intends brimrlug the case before the Board of Education. Much ill-feeling has of late been manifested between the natives of Besancon, a town in the east of France and the Italian workmen resident there, and the discord culminated to-day in a riot, in which a large number of workmen took part. The disturbance, however, was suppressed by the police. Mr. John Thompson writes to us (Ttmarv, Herald) from Alford Forest under date August 24 as follows :— I am glad to report a more favonrable account of the diamond-fields-. At last the real work has commenced on the ground, and not manipulated in Christchurch by speculators. A party of old West Coast diggers are now at work at the Oriental claim. They are shifting a blue clay face 16ft. high, and state they have a very good prospect. They are obtaining timber to carry on a tunnel. Mr. Stanley informed them that Cape diamonds were obtained in the same formation. Yesterday two miners from the Cape arrived, and intend to start work as soon as the weather permits. Mr. Jacobscn, Mr. Webber, and Mr. Webber, jun., arrived yesterday with house and all the plant necessary to work the Pioneer and three other claims they represent. They will have to pack their house about two and a half miles np Taylor's stream. They are engaging men here, and as soon as the weather permits will go to work in earnest, Mr. Jacobsen has all the materiU to thoroughly test the stones, and says he will not leave till he has pure diamonds as big as marbles to send Home. Very large specimens can be seen in the large rock, and he maintains loose ones can be obtained in the