Saturday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 23, 2 October 1885, Page 9

Saturday.

Anothei victim to cram was reported to the Auckland Education Board at its last meeting, m the d< a h of a district scholar, Miss Ann Biowning, aged 12 years. Tne young la/iy won a scholarship last year. Immediately after passing her annual examination thi>> year she was attacked by biain fevir and carried off. Arrangements are proceeding in the matter of competing by road carnage against the railway for shipping goods from the BlufE to Invercatgill. The County Council have let the work of renewing culverts on road in view of the traffic, and as the road is a sound one, and little used hitherto, the combination of merchants to oppose the high iailway rates are sanguine of being able to bring goods cheaper than by rail. Numeious offers to do the cartage have been leceived.

Mr. Porteral, a dairyman at Auckland, was attacked by a large dog, which caught him by the turoat ami lorced him backward to the ground, where he was seveiely bitten. He struggled for 15 minutes, until the dog. foaming and biting, f-'ll dead, and Porteral. in an exhausted staie, was removed to his r<_sideace. The owner of the dog has not been discoveied. It is announced that Geimany and v pain have mutually agreed to accept the mediation of his Holiness the Pope in the settlement of the difficulty which has arisen as to the occupation of the Caroline Islands.

24,000 Christians have been massacred in Aaam. Ttie Bulgarian National Assembly, wbich is sitting at Sofia, has vottd 5,000.000f. for the purpose of sustaining the action of Prince Alex inder. and a state of siege has been declared throughout Bulgaria. Troops despatched by the Sultau to rebtore order nave appeared at Pmlipopolis. England has ptopo^ed to the European Poweis that matters in regard to Tuikey and the levoluuonaiy Statesshall be restored to the xta-tux quo, and a conference on the s-übject h-is been virtually arranged. The Turkish Ministry h«s been remodelled. K-iimil Pasha has been appointed Giand Vizier and President of the Council in place of Said I\ihha.