News in Brief.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 33, 10 December 1886, Page 13

News in Brief.

The Times in a leading article on the slate of Ireland urge? continued firmness, and sa}s that the Btruggle now proceeding will then be shortened. The Arab rebels have retreated a hundred miles from Wady Haifa. The health of bis Eminence Cardinal Melchers has been in a great measure restored by his sojourn at Trent, from whence he has returned to Rome. It i 3 announced that the Dutch Embassy to the Vatican, which has been interrupted since 1869, is now to be resumed. At Inveiell lately, a diamond mine w:s sold for £1200. Itis situated about 12 miles from Inverell. Mining matters are looking better. France is pressing for the evacuation of Egypt by England, or as an alternative, the restoration of the dual contract, Alexander, ex-Prince of Bulgaria, will visit the Queen at Windsor dnring Christmas. Russia has rejected the proposal put forward by Austria of a commission of the Great Powers to settle the terms of union between ftoumelia and Bulgaria. Archbishop Corrigan has created five new parishes in the Archdiocese of New YoTk. An Australian wine company is projected in London with * capital of £150,000. The river Murray is the joint property of three colonies. Th» owneis have yet to agree upon their several rights. A new gold-field is reported to have been discovered near Mount Bartle Fiere. in Northern Queensland. TLe lush Executive have issued a proclamation prohibiting the summoning of meetings called with a view of intimidating the tet auta into refusing to pay rents. A rich tin reef has been discovered four miles from Tingba, near Inveivll. A meeting summoned at Ballymore, Ireland, was prohibited under a proclamation recently issued against meetings called for purposes of intimidation. Persons arc warned not to rush to the newely discovered goldfield near Geraldton (Q ) until official reports are to hand. The British Government have intimated to France that they are not prepared to discuss the date of the evacuation of Egypt by British forces, and they decline any proposal for the internationalisation of the Suez Canal. A considerable quantity of gold appears to have been gathered by those who rem uned to work the I'eetupla field. An Irish-Australian, the inventor of the Brennan torpedo, which has been adopted by the Admiralty, is asking £100,000 for his invention. Pope Liio XIII. has already created seven archbishoprics, twentyfive bishoprics, twenty-one apostolic vicarnate?, and seveu apostolic prefecture^. The Times considers that the naval preparations of Russia indicate her intention to make a bold move shortly. The speeches delivered by the Socialists at the demonstration in London were of a very violent character. Caidiual Manning says the colonies are before the mother country so far as regards the restriction of the drmk traffic. M. Waddington, French Ambassador, is urging Earl Idde3leigh, Foieign Secretary, to give a definite pledge as to the evacuation of Egypt by British forces. The Canadian Admiralty Court has ordered the confiscation of the American schooner Highland Light, which was seized on account ot a breach of the fishery laws.