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  2. NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL. VIA SUEZ.

    The lighter portion of the mails for Sydney by the Royal Mail steamship Siam, which arrived in Melbourne on Monday night, was transmitted overland, and was delivered in ...

    Article : 49 words
  3. SIR GARNET WOLSELEY'S STAFF.

    Sir Garnet Wolsoley's staff will consist of the following officers and gentlemen:—Colonel George P. Colley, C.B., Chief of Staff, with major-general's rank; LieutenantColonel H. Brackenbury, R.A., Military Secretary. ...

    Article : 241 words
  4. ALLEGED ATROCITIES IN FIJI.

    In the House of Commons on the 26th May, Mr. A. Moore asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it was true that in the month of June, 1876, certain native prisoners were, by order of the Governor of the ...

    Article : 251 words
  5. SCENE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER.

    Those present at the Chamber of Deputieson May 24 were witnesses of an extension of party-spirit rarely equalled in violence even in an assembly noted for fierce debated and angry interruptions. M. Paul de Cassagnac, carried out the ...

    Article : 1,161 words
  6. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

    We have had a cold wet Whitsuntide, to the injury of trade and the discomfort of holiday folk. Parliament has had a short recess, and, as a consequence, politics have been somewhat in the background. The ...

    Article : 4,109 words
  7. AN INTERVIEW WITH CETEWAYO.

    A remarkable account of an interview with Cetewayo by one of Weatherley's Horse named Grandier, who was taken prisoner, has been given:— "When the few who escaped from the fatal gorge at ...

    Article : 1,354 words
  8. THE MISSIONARY WAR IN NEW BRITAIN.

    Some time ago the Aborigines Protection Society brought before Sir Michaef Hicks-Beach the conduct of the Rev. George Brown, of Duke of York Island, in making war upon the natives of New Britain, who had been guilty of ...

    Article : 328 words
  9. DEATH OF H. H. THE PRINCE OF ARCOT.

    We (Madras Weekly Mail) regret to announce the death of H. H. the Prince of Arcot. His Highness, as our readers are aware, has been ailing with fever for the last there weeks, but it was only about ten days ago that his illness ...

    Article : 188 words
  10. THE BORDER CUSTOMS.

    The Pall Mall Gazette of June 3 says:—Can anything be much more absurd than the sight of two contiguous English colonies disoussing and bargaining to no purpose to get rid of an inland Customs line which obstructs trade, is ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. PROPOSED CENTRAL AMERICAN CANAL.

    The recently revived proposal to cut througn the Isthmus or Darien a tunnel to join the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was to be discussed at Paris in May. According to the Dailay Telegraph (London), the three plans between which ...

    Article : 587 words
  12. POLITICAL.

    A new Conservative club building was opened in Ardwick, Manchester, by Sir W. Hart Dyke, who was presented with a golden key. In acknowledging the toast of "Her Majesty's Ministers" at the dinner which followed, the ...

    Article : 526 words
  13. IMPRISONMENT OF GREEK PRIESTS IN CYPRUS.

    Two Greek priests having been imprisoned by order of the ritish Commissioner at Pamagusta, their beatds and hair were cut in accordance with prison rule. This occunence has produced considerable excitement, but it is believed that ...

    Article : 63 words
  14. DEPARTURE OF SIR GARNET WOLSELEY TO THE SEAT OF WAR.

    Sir Garnet Wolseley took his departure from London, for Natal, by the 8.30 train from the Paddington station, on May 30. To the train, which was an unusually heavy one, were attached, for the convenience of his Excellency and staff, ...

    Article : 694 words
  15. THE NAVAL FIGHT BETWEEN CHILI AND PERU.

    The following are some details of the Peruvian and Chilian men-of-war which, were in conflict and sank off Iquique. The vessels which took part in the action were— on the Peruvian side the Independencia, and on the Chilian ...

    Article : 537 words
  16. RUNAWAY MARRIAGES.

    Sir,—Clandestine marriages of minors is a thing of frequent occurrence in country parishes; e.g., a young man and a young woman, one or both of them being under age, ride or drive to a town thirty or forty miles from their ...

    Article : 381 words
  17. DEATH OF BARON ROTHSCHILD.

    Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild died at 20 minutes before 6 o'clock on June 3. He was born in 1808, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father, the late Baron Nathan Meyer de Rothschild, in June, 1836. He was first ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

    In the House of Commons on May 27, Mr. Otway asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether any communication had been received by her Majesty's Government relating to the tone of an influential portion of the French ...

    Article : 238 words
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