ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 22 March 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

Tlio Convocation mooting of tho Uni* vcrsity of London, hold on tho 15th of January, dcoidod by 242 to 132 to grant degrees to women.

Mr John Froolnnd, vtJJd died Intcly n Nice, bequeathed £4000 to tho Glasgow Wostorti Infirmary.

Tho Pan* Anglican Synod will opon in Lamhoth on July 2nd, and will last four

weeks.

Cliiof Inspootor Clark, having boon ro* instated on full pay, at onoo rotirad on a pension of £185. It is understood that tho Dolootivo Commission will rocom* mend tho omploymont of a suporior class of men, at greatly incroasod pay.

Lord Shaftcshury, Canon Miller, and a couplo of othor loading men, havo retired from tho Socioty for tho Promotion of Christian Knowlodgo, on tho ground that two of its publications: "Bonnoy's Goology," and tho Eov. Brownlow Maitland's" Argumonfc from Prophecy," aro heterodox.

At a mooting of tho Homo Eulo Con« forunco, hold in Dublin lately, it was ro« solvod that tho Homo Bulo party should tnko counsol togotlior, and dceido on their lino of action as a party rospeoting tho Eastern Quostion. Mr Butt emphatically doclarod ho would engage in no war upon the Houso of Commons, and asked it tho llouso imprisoned tho members would tho Conforonco como over and roloaso them. Mr Biggor advocated war wi<h Kussia in tho interest of Irish fartnors.

Xho four liboratod JFoaian priaonors arrivod at Dublin on tho evening of the 18th. Tho streots woro crowdod, nnd ten bauds, with a nnmeious procession

escorted them to tho European Hotol. Several Irish M.P-'s took part in tho proceedings. Groat dopression exists in tho iron (rude. Tho Consott Co., aro blowing out Choir fuarncos* -

Thoro have boon several railway acci* during tho month, but nono attondod tyith serious consequences. f Through a collision botween tho steamer Zomn, plying bctwoon Cork and Bristol, and tho Italian barque Ponsiro, on ttl6 Blii instant, tho latter founder*! with ton of hor crow of cloven. A during attempt nt, murder was mado on n Mr Hamtartfor, a dinmond mor» chant, in somo elmmbers nt tho Hoi born Viaduct on Tuosday. He hnd & Img eon" tainintf £1000 woi-lli of diamonds with him, and tho would-be nmr.lorors tried to kill him with revolvers. Mr Hamburger was soriously wounded. Tho robbors mado off, but without tho diamonds.

An explosion of dynamito destroyed n factory nt Goronn, on tho FranccSpanish frontier.

Tho daughters of tho l«i(o Mr Richard Cobdon, M.P., nro now collecting and arranging his correspondence with a view to its imuicdiato publication.