ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1062, 17 March 1882, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Anti-polygamons meetings are being held all over the States, and in some States the Mormon missionaries are threatened with lynching. The wheat crop in California is a partical failure. Half the population of Port au Prince, Hayti, are down with yellow fever. An explosion occurred on board H.M.S. Triumph, similar to that which was proved to arise from identical causes. A great fire in New York, in Printing House Square, resulted in the loss of two million dollars worth of property. The 'Scientific American' lost 100,000 dollars in models and patents, and other journals suffered severely. Richard Sykes, of Cheshire, England has purchased 45,000 acres of land in the northern part of Dakota Territory, United States, and will settle upon it with a colony of English farmers. An English company proposes to build the largest ironworks in the world on the line of the Chesapeake and Uhio railroad. A Co-operative Supply Company in Canada has failed ; liabilities 200,000 dollars, principally due in England. A circular from Scotland Yard advertises a reward of L 3,000 for the recovery of the body of the late Earl of Crawford which was stolen from the family tomb in Aberdeen. The English Government pay LSOO and the family L 2,500. A rifle match takes place in July i between the > ational Guards of the United States and the Volunteers of Great Britain, to be contested at Wimbledon. Part of the balloon which escaped from England in December has been found in France, Air Powell's dead | body was in the car. The Banking Home of Warburg of Hamburg and Cologne has failed for a sum of LI 00,000. De Lesseps is reported to be seriously ill at Cairo. Garibaldi is lying hopelessly ill at Naples. The Russian Government contemplates the annexation of Corea on the ground of the insecurity of the Russian J possession in the Pacific, and the warlike disposition of China.