Additional Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 136, 19 November 1884, Page 2

Additional Mail News.

(Per Mail Steamer at Auckland.)

(UNWED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . Londos, Oct. 24c. Sir W. Macarthur is about to retire from political life. Tlie Europeau Mail nays the building of steamers to take the place of the sailing- vessels now used for transporting criminals to New Caledonia "Would seem to shew that the French Government is bent upon carrying out the Reeidiviste policy. By the collusion of a confidential clerk,/ cashier, receiving clerk, and poiler, the great dry goods firm of Constable and Arnold, New York, have been robbed of over 2,000,000 I dollars. The confidential clerk, Peddev, has invested all Ms stealings . abroad. ■ ; ■•:.'./• The indications are that the completion of the pedestal of Barthold's statute of Liberty, presented by the French Government to the United States, will bo .delayed for want of funds. 325,000 dollars are needed and cannot be raised. The statue has proved a white elephant. . Governor Cleveland, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, was furiously assaulted m the streets of Albany, ' first by a man named Boone, and afterwards at the Executive Mansion by Boone's wife, because he refused to pardon Bryan B. Fairfield, their relative, sentenced to two years' imprisonment m Auburn Penitentiary for manslaughter. The affair oansed great excitement at first, as it was thought to have political significance, but the Boones, as well as the prisoner, were proved to be a family of "cranks." The latter had already been transferred to an insane asylum. A great political trial was finished at St. Petersburg on the 13th October. It was conducted privately, and all the officers of the army implicated were sentenced to death. Six others were sentenced to Siberia, including the woman Vera. On the occasion of the laying- of ihe keels of ironclads at Sebastopol on 15th October, the Czar telegraphed to Duke Alexis:—" l rejoice at the new binh of the Black Sea" fleet. God grant that the spirit of the old fleet may revive and render good service to the Fatherland." The St. Petersburg Chief of Police has Ordered the proprietors of all hotels, restaurants, and similar places of resort to remove portiaits of the Czar from their public rooms on the sjround that disrespect is sbown them by the piibUo,