Connecticut western news., 1888-08-29
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The New Zealand Government has accept ed the offer of S50,0OO made by Postmaster General Dickinson for the continuance of the mail service for year via San Francisco.
 Rudolph Julius Emmanuel Clasius, tho German physicist, is dead, aged 66.
 The coal miners at Newcastle, N. S. w., have gone on strike. All of the coal mines there are closed.
 The death is announced of Philip Henry Gosse, F. R. S., the Engl sh naturalist, aged seventy-eight years
 The equipment of the eight Ironclads or dered by the French Minister of Marine for the reinforcement of the Mediterranean squadron has been completed, and they will proceei at once to a general rendezvous at Hyeres. Four despatch vessels and torpedo boat will ac- company the ironclads. Admiral Amot will direct the manGuvres.
 Cholera broke out on the Portuguese trans port India while bound from Macao to Mozam- bique, and within forty-oight hours there were thirty eight cases, twenty-four of which proved fatal.
 Three hundred Royalists were present at banquet given in Paris in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Comto de Paris.
 The latest semi-official returns from the Bandai San earthquake i'll Japan says 476 per sons were killed.
 Scotch lawyers report that it will be easy to delay i1e trial of Mir. Parnclls action against the Tines until after the Commission of Inquiry has made it's report, which 1t Is ex- pected will be submitted to Parliament in the early part of the session of lSS9.
 Earl Spencer who is at Hamburg, In reply to a correspondent, cmphatically contradicts the rumor that his views on Irish homo rule arc changing. His views he says, wcro never more strongly in favor of home rule than at present.
 Charles Bradlaugh announces that he is still burdened with debt, and that if he is un- able soon to clear himself by tongue and pen he must relinquish hir career in Parliament.
 Laurence Uhphant the author, who recent ly returned from America, is dangerously ill i'll London. His doctors say he has serious in ternal disorder.
 --Tne German officers who announced their intention to resign from the Turkish army have agreed to remain, the government having promised to promote them all.
 A despatch from India says that the Afghan rising has proved fiasco. The troops have turned against 1shak Khan, declared in favor of the Ameer and deposed the Governor of Maimena, who supported lshak. The Ameers authority has been firmly established in Turkestan.
 A uesIatun rom south Arr1ca says that Dinizulu, the Zulu chief, has surrendered.
 MT. John Bright, who has been ill for some months, convalesces sl ,wly. He is so weak that even bath-chair exercise exhausts him.
 Archbishop Croke has donated tf50 to the fund for defraying the expenses of MT. Par nell in prosecuting his action against the Times.
 Tho force of police detailed during the administration of MT. Gladstone ill 1882 to protect the various members of the Ministry has bet n withdrawn for tho first time since it's assignn en to the duty.
 Canon Sullivan, presiding at the Protes- tant Synod at Tuam, made Q remarkable statement to the effect that the position of tho Irish Protestant Church is more satisfactory than it was before the disestsblshment.
 The New Zealand Parliament has voted to renew the contract with the Spr, ckels line of steamers.
 Reports regarding the wheat crop of Rus sin show that the prospects for summer wheat are promising, and that the yield of winter wheat will reach the average.