... The Recent Disturbance at Tonga. v i THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINA. TION OF MR BAKER. The report of Sir C. Mitchell, High Com- missioner for the Western Pacific, on the recent disturbances in Tonga and on the affairs of the islands, is issued this morning as a parliamentary paper. Sir Charles refers at length to the dif- ferences which appear to have commenced in 1874 between the Wesleyan Conference ...

... PECULIAR CHARGE OF LIBEL. Disgraceful Revelations. At the Maryiebnne police-court, on Saturday, efore Mr Cooke, Ernest John Gater, a tailor, of Woodstock-street, Marylebone, appeared before Cooke, to answer a summons charging him with having libelled Elizabeth Paddick, his mother-in-law, residing at Little Mary- eboije street, Mr Hillyard was for the complainant, and Mr Freka Palmer defended.— ...

... TERRIBLE VENDETTA IN KEN- TUCKY, A Series of Twenty Murders. [TIMES TELEGRAM. I PHILADELPHIA, Thursday.—A Kentucky ven- detta. has occurred betwpen the Tolliver family in Rowan county, which has resulted in twenty-one murders. Tolliver, with his party, being accused of murder, the sheriff and a posse of two hundred men went to arrest them at Morehead, the town being entirely surrounded. ...

... THE PAUPER AND THE QUEEN. A Sheffield pauper named William Day. a man of superior education, who has seen better days, addressed a letter of congratulation to her Majesty, saying he was an apprentice with Messrs Pritchard and Lloyd at Shrewsbury, when as a Princess she visited their establishment 55 years ago, and be saw the processions at her coronation and marriage. Sir H. F. Ponsonby has ...

... An accident of a serious nature happened yesterday to a man named Thomas Reynolds, a native of Nailsea, near Bristol, who Was employed at Mr Henry Lewis's saw mills. The unfortu- nate man was encaged in removing a timber pile, when, by some means, he got crushe'l between soma timbers. When extricated it was found that both his legs were broken below the knee. The injured man has bee it removed ...

... ANOTHER BATHING FATALITY. While Mr W. H. Baldwin, of Liemore, was bathing in Framore Bay this morning, he was carried out by the current, and despite of a gallant effort at saving him, be was drowned. Deceased was for many years secretary to the Lisraore Agricultural Society, and only this week superintended its annual show. ...

... PROPOSED PURCHASE OF NEW- PORT WATERWORKS. At the monthly meeting of the Newport Town Council, this day, it was decided to authorise a deputation of the parliamentary and improvement committee to confer with the Newport Water- works Company with a view to the provisional purchase of the undertaking. It was also deter- mined, should these negotiations fall through, to proceed with the petition ...

... ACCIDENT TO THE NEW GUNBOAT. A Belfast correspondent telegraphs :—The new gunboat Lizard, which was built here. was being towed hence to Devonportby H.M.S. Valo- rous when, through some disarrangement of the machinery of the latter, the vessels came into collision. The Valorous struck the Lizard on the starboard side, carrying nway a portion of her bulwarks and causing other damage. The Lizard ...

... the Queen's Bench to-day, the action brought y Mdme Cornelie D'Anka against Lord Lonsdale to recover damages for an alleged breach of venant in connection with an engagement t IIlay in the Violet Cameron Oomedy Compa alil fconcluded. Farther evidence having be l ven for the defence the jury found a verdict for ^kintiff for £ 125, and his lordship gave judgr 0t that amount with costs, and ...

... LORD HADDINGTON. Lord Haddington, who met with a serious acci- dent while hunting with the Berwickshire hounds five weeks ago, was able to leave Langton House, near Duns, to-day, for Tyninghame House, East Lothian. ...

... A GERMAN STEAMER TOTALLY WRECKED. A cablegram from Lloyd's agent at Valparaiso states that the German steamer Hermia has been totally wrecked. All the passengers and crew saved. The steamer was bound from Hamburg for the west coast of South America. ...

... SINGULAR CASE OF BLOOD- POISONING, From Shetland is announced the death, nndet singular and melancholy circumstances, of Mr William Lawrence, who has acted as reader and catechist at Fair Isle since 1874. Some time ago, having a good deal of medical skill, be operated on a festered finger with which one of the islanders was troubled, and brought the case to a successful termination, but ...