LATEST MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1026, 20 August 1883, Page 3

LATEST MAIL NEWS.

[by telegraph.] Aucklat d, To-day,

Mr O’Donnell’a resignation in connection with the Parnell Irish party has been i accepted without expression of regret. Janes Carey, the informer, was adjudicated a bankrupt after his departure. :lt js alleged he had executed fraudulent ; • deeds conveying his property to relations. . An expedition has been organised in ..Paris to drag the bottom of the Red Sea . and the Bitter Lakes for Pharoah’a . chariots and treasures engulfed there.

■ The Abb6 Moigne is the promoter of the expedition, and 750,000 francs has been 1; subscribed. i; A meeting of the Postal Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce was . held to agitate for the colonies entering the Postal Union. . The middle belt of the State of Minne-

sota (U.S.) was visited by a tremendous cyclone on July 21st. Six were killed and a hundred injured. The damage to tbe crops is estimated at 600,000 dole. ■> ~ The enquiry into the collision between the Wsitara »rd Hurunui blamed the cap- . tain of the Waitara for leaving his ship in -charge of the second officer, but did not deal with his certificate. . The 'Steamer Doric, chartered by the

New Zealand Shipping Company made an excursion trip to Gravesend, six hundred i miles. The Duke of Sutherland, Mr -. Coster and others were amongst the guests. The trip was a complete success. The handsome fittings and illumination by ■ the Swan electric light were greatly ad- ' mired.

i .A destructive fire occurred at the i Brooklyn docks. Three vessels were ..burned to the water’s edge. Capt, Grove, wife and three children and three sailors . also lost their lives. The damage was a million dols.

..Torn Thumb died of apoplexy. Mace and Slade, the pugilists, returned to New York. Slade", after fighting Mitchell, challenged Sullivan, the champion of America.