ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1408, 16 November 1886, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Tha packed steamer La Masco’te exploded her boilers on October 5, between Grand Tower 0.111 and Cape Goraradeen, U.R., and was then burned to the water’s edge. Tha list of killed and wounded is very heavy The British steamer Juliet was lost, on October 16, on a reef called Gingerbread ground, off the Bahama Banks, She was bound from Card'ff to New Orleans Mr Greenbaum, lately U S. Consul at Samoa, has boeu forma’ly suspended from office. The tobacco crop in Kentucky is a comparative failure, owing to the ( reva'ence of early October frosts. Yellow fewer, la a more than usually virulent form, has nude its appear mce at Bllonl, Miss , eighty miles distant fr m New Orleans across Lake Pontoalri, and also at Mlsslsippi City. A father and three sons, named Dakin, owners of the colliery of Newb 1.1, Leicester, England, were snff cited by choke damp on October 3s Many colliers were subsequently reecaed from other parts of the mine. Mrs Leader, wife of a bu l chor doing business at Camberwell, London, a quarrel with her husband on Oct. 16, left home, taking her children with her. Sho went to the Thames and threw herself and her children int > the water. Th>y were all drowned with the exception of one cbi’d,. Mr G. A. Griffio, United States Consul at Sydney, N.S W., arrived at San Fran cisco, per Alameda, on the 2nd. and lef-, for Washington on the 4*h He ; omes, as he said in oonversat-ou, on leavs of absence for sixty lays, during which time he will make it his buslnes to imoreas on the authorities at Washington the importance of some suggestions which he has already made on the subject of tha tariff, which would permit an Interchange of commodities between America and Australia. especially in Pacific Coast woods, which are much prized in the Colonies for building purposes. The tariff question however, will have to be referred t > the Imperial Government, as the Colonies have no power to treat with a foreign Government TBOUBLES IN WALES. The cause of the Land League has just won its first victory in Wales, A farmer’s goods at Huthen were distrained upon for rent His horse was sold for £3, and sold to the tenanb The sale came to a standstill. The auctioneer and baib'ffs withdrew pelted with rotten eggs. Then followed an indignation meeting of farmers. Wales is now taking a step from tithes to rent.

RIOTOUS FISHERMEN,

The fishermen’s r'ot at|Ramsgale is an ugly affair. It is well known that English fishermen suffer much from loss end destruction of their nets by French and Dutch rivals. The latter use an implement known as “ the devil,” which is as harmful as the torpedo. The riots at Ramsgate rose partly from the circumstance that an Englishman fancied that he saw his net in a French boat and partly fr m the ill feeling engendered by the recent detention of English boats at Havre. Tbe French Ambassador is already demanding explanations and punishment of the Kamsgate rioters, and the bellicose newspapers of Paris are indulging in lofty adjectives. RUSSIA AND THE EAST. A traveller from Bokhara, who has reached Peahawur, in the north of India, reports that Russia has com listed the Merv and Oxus railway to within five stages of Saraks. Russia intends to establish a military cantonment for 30,000 near Bokhara, Russian officers, disguised as merchants, are actively engaged in inspecting the passages to India The traveller also reports that the Czar is displeased with the Ameer of Bokhara for refusing to enlist Russians among his troops. Sir Edward Thornton’s recall from Constantinople after so recent an appointment causes much gossip. His misf rtunes began by his unhappv selection of a moment for presenting Lord Salisbury's note concerning the Armenian reforms. The Russian Ambassador made much of this. Tbe Sultan has since made Sir Edward's position impossible. His Majesty treated him with marked discourtesy on his leaving.