ENGLISH NEWS BY R.M.S.S. CARTHAGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1595, 28 June 1887, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS BY R.M.S.S. CARTHAGE.

[rOTTBB's TELBOEAMB— OOPYRIQUT.)

(Received June £7th, 4 p.m.)

Albany, June 27.

Arrived — Steamship, Carthage, with English mails. She brings the following summary of European news : —

f London, May 27. The disaster announoed by oable at the Paris Opera Oomique boars a great analogy to the terrible fire at the theatre at Vienna In December, 1881. Fortunately the lorb of life was not nearly bo great as then, but the details of tho circumstances bear a great resemblance m (be Imperfect Bt.iroiseß and emergency doors, the narrow passages and the fire brigade arriving too late and, to add to the horrors, the gas being turned off at the main, leaving the panio'strioken audience to grope their way through suffocating futnea. Many lost [their way, groaps of- yoahg ladies and girls m evening dreai beinp found huddled up against looked doors suffocated. Many bodies were so charred as totbn unrecognisable. Many were injured by olambering to balconies and leaping from windows In their frantic efforts to escape. The ihealre company soffored severoly, many being found m Ihu dressing rooms, Twenty- five corpsc3 were found m the bnffpt. Tho Ohambor of Deputies voted £8000 for the relief of tbe sufferers,

Father Keller, an Irish priest, who was imprisoned some time ago was ro'caaed on Saturday from KUmainham, the Appeal Court having decided (ihe Lord Chancellor dissenting) that his commiitil for contempt by tho Bankruptcy Court was irregular. Judge Boyd, taking this decision as a precedent, also released Faihsrs Ryan and S'aVtery, who were committed under similar circumstances to Keller's.

It haa been decldod to establish a Dublin branoh of the Liberal Unionists Union under the presidency of lord Hartlcgton, who warmly approves of the roheme for the strengthening of the oauue of the Union whioh he states has hitherto been Oonßesvativo. J