GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 174, 11 March 1873, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN. BV THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL, . - . Which arrived in Auckland on March 4. "fl take the following items of news from t] telegrams in the Dunedin Star: — London, Jan. 30. It is reported that some American banke in London loaned Napoleon £200,000 to f cilitate a meditated coup, and that since \ death the money has been returned. A Bill to reduce juries to seven, save cases of murder and treason, has been read second time in the House of Commons. The Marriage m ith a Deceased Wife's Si ter Bill has passed a second reading in ti House of Commons by a large majority. Feb. 2. The British Isles were visited last night 1 the most violent storm ever experience! Snow fell to an extraordinary depth in tl city and country. This morning it was si inches deep in the streets of London. Trafi has been almost entirely suspended. Onrn buses and cabs ceased running, and scarce! a vehicle of any description was to be see in the streets. A gale raged with great fui all round the English and Irish coasts. Man wrecks are already reported, and there hi been fearful loss of life. An accident occurred to-day on the Londc and North-Western Railway, at Stafford ; s veral people were killed. Feb. 4. The proprietors of several collieries j South.Wales, who announced their intentiq to import Chinese from California to tat the place of the strikers, received anonymon letters threatening assassination. The weather during the past has been intensely cold. One hundred pe sons were frozen to death in England durii that time. Berlin, Feb. 2, The Vessiche Zeitung demonstrates that tl Russian forces in Central Asia are stroc enough to defy any attempt on the part of tl British to check their progress, and that Enj land is powerless. It says Russia is on! waiting a false move on the part of England, Washington, Feb. 3. In the Senate, amotion to lay on the tab: Webb's Australian Steamship Subsidy Bil made for the purpose of killing the measm was agreed to by 33 to 31. Athens, Feb. 3. A terrible earthquake occurred on tit Island of Samos, causing great destructi of property and loss of life. New York, Feb. 3, Greelev left property by will to the amour of £206,000, and Mrs Greeley £l9,ooomore. In the Senate, a Bill was introduced, an immediate ' consideration asked, for the ii crease of the salary of the President! 50,000 dollars. I A Calcutta despatch states that the city> | Hohuree, in the Scinde territory, was near! ! destroyed by an earthquake. The calami; i c une with such suddenness that escape w impossible. On the first alarm, the inhal rushed from their houses into the street! where many were killed by falling timber an buildings. Upwards of 500 persons are sup posed to have perished. The earthquake \n felt many miles away. The inhabitants i Hohuree, after the tirst consternation, fle to the mountains.

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL. A shower of frogs fell at Flemington, nea Melbourne, recently, during a storm. The Spiritualists of Christclnirch have pri senteel Mr Peebles with a purse of 20 sort reigns. The Bruce Herald asserts that at Catlii River there is a female child, one week old who weighs 331bs. avoirdupois. At the Newmarket Cattle Show, Auckland on Feb. 25, live bullocks died of sunstrokj Eleven were restored with difficulty. - m A late telegram says : —Krohmann's (II bavoora) has retorted another cake of gol making 14,000 ozs. for the present crushing. Reay, the jockey, has been disqualify from ever riding or running a horse again 6 the Dunedin race-course, during thepleasffi of the Dunedin Jockey Club. During a heavy thunderstorm recently! Bathurst, the lightning killed a race-hors named Tempest while out exercising. Tin groom was rendered insensible for some time A Ram Fair was held in Christchurch ( Feb. 27, and was highly successful. Tte were upwards of 1000 entries, and nearly & were sold. Some Leicesters brought £42 lft each. Dynamite, according to the Bendigo Ads tiser, is liable to explosion from concussion That journal reports: —"An accidents curred from a dynamite explosion at Koen Pioneer, which might have been attend* with very serious results. A hole charg* with the agent was fired in the morning, at a large quantity of stone was broken, but n? sufficient to clear to the bottom of the h<w and in the course of the clay the men fom j it convenient to continue boring at the sal hole with the view of putting in anoi 'charge. But there was a small quantity 1 dynamite remaining from the previous m at the bottom of the bore, and as the ntf were at work with their drills it expW l with great violence, carrying the drill a«| which passed between two men, who fonjj nately and narrowly escaped. Had the art struck anyone he must have been install* killed ; as it was, one of the miners * knocked clown, and received a severe bloffj the stomach. It will be necessary for,* 1 future safety of miners to avoid boring i" : hole which has once been charged, cyen. . though, as in this ca3e, th« charge have taken effect."