BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3679, 30 April 1883, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

rSpecials to Press Association.] I DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN RUSSIA, j THE SALISBURY CATHEDRAL EXPLOSIVE REPORT A HOAX. HEAA'Y SNOAATALL IN AMERICA. THE HEALTH OF THE QUEEN. THE FREEEDOM OF THE PANAMA CANAL. DEATH OF A FRENCH NOVELIST. THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. ILLNESS OF THE QUEEN OF GASCARIRISH EMIGRATION TO CANADA. ENGLAND PROTESTING AGAINST TILE SULTAN'S MIS-RULING OF ARMENIA. THE DYNAMTTE POLICY OF THE IRISH CONVENTION. THE POPE SUMMONS ARCHBISHOP CROKE TO A CONSULTATION. PROBABLE SANCTION OF BRITISH GOA T ERNMENT TO THE ANNEXATION OF NEAV GUINEA. GROUNDING OF A P. AND 0. STEAMER IN THE THAMES. SCHEME FOR FACILITATING TRAFFIC THROUGH THE SUEZ CANAL. LONDON. April 20. News is to hand from Katawanoffski a town on the River Ufa, Russia, of a disastrous fire that had taken place there, resulting in the destruction, of no less than GOO houses, besides a large quantity of other property. | Further intelligence in regard to the reported finding of a box containing explosives in the vicinity of Salisbury Cathedral tends to show that the affair was merely a hoar. April 25. ' A heavy snowfall in tho state of AVyoming has completely blocked the UnionPacific railway, and iv consequence the homeward-San Francisco mails have been delayed. The Queen's medical' advisers fear that some months will elapse before Her Majesty Avill have completely recovered from the effects of her recent accident. In tho House of Lords, Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated that ho considered it premature to negotiate with the American Government respecting' the freedom of the Panama Canal. ' ' " The French Chamber of Deputies has acceptect'M. Tirard's" scheme for the con- | version of the -5 per cent. Rentes in now securities, at 4i per cent. Jules Sandeau, the well-known French novelist, is- dead ; aged 72. April 20. A collision, attended with serious loss of life, took place iv the English Channel at midnight on Tuesday between the ship British Commerce, 1417 tons bound from London to Melbourne, aud the ship County Aberdeen, ISGS tons, from Calcutta to Loudon. Tho British Commerce Avas cut, down below the water line, and sank almost immediately, only Captain Jones and the boatsAvain being saved. These 'two managed to clamber on board the Aberdeen. The number of lives lost was twenty-five. The County Aberdeen Avas severely damaged, and Avas toAAX-d into Portsmouth to undergo repairs. The accident is attributed to the weather, Avhich Avas very thick at the time. Both vessels had general cargoes. The Queen of Madagascar is seriously ill, and not expected to recover. The Canadian Land Companies offer to i

locate ten tbousamd Irish families in that country, if the English Government agree to lending a million of money. Earl -DufEerin has been instructed to strongly protest against the Sultan's misruling of Armenia. At the Irish Convention in Philadelphia many delegates refrained from censuring the dynamite policy. Archbishop Groke, of Cashel, has been summoned to Rome to consult with the Pope in reference to the condition of affairs in Ireland. It is believed in official circles that the British Government will sanction the annexation of New Guinea by Queensland. It is announced that the Queensland loan will be placed on the market in the first week in May. April 27. The P. and O. s.s. Indus, outward bound to Australia, grounded in Barking Reach, on the Thames during a fog, but it is expected that she wilt be floated off shortly. Lord Granville has advised a deputation that waited upon him as to the nature of a scheme for doubling the facilities of traffic through the Suez Canal, that the Government is at present consulting Lord Duft'erin on the subject. At the Irish Convention now sitting in Philadelphia, the Dynamite faction is gaming confidence. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. [Reuters Telegrams.]