LONDON WOOL MARKET STEADY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3720, 18 June 1883, Page 3

LONDON WOOL MARKET STEADY.

APPALLING CATASTROPHE.—ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY CHILDREN CRUSHED TO DEATH, AND MANY OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED BY FALSE ALARM OF FIRE.

MR, JOHN BRIGHT PATOES CHANNEL TUNNEL AND SUEZ CANAL PROJECTS.

SIR HERCULES ROBINSON TO COMPLETE TERM OF OFFICE AT THE CAPE.

SIR F. D. BELL NEGOTIATING FOR LINE OF MAIL STEAMERS BETAVEEN FRANCE AND NEW ZEALAND.

LONDON,

June 15,

At the wool sale to-day 12,100 bales were offered. The market Avas steady, but the demand was not active. June 16. At to-day's avool sale 9100 bales wero offered. The market was steady, but the demand is not actiA'e. The homeward mails via Naples, per steamship Orient, from Melbourne on May 9, were delivered in London to-day. June 17. One of the most appalling catastrophes for many years past occurred at Sunderland last night. A children's fete was being held during the evening in the Victoria Hall, fully tAvo thousand being present, and tho entertainment having ended the chil • dren Avere leaving the building, when a. false alarm of fire was raised. A panic ensued, and a rush Avas made for the staircase, in descending which many fell and were trampled upon by those folloAving. Tho outlet became blocked, and before the panic could be allayed, and the staircase cleared, one hundred and eighty had been crushed to death and many others seriously injured. Tho calamity has caused profound distress and gloom over the district, and sympathy is uniA'ersally expressed for the sufferers and their relatives. The Right Hon. John Bright, in tho course of an address to the people of Birmingham last evening, strongly advocated the formation of the channel tunnel, and also urged the advisability of co-operating with France in the formation of the projected second Suez canal. It has transpired that Sir Hercules Robinson will shortly return to the Cape, and Avill remain there until the completion of his term of office. Sir F. D. Bell, the New Zealand AgentGeneral, had an intervicAv AA'ith M. Cochery, the French Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Avith reference to the establishment of a line of mail steamers betAveen New Zealand and French ports. The result of the intervieAV has not, hoAvever, transpired.