COST OF THE ABYSSINIAN WAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 720, 4 February 1876, Page 3

COST OF THE ABYSSINIAN WAR.

The Housed Commons’ Committee of Public Accounts report that the total cost of the Abyssian. war, so far as ascertained np to the present time, amounts in round numbers to L 8,950,000. But there are further charges not yet settled, amounting to something over L 30,000, and it is almost impossible to state positively that no more claims will be put forward by the Government of India. LIVING WITH A MOTHER-IN LAW. On August 27, a man thirty years of age, a platelayer on the Settle and Carlisle Railway, hung himself on a post in a public drying-ground at Carlisle. Before doing so he wrote with a piece of chalk on a neighboring wall the following passage :■ “ I take the pleasure of writing these few lines if it will be a warning to all young men, and never live with a mother-in-law. Now I end my miserable life.” MINE ACCIDENT IN CORNWALL. At the Great Wheal Lovell mine near Helsfan there occurred one of those casualties which specially attend mining, but, fortunately for Cornwall, are ur.frequent in metal mines. For some time there has been “ bad air” at the 44 fathom level, but three men, named William Johns, John Jenkins, and Edward Rogers, went to work there about two o’clock this morning. As they did not return in the ordinary course, a man named Daniel Treloar, his son, and six others, went down, and at the bottom the atmosphere began to affect the candles they carried carefully, as in the dimness they groped their way through the level, and about 200 feet from the main shaft, Johns was found. Already the rescuing party were beginning to feel overpowered, but they took off their Jackets and swung them about in the limited space to clear the gas by which they and the senseless man at their feet were surrounded. Not far from where the first victim was picked up Jenkins and Rogers were found. They were all insensible. William Tonkin, one of the first to go after the missing ones, was by this time so overcome that he became stupefied. Daniel Treloar and his son, who had actively exerted themselves, were also exhausted, and the latter, whose father had been up and down three times, was lashed lo the ladder fourteen fathoms up, or he would have fallen and been dashed to pieces in the depths below. After hours of toiling the shaftsmen and those who had gone to their relief were all brought out.

MELANCHOLY DEATH. —o— The melancholy anti unexpected death has just been announced of a gentleman well known in fashionable society—Mr H. Baldook of Grosvenor place, who formerly represented Shrewsbury in the House of Commons. Mr Baldock a few weeks ago went to Kensington Palace Gardens to inspect the residence of Alexander Collio, which was then open to the public previous to its being put up for sale. Among other luxurious additions to one of the apartments was a conservatory, filled with superb exotics. Mr Baldock advancing to the door to examine them more closely, walked straight through a large sheet of plate glass which filled the aperture, and of which, there being nothing to denote its existence, Mr Baldock was of course unaware. The ill-fated gentleman severely lacerated one of his legs above the knee, and though the arteries escaped, it would seem the nerves and tendons were injured to an alarming extent. The best medical skill was speedily called in, but erysipelas set in, which could not be reduced, and Mr Baldock died on’August 15.