BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Dunstan Times, Issue 1040, 24 March 1882, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Ten thousoml six hundred biles of wool were offered for sale in London, 'on March 08. A fair demand waa experienced. Tie floods'in (he Mississippi River and ’tributaru s continue, and an enormous extent

of country is inundate 1. Further serious ■destructions has resulted to life and property, and it is estimated that fully 85,000 ■persons have 'been rendered homeless and -destitue.

Disastrous floods have been experienced near Rio Janiero owing to an overflow of the Paral.iba River. A large tract of country is under water, and three towns have been almost completely swept away. Many per■sous have been drowned, and serious loss of property has been caused by the fioods. . During-tbe visit which he paid to the B rim Academy to-tUy the Emperor slipped as he was descending the staircase and fell heavily. His Majesty was somewhat severely bruised, and is now-confined to'his room.

A new iron clad'was launched at the Pemhrnke Dockyard, London, on March 20. The ceremony was performed by ’the Duke of Edinburgh, and was christned The’Edinburgh.

Congress has adjourned the Bill providing ‘for the greater expedition in the overland 'transit of the homeward and outward Australian mails via S;ui Francisco. Captain ’Bail's scheme for a ship railway

across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, has been approved by the American Senate. A committee of the House cf Reprrsentativ a to inquire into the present condition of the American Navy has reported that it would he a national crime to further delay the atrcngthcning'of the navy. The committee advised the construction of steel vessels of the hu gest size.

’The Judicial Committee of the 'Piivy 'Council have decided that the natural daughter Of the late Mr Rhodes, of Welling-

ton. New Zealand, i« entitled as residuary legatee to. upwards of £300,000. Telegrams to!hand from Tunis report that The relations between the French and Italian residents in that country have assumed a decidedly hostile phase, and that constant affrays are taking place in the city of Tunis • and other towns between the two classes .A store shed at the Albert' Docks, Liverpool, was destroyed by lire on March 20 The origin of'tbe fire is at present unknown, but it is believed to have been the work of Fenians whose object was to plunder the Volunteer armoury which stands -in the vicinity of the dork

Great distress is being experienced by the miners at <he Mount Brown diggings, Hew S uth "VVa'es, owing to shortness Of provisions and water The New’ South Wales and South Australian Governments are now 'Organisiugrelief