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Dunstan Times, Issue 1112, 24 August 1883, Page 3

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Captain Matthew Webb, the noted English swnmn r, who first came into notice by { his unto ions f«at in the Enjihh Channel, perishei in the fterun m on l ueaday, July 1 14 ir, in attempting to swim the Niagara 4 river wdMpool rapids. He was rowed in a [ •skiff to a point in the river opposite tho old * “M dd of Mist" landing hy John M'Olay, f ferryman at the Palis, and leaped from the 'j boat at two tu nu es post 4 o’clock. The daring swimmer >so 1 the big rapids all 1 right, keep n; ii t e mid ne of the stream. 1 When ho slruca the wb rlpool he was *■ lushed to the American sirlo, where tho 1 waves, it is estimate I, are from thirty to v 41 leet high. When the last wa [a nofhi" a he was throwing up one arm. His intention 0 ha I been to pass the whirlpool on the Cana- 1 diau side. H a shoot, of the rapids was ex 8 tremely thrilling. The ref us it of the rain '• roa Is and h-rtois to have anything to do with what they e ib-d “ going to his death” a rendered the affair financially a failure. ,ri ae v river was searched below the whirlpool, ,J bat no trace of the drowned man was found & It is generally believed that he was engulfed 11 in the whirlpool. Webb leaves a wife and v child in England. There was a tragedy in Bedford on July 17 that ciuaed great excitement. Apa ty were 1 playing lawn tennis near the Ship Inn at St. 8 Oathbert's. in the centre of toe town, Mr 1 U;var, an army officer, and Miss M'Kiy, a 1: han Isoms girl of twenty years of age, being 8 amongst the players. Suddenly, without = apparent provocation, Devar pulled out a [ revolver and “hot Miss M’Kay dead. He 1 then blew out his own brains. Both victims are well known in society. It is believed f that jealousy was the motive of the crime. 11 With regard to the Bill legalising mar- 'I riage to a deceased wife’s sister, a despatch u dated July I sc, says the bishops are so alarmed hy the storm of critiei m evoked v by their opposition that they have prepared b a reply in justification and explaining their e motives. The despatch says further that e the Royal family is much vexed at the a failure of the measure, which puts the in- a tended marriage of the Princess Brearrice v with her wi owed brother in-law as far off ' as ever, that project being said to explain J the warm a Ivocaey of the Bill by the Prince l of Wales a id his brother. > A Loudon cable to New York, dated ' Jivy 25, says the report is confirmed of the r betrothal of Mias Nellie Fortescue, the favourite actress of the Savoy Theatre Com pany, to the Hon. Arthur Widiam Garmnyle, second and oldest living son of Lord Ci rns. The young lord is not 22. and has for a long time, by his pronounced love for theatricals and constant association with e the people of the stage, been in disfavour s with his father. The prospective groom has, „ however, the strong sympathies of his younger brother, who also developes preco- [ cions predilections for the stage, Lady , Charlotte, wife of Rev. H. Nevii e Short- , brook, sister to Lord Cairns, is making a { tumult over what she calls ihe impenning a degradation of her brother’s family. j A deputation of the British Medical As- j sooiation and several members of Parlia- j ment called noon the President of the Board r of Trade on July 16 to urge that greater precautions should be taken on emigrant [ vesse s, and th it the pay of ship surgeons , shoal Ihe increased. The Right Hon. Mr t Chamberlain replied that a Bill would he u introduced in the House of Commons dealing with the matter mentioned The Pope was reported to be indisposed on the 26th. f The Paris Municipal Council have rej-ot-d 'j a proposal to raise a loan of 22,0 >O,OOO a Danes. c J ;an Adolph J u'hare the Danish scu'p- , t ir, is dead ; aged 65 The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has increased tueduiy mi tobacco to 75 fiance per 101 kilometres -if the mum aeta-ed article. 1 James Car-y, the info mer, was declared a a bankrupt on July 9th, owmg to his j failure to pay rat-s. The report that ha lift Dublin was continued on the Bth. The i Government refused to give him any reward t or a written pardon. On Mon lay paced- i mg a detective called on him with an order l for his delivery, and drove with him in a I cab into the city. He was given the alter i native of being turned unorotected into the 1 street or a p issage to Lon lon and th-mee to S'me colony in tin Eastern Hemisphere He accepted the latter. His fancy ha.l already gone to Lon lon, presumably to avoid suspicion. Caiey’s house in Dublin is o unplete y coated with mud thrown hy passers by, and an attempt to burn it was ma le on the 15th. The sentence of El ward Harrington, pnnlisher of the Keri-y for printu g a no.ice inviting peop eboj nn the *■ luviucibles,” has been confirmed. James M’Derm itt, a Brooklyn newspaper man and Republican politician, was shot dead on July 12th hy James Gay nor, who said, as he raise i his revolver, ‘ M'Derinott, you traitor, I've followed von three thousand miles to kill yon, and I’ll do it now.” It is asserts i Mr M’Dermott was shot by order of the Fenian Brotherhood. He hat turne I informer, and it was on his evidence Feather-tone. Dalton, Deasy, an I others were arrested for conspiracy to inur dor. Gayimr was one of two members of the Brotherhood who had followed M‘Dormot from Ireland to slay him. At the BUgoassiz-s on July Bth Jmsy was sentenced to fourteen years’ pen il ser vitude, Ro erson to 12 years. Naughton to eig t, and Kelly to two. 'he parties were found gui.ty of consol racy to murder in attempting to blow up Weston House. Ga - way. If they had destroyed the hj use and ki le I the inmites th“y were to receive 1.500, fa ling to take life, they were t' receive L 3 0 Five pounds of dynami'e were exploded on the window sill, hut lit I' damage was done owing to the o aspirators’ ( lack of .-kill. Dennis Field, foreman of the jury whi convicted Hyn s of minder an 1 who was afterwards stabbed, is in constant receipt of letters threatening him with injury, an I 1 his wife and children are often insult d in the atre t.i of Dimlm. An attempt wama e on ihe 11th July to enter his house but the marauders fled when Field tired on J them. 1 The Corrupt Practices B 1 passed the committee stage in the House of (J mmo i- | on July 13 In the House of Lords, on July Ist, Lord Derby, Colonial S oretary, sai l the Government was not re dy to >nn x New Guinea owing to the enormous extent of territory ‘ of an unknown oharactir in the interior,an l te to inly the Natives would object to an- , nexation.

A cable desnatch, dated July 14, states that the out ook for the English harvest is no’, s > favourable as was reported (he pr--ceiling week, as heavy storms hail lodged tha wheat in many places, but still the general prosoens are gaol.