ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 76, 8 March 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

(Mail Steamer at Auckland.) TERRIBLE SHIPWRECKS. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. DISASTROUS FLOOD IN CINCINN \TI. (PEK UNITED rUESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, This Day. The Briton Ferry Ironworks, Wales, have stopped. 1,000 persons are out of employment. Cooper, Hall and Co, commission merchants and bankers, of London, hare failed for £2,000,000. A desparate street fitfht took place in Scutaria on the 13th, in which 20 Turks were killt d or wounded. The outlook for the crops generally throughout Europe is gloomy in the extreme. No part of the continent, east or west, has escaped inundations, and the immediate destruction of property has been widespread, but is insignificant compared with damaged prospects of the year. Several wrecks are reported on the English coast. The barque Royal Tar, from Philadelphia for Liverpool, was driven into Penzance on 20th of January. Her decks were swept and one man was lost. Ten bodies were washed ashore at same place. It is supposed that the steamer Black Witch foundered near Point Hall. The Agnes Jack was wrecked near Swansea on her passage from Sardinia. All hands pe'ished. The steamer Kenmuir Castle, from London to Shanghae, foundered iv the Bay of Biscay on the 2nd of February. The captain, first mate, and thirty of the crew were drowned. The crew were only able to launch a boat containing all the pas* sengers, numbering 8, and 8 of the crew. The crew altogether numbered 40. The London Southwestern railway company's steamer Hilda, running between Jersey and Southampton, ran into, on Feb 4, and sunk a French ship, name unknown. The crew of the sunken ship were all drowned. The beach from H ar *" cu to Alderborough is strewn with wreckage from the British ship, Pride of The Ocean, from New York to Hamburg. A case containing dynamite, found by the coastguard, leads to the conjecture that the loss was caused by an explosion of dynamite. H.M.S. Sultan, while in a fog in the German Ocean, ran into and sunk the steamer Cambria, of the Ameri-can-Hamburg line. The Cambria was laden with emigrants, and the loss of life was fearful, only 56 persons are known to be saved. The gunboat sent by the London Times, sailed for Murray Island from London, on the 26th January, with provisions for the people who are reported to be in a starving condition. English capital, attracted by high dividends paid by American land aud cattle companies, is seeking investment in that quarter. Archbishop Croke writes confirming the widespread fearful distress prevailing in the Counties of Donegal, Clare and Sligo: The country, he saya, can never expect peace and plenty until released from the " red yoke of a bloated and ruthless oligarchy." The Bishop of Killala has issued a pastoral denouncing secret socities. The Popei in a letter to Cardinal Maccabc, copies of which have been sent to all Irish Bishops, congratulates them on their zeal in calming the country. A terrible accident happened at Cincinatti owing to the inundation of the river. The Southern Railroad Depot gave way, throwing 100 people into 30 feet of water, t le cars falling upon them Two square miles of ( incinnati are reported'under water on 11th February. Business men say the damage will reach millions of dollars. The gasworks are submerged, and the city is in partial darkness. Russian Nihilists now in New York with Herrmost declare that the Czar will not be crowned on May 27th. Leo Hartmann is very busy. Misses Booth, Charleswortb and three others were expelled from the Salvation Army, in Geneva, in Switzerland, on the 13th Feb., being unable to account for the proceeds of a collection at a meeting of tae Arms there.