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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 115, 9 March 1886, Page 3

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fPBE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, March 7

Arrived— Alameda, Captain Morse, from San Francisco at 8 o'clock this morning. On the up trip, as the Manposa cleared the bar at Honolulu on the 14th February, an explosion took place. The plate covering the boiler tubes exploded, causing the escape of steam and boiling water which blew the fire out of the furnace and scalded five men, two of whom died. Eichard Carrow, a coal passer, and John Whitermarsh, a passage worker, were seriously injured, Eugene Shannon and Tom Hansen were sent to the hospital. One is expected to live. James Brown, J water tender, is strong enough to go on to San Franciso. At the inquest the j ury returned a verdict of accidental death with no negligence on the part of the captain and officers. The Mariposa went on to San Francisco with the remaining three boilers. : Michael Davitt delivered a speech in Flint, Wales, on February 12th, in which he said Mr Parnell was ready to help the Welsh farmers against the landlord, and that unless the Government granted Home Rule to Ireland Mr Parnell would retaliate by presenting in Parliament thirty bills dealing solely with England, Wales, and Scotland. The report of the London Trade Commission published on February 8 says the weight of evidence shows that the failing trade of Great Britain is due chiefly to American and other foreign tariffs. A large consignment of whitefish eggs has been forwarded by the United States fish commissoners, as an experiment to New Zealand. Hancock, who contested the presidency, is dead. Rioting is of daily occurrence in the Coke region, Peuns3 r lvania, owing to resistance of the importation of foreign labour. The weather is so cold in New York that the people get frost bitten whiLfj^rossing Brooklyn Bridge. ' The- filibustering expedition against .Honduras stopped at New York. ■"' r An ugly political scandal is current to the effect that several senators were approached with bribes of stock by a gigantic telephone monopoly. Some yielded to the temptation, and it is alleged that 750,000 dollars was used to subsidise the Press and influence politicians in the interests of the monopoly committee. ' The Chinese movement in California is gaining strength, the Chinese being ousted from all the principal towns iv the State. Efforts are being made to induce the Mormons to buy one of the Hawaiian Islands to colonise. The objection is that Hawaiian laws forbid polygamy. Archbishop Gibbon has been created a Cardinal. Some hostile Apaches, who have been slaughtering Handle men, and burning dwellings in Arizona, have surrendered to a party of troops Two days before Colonel Crawford was killed by a party supposed to consist of friendly Mexicans. The affair threatens to cause trouble between the United States and Mexico. A party of Moonlightwrs at Tralee, attacked, on January 30th, a proee.-s server named Hae, aged 60 years, cutting off one of his ears aud a portion of one cheek. Mr Sexton, presiding at a meeting of the National League, held in Dublin advised the Ron Mr Gladstone to avoid violence and disorder in li-eland by assisting the distressed peasantiy with Government funds, and by protecting them from eviction until a bill was passed to buy out the landlords. He urged Irishmen to remain peaceful while there was a chance of the Hon Mr Gladstone making efforts in behalf of the Irish Nationalists.

Redmond, a Nationalist member of Parliament, in a speech at Mongahan of the 7th February, urged Irishmen to restrain their violent feeling and not to hamper the new Government, which he said would take immediate steps to stop evictions.

"The London Observer says a personal inquiry in the districts lying at the East End of London shows that an average of 50 per cent, of highlyskilled workmen are unemployed. In one street it was found that as high as

60 per cent, were idle. Workhouses of the metropolis are full to overflowing with respectable citizens, who though dullness of trade, have been forced for the first time to seek parish relief.