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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 27, 19 August 1890, Page 4

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i LF3B UNITED PBBBS ASSOCIATION j Auckland, August 17. Arrived : E.M.S. Mariposa from San Frauciaco. Aiuougst the through passengers to Sydney ia Peter Jackson the wellknown pugilist. (Summary dates from Europe up to July 25th.) Intelligence reached Dublin on the 11th of July of a horrible aiiair at Ballyneaie, when John Hard murdered his mother and chopped uer body to pieces. When diacuvwred he was found tyiug Oesido the remains eating a portion of them A cabie message, dated the 17th of July leporta an increase in mould and vermin in some English hop plantations. Duriag the week endiner the 20th of July tbf.ro were further ravages by the potato blight in Ireland. The Key. L»r. Lyons, of Gastlehaven, Diocese of Ross, Cork, writing on the 1/ th July, says that in all the town laud of his parish, bordering on the ■sea, the failure of the potato crop is complete. .Distress reports have also come from Other districts of Cork, Limerick, Kt:r.y, and Waterford. Since th >y W' ra received the weather has beeu wetter than ever, and the blight has spread to a frightful extent. A despatch from London dated July 20th, speaks of it as the heaviest . rainfall known in any one W6ek since Ib7B. The pecuniary loss to farmers is somewhat terrible. Between Shepperton and London there were hundreds of acres of meadows in which the cocked hay was four-fifths under water. Two bright hot days in the middle of the week revived hopes that after all the wheat might be saved in something not too far below the average crop ; but subsequent tropical ruius and arctic temperature have dissipated thf-se. This is likely to be the worst crop yield since the disas er of 1879. A despatcli dated Paris July 25th Bays the crops throughout France, except in the section east vi' me Rhone, have been destroyed by incessant rains, and the losses are estimated at over 500,01.0.000 francs. Dealers in grain discount the scarcity, and the price of bread is rising. The Belgian Congo State Company is about to send a new expedition to Congo State for exploration purposes. It will consist of seven Europeans, - 150 native soldiers, and a great number of carriers. The explorers will foiiow a route hitherto untrodden by 1 white men. Four women were arrested on board vthe steamship Majestic at Queenstown from New Yorh on July 17th, and on being searched their bustles were found crammed with tea, tobacco, spirits, and other contraband goods. The enormous size of these adjuncts to their dress attracted the attention <- of the customs officers, Lurd Wolaeley has recently written .letters to a friend in Baltimore, in which he says :— The closer the bonds * of union between mother and child — England and the United States -the] better it will be for both, and our> race, and indeed for civilisation. Those who rant about the causes of • quarrel between us are no friends of nation, or to humanity. San Francisco, July 26. Private advices from Eio de Janeiro (July 10th) say it is generally and -openly stated that .Rothschilds will not pay the loan made just before the fall of the monarchy. They allege there is no Government de jure, only de facto, and that in case i>i restoration or other change the contracts may -foe repudiated. Euy Barbusa, thy Secretary to the Treasury, is therefore in a bad fix. The new Government has created new departments and raised the. salaries of everybody, the public employes, army, navy, aud their own, which the country coulu not afford under monarchy, much less how. The foreign interest has to be paid, exchange is very high, and .financiers do not know what to do. Encouuters between whites and ■ ? blacks are becoming more frequent in : the southern states. One occurred at • Mill Pond, Fayette Cuuuty, Georgia, j -on the afternoon of July LOth, in which four negroes were killod and | six wounded. Eight whites were shot, ' but it is thought only one of them ! fatally, making eighteen in all killed and wounded. The trouble started : between a negro, who was selling j wine, aud a white man, and it was I not long before there were 500 involved, white and black. There are also grave fears of a race war, in Pocahontaß, a tuning region in j ' Western Virginia, where the opera- ! tives are for thft most part coloured ! - 1 men. On Juiy 6th a gang of them i set upon a white man in an excursion ■ , train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and beat him nearly to death. The railroad detectives inter- j f erred and a terrible fight en.-;ued, in i which the whitß men were badly done • j up as well as the negroes. A riot i was reported near Kerain, Barn well j County, South Carolina, on July 15th ' where 300 negroes, armed with riflep, • confronted 25 white men. One nogro ' had been killed. Assistance was sent i'rom the neighbouring town. Horrid stories are told anenfc the recent invasion of Formosa by the i Chinese. When ihe iuvading army reached the country the Formosa savages fled to the hills. That ended i 1 the campaign. Jeu Chew Tai returned with a few selected troops by ateamer, leaving the reat to get back • .as they bent could. Many marched I overlaud, and suine were sent in j f.eight boats with rations for one day. . Three hundred died from fever. All the sick who wc-ro supposed to be dying ware hustled into coffins and buried before they were cold. Soldiers were seen forcing the lid of a coffin j down-on a victim who was [iteouwly j crying for water, but the Ld was ■ < quailed fast and the living man hurried i away to burial. The more dead there were the more money came to the pockets of the survivors.