English Extracts.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 481, 3 June 1867, Page 3

English Extracts.

CALAMITOUS FI HE IX LOAD OX. Early on Monday morning, March 1] in (ho neighbourhood of Oii Quebec«streot, Oxford-street, a the occurred by winch sir persona lost their lives, and three others sustained serious injury. It broke, out in .) sort of doubly house situate at die corner of Erjanstone-&treet and Old Quebec street. On the ground filer ihere are two .-hops, occupied by Mr S. M',indin, bootmaker, and Miss C-tlev, milliner, 'flu upper portion of the hou-.-e contains about thirteen rooms, let out to different families, on the first floor, and one room was occupied hy an elderly man named S!;itt>r anil 1 is wife, the remaining rooms by Air Ciiantieier, his wife and daughter. On the second floor lived u, man named Carter his Wife, and three children ; and in another room Elizabeth Cornelius, formerly in the service of the Marquis of Londonderry. On the liiiM floor lived Air and Airs Aiarcombe, and a Airs Searel and an adopted daughter. Respecting the cause of the fire very little information can be obtained. 1 here is every reason, however. io believe that it originated in the room occupied by Air and'-Mrs (farter, ihey were the first to escape from the hoes-' .nough very tun-b burnt about the head *‘i“ arus. and. being almost stupified, it is .'.opposed they were unable to give an alarm to tire other inmates of the house. \ .io, an.erlui.utely, were not sensible o! >Ue*r tear!ai position (id the fire reached| iheir bedrooms, live or three then cs-i'-aped by jumping from the window into llie street, and several were rescued bv one ot tii> escapes belonging to the Roved .society, brought from the Edgcware-rorul .taliou. The Brigade engines from Baker* streot arrived early ; but by that time (he ■vhoio of the upper portion of the two houses was in flames. The firemen, hearing screams proceeding from the grating in the pavement over the kitchen, inuneuiately tore up the iron bars, and succeeded in extricating two elderly women mimed Ilareomo and Scacome, who, it appears, slept in the lower part of the house, there was no time lost in bringing together numerous other engines of the brigade, md most of tiiciu were made use of. The flames, however, destroyed the whole of, the rooms in the house with the roof, and only tuc shops escaped. As soon as the tire was sufficiently extinguished, and In; .•inns cooled, the brigade made a search tor the persons mi'.-iug, and before daylight t no u-mains ot sis bodies were found, so burnt ana disfigured that recognition was impossible. Their names were Mrs -Scare!, aged -10, and her adopted, child. James N\ ceks, 10 years of age ; Elizabeth Cornelius, aged 40, a lady’s maid, out of a situation; and throe children belonging to Air ana Airs Carter, namely, William Carter, aged 5 years; E. J, Carter, aged 2 years ; and 11. Carter, aged 5 months. The mother was saved by the firo escape; she had her clothes on fire, and was much ■burnt. Sue was removed to Sr. MarvV ilospital, where she Mill remains. The lather is understood to have jumped from (he window and escaped uninjured. X'one of the families were insured. The inquest is expected to be held to-day (March id.)

FUNERAL OF ARTEMUS V.'AKD. Ter innrrnl cf Mr Charles Browne took place oa Saturday, March 9tii, at Konsalgrew. Cemetery. The body had been conveyed from Southampton to the house ot Mr Charles Millward, in Malden-crescent, Ernies ot \\ ates-road, whence it was carried on Saturday at a quarter past one. The hearse was followed by four mom-nine coaches and several private carriages, containing some of the Inouds of the deceased aumonst. In the first carriage were— Jii 111. F. Kingston (one of his executors), : George Stephens* Artemus Ward's page,l ciuci mourners ; and Dr. Croft, one of his London physicians. Thesocond earrings— Jho English pall-bearers: Mr Charles Millward, Mr Tom Hood, Mr Andrew Ualiiday, and Mr J. L, Toole. In the third carriage—The American pall-bearcrs : Major Charles Temple Dix, son of General i is, L 1 cited States Minister to France; Mr Bd*«d Curtis, York; Mr A*

Chadbourne, California; and Mr Lawrence Barrett, New York. The fourth carriage contained literary friends.

Amongst the following was that cf the American Minister, containing the secretary of Legation, Mr B. Horan'. Oa its arrival at Ivin sal-green Cemcterv many gentlemen joined the- proc.-sMu, and accompanied the body to the grave. Amongst those present were—Messrs. Godfrey Turner, Arthur SkT-Mcr (J j Mutt, W. S. Gilbert, H. Leigh, \y. Eruu-I ton, Wh Barnes, J. Billington, Thomas Archer, Arthur A’Bcckett, VV. B. Tcgetmelr. I -■Vimey bie;j-y’ t . Jurtyac*, liam T'riswe-ILi John Clarke, &c. ’ j The inscription on the colTm was sug-i ■rested by the deceased "iharies i'J Browne, aged 33 years, known to timi .world as ‘Artemus Wari,’ : ’ After fuel service the friends of the dccevsc-d pro-i cceded to the lower chapel, where fnev! were addressed by Mr Lawton and Dr ."Spencer Kali. A memorial will be placed in the cemetery at a future time, and pro b.ibly the remains will be taken to America for re-interment. By Is is will the deceased gentleman leaves the bulk of his property to his mother, whoso age is C2. The property bequeathed to Mr Browne’s mother is, on her death, to revolt in trust to Mr Horace Grecly, of New York, to be applied for the foundation of an asylum for s/red and decayed pnntc.s, cf whose craft ho vcj. 11c has appointed as his executors Mr T. \Y. Robertson and Mi- E. B. Kingston. The latter has accompanied him in his travels, and has been for some time his secretary.

A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE AT BRISTOL. Ay affair, which promises to bo as mysterious us the ce!ebr»ted Read murder, is just no’.r agitating the public mind in Bristol. About a month ago, a. man named Charles .Tones disappeared under very peculiar circumstances, and. has never Oecu seen or heard of since. The stre.r. r e ness and me myetcrious manner in which no has vanished leads to a strong beliei that he Inis been murdered ; but up to the present lime not the slightest clue lus been obtained upon which the local polh-r can go to work. Air Chari.** Joros wn« about 83 years ot age, very short in stature, and of very slight frame. His atvor aranc. was out of the common, and such that no one could meet him in the street withou' taking notice of the oddity of his look and manner. He resided at Stanley House, L'ppcr Easton, near Bristol, occupying only a part of the house, the other p.v-t being occupied by a working man. Air Jones was a tailor by trade, and mauv years ago ho went to Australia, where he acquired a eompetenco. Returning to England, he took up his residence in Bristol. lie is desc-.ibed as a man of peculiar tin bits, of an uncommunicative nature, and of a parsimonious disposition. He has a "ife living, but they have been separated ’or some time. On Wednesday, i,'ibti* 12th, Mr Jones had a carpenter „t work upon his premises, and, as the job -.as not completed in the evening, th--Ettcr stated that he should finish it on the next day, to which Air Jones replied tin: ho should not be at homo, as he w :s going to White Fatihs’ lload to buy some properly. That same evening he called at the lieiorm Tavern, in Bnon-l-strcct, and saw Mr Walters, the landlord, with whom he has been ou terms of great intimacy, in any business transactions .having taken place between them. It is distinctly alleged by -overa! parties that, ho laid nothing to drink there. The next night he did not return to his house, nor the night alter, rod the suspicious of his friends began to jc aroused. Inquiries were tu.de in various directions, ami it was found that on Thursday afternoon ho hud been to the North Somerset Railway Inn, in St, Tuilip’s Marsh, kept by a man named Ramsdcn. This place is situated close to what is termed the Feeder, and at no

areal distance from the New Cut, in which !he's is a tidal stream. Near to the premises arc two or three limekilns. Hams den, in answer to inquiries, said that Jones c:une there about two o’clock, and remained there till about a quarter past five, when lie left, Tory drank. The servant stales that he had a gold watch and chain, and it is well known that the missing genilounm wore one of the most magnificent chains ever seen. There had, it seems, been business transactions between him and Kamsden, and lie had lent Hauisden money. Now, the landlord states that he paid jfr Jones £3lo—£LO more than he owed him, by mistake—on the same alternoon, in notes and gold, for which he obtained a receipt, or rather a pencilled cross, purporting to be Charles Jones’s mark. Since then no one has scan ilr Jones. Every search has been made. The police hare dragged the Feeder and

the Cut, and search cdthe kilns. Kcward.-j. of diae.uut amounts have boon offered, out nothing has yet turned uo to tnro-.v the slightest light upon the mysterious affair. Two things are mentioned very ireely by everybody, and some weight L artaciiod to them, viz., that Air done? could write his own name very well, and had no need to make a cross; and also that Kamsden, although he alleges he paid £d-iO in gold and notes, can give no information as to where lie obtained th. mo ey. Erf ry day tho public anxiety in :he matter increases. The great difficulty I which the police have to contend with is their inability to find any traces cf ihc oody. It would be idle to disguise the fact that very grave suspicions are entertained in a certain quarter in the present case, bat till it can be proved that Miff ones is actually dead, the police seem powerless to act. It is tho intention cf several gentlemen to get up a memorial to the Hama SecreUry. asking him to offer ft

substantial regard and a free psrdon to any accomplice who may not have actually coriiuiited the supposed murder. Meanwhile tiie public mind is in a stats of icrn.?”t, and the subject is the them© of coaversatiju iu every circlo.