ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 62, 6 February 1883, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Thomas' Petroleum store 3at Exeter were destroyed by fire, and over 60,000 gallons of blazing oil ran into the rirer, Betting fire to the shipping. Several Teasels wtre destroyed as well as buildings. The Inman steamer, City of Brussels, from New York for Liverpool, was ran down m the Channel by a Glasgow steamer, the Kirby Hall, during a fog, and eight of the crew and two passen* gers were drowned. The former found-* ered almost immediately. The main com* partment of the vessel was cut risrht thiough. The cargo was valued 'at

£350.000, and the vessel at £80,000. < There were insurances on tlie cargo from £75,000 to £100,000 ', 'f\ A tall chimney at Bradford, fell upon a building fall of operatives, and killed 36 and injured 50 others nsoßtly women and children. Gaps have appeared m the wall of the Peterborough Cathedral, 010 of the finest m England, aad the structure will bo demolished. Biggar, M.P. was committed for tre son on 2nd January. The charge against him is high treason m a recent speech. He is released on bail. A priest accompanied the Chief Secretary for Ireland m the inspection the parish of Columkill. In twenty houses visited on January 4th there was not a morsel of food. A f armor named Currane, was beaten to death at Surnsford, county Mayo, on January Bth. After spending £50,000 for relief of small farmers and cotters m the West of Ireland, Lady Florance Dixie refuses to raise another fund for the purpose, beli-ving it to be the duty of the Government or the LandjLeague to move m the matter.

A delegation of Catholic prelate brought the condition of West of Ire w land to the notice of Lod Lieutenant. He promised to look into the subject at once. One hundred persons on an average ara searched nightly m Dublin under the curfew clause of the Repression Act. A detachment of soldiers, returning i from foreign service, wholandedin Cork on December 31, were: immediately attacked by a band of drunken civilians. The soldiers defended themselves with knives and several of the assailants werb cut. Puff ans Bar tie tt, convicted of the murder of Thomas Browne, a farmer, a farmer, near Castle Island, were sen* enced so be hanged at Cork on January 13, A company is m course of formation m Dublin, with a capital reaching £1,000,000, for developing Irish manufactures. Dr Maninj a well-known writer on political economy, shot his wife and himself m London on December 27th. the murder and suicide were committed by mutual agreement. Mania was pecuniarily embarasied, and his wife suffered from an incurable bodily aiK ment. .-