American News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 91, 12 March 1884, Page 2

American News.

All the Western American rivers have ovei'flowed, reaching q. higher level that the almost Unprecedented flood of last year. A multitude of people are homeless, and hopeless, e.s- , pecially m CiucinatU. [r ; , An attempt is being made ; by the New^oi'k Legislature .to suppress stock gambling, ; aad a. Bill hsis^eeii introduced declaring void all contrgpfcsi written or verbal, unless the, party contracting to sell or ..transfer "stocky has the aame m aotual possession. fL.'GK. Martin, welHsndwn to/stock men m the colonies, is still m Ne\f York), gaol, i" An l inveftigntioii of the plans of, Martin and hisasaoci^tes, shovp that .they; intended: to flood-tin© jAud-' i laliaa^oloniea with oounterfeit/boml^, ( which Martin declared he had influence enpiighLto/noat}]'^..' j [ %c Treasury Bepavtment abap.-

doned the further prosecution on the 26th January of Wm % Woolfe and Edmund Bondwrand, who were charged will being illegally m possession of dynamite. The correspondence between the British Foreign Secretary and the American Minister on the sentence of Patrick O'Donnell was presented to Parliament on February 8. Lord Granville's replies to Mr Lowell are curt and formal, and each letter is limited to a single sentence.