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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 16, 17 December 1884, Page 2

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♦ GENERAL SUMMARY. The European summary dates to the 22nd Nov. The distress among English shipbuilding workmen is increasing. Miss Fortescue, the actress, has temporarily retired from the stage. A severe shock of earthquake, accoYnpanied with a terrific explosion report, occurred on the night of November the 14th, at Clittercoe, Cheshire,, twentyfive miles from Manchester. The shock threw down houses m the streets, and caused great consternation and excitement among the inhabitants.: ": • .• A troop ship with 2000 marines was ordered to proceed on the 10th November from Portsmouth to the Isle of Sky© to assist the police m restoring order among the .Crofters. Fully 2|>oo Crof.ter met a detachment of police ton their arrival on the 11th November, and con- . ducted them- to Wig. There &ey demanded the object of their coming. No, satisfactory answer being given HW islanders conducted them back; to the landing place, and Requested them to leave their shores. A despatch of the, 16th' says news has been received that the Crofters have resolved to submit unconditionally.. „ j , :■• A blue book, says that Goyerraent liave' ; sanctioned, the expenditure -of J464j000 for the speedy manufacture of breech-loading ordmance, -and 4*17> 000 for worifs and armaments for defence at. Aden, Ceylon, Sinapbre, Hongkong, Simon's Bay, Sierra Leone, St. Helena, • Jamaica, t .,andv St. }Luci,as,, 'The colonies ; contribute- "towards the works and J>300,000 towards; the armament. An International Inventions Exhibi- ., tion^will be held m, London m Isßs, untler' the patronage '■of the Queen, the presidency of the Prince of Wales, jand. the management of an executive council of eminent Englishmen. ' 1 , Mr.^aweett, Postea;aste.r,-Generalv was Juried oh the 9th c at ' Cambridge.; 'Fully 15,000 persons were present. i At the Shrewsbury November meeting, on the 11th,, the.race for. the Shrews-. bury' Cu p: Hahdicap^waswon'byjSprmg^l box, Postscript -second, and 'Umpire third. ! i. ' ' Ada Cavendish, the actress, Idiedj at Brighton from brain disease. ! • fifteen" liyes w£re]sbst by an explosion m the Tredgar Coal and Iron Company's .Colliery, qn.Nov. the 6thJ ;:T ..^ Henry George,' the land agititor, arrived m Loudon on the Bth.— He went fiom New York at the invitation of the Scottish -Land/ Restoration League^ (ajndj m hia public lectures will deal particularly with the Crofters' question. A cablegram from London f olj the 9th says that a sensation has been caused by a rumour that the Earl of Durham, the great landowner, incipient ' politician';' and bearer of an illustrious name, is about to bring an action for a j judicial separation- fronx his wife. The; cause assigned is the discovery that the iphappy -.| . lady is mentally, unsound. I „,,.,._ »,j • ' .In arowing match ori'the 4th:qf,Npy,; on the Thames, ttom Putney <jo Mortilake, between Budear and Perkins, ' : fo"r iQ2OO, Perking had five second^ start,.and won the race. ..^ •''".''•■*' f 'Twenty-four bombs were found m a 1 shed at Stoke Newingtqn, on: tl^e 14th r by some boys. The* bombs rdo r not bear . the iGoyernment mark. The policy are* investigating. i ' - ! Fred Archer, , ; the jockey, .who has recently lost nis wife, has left; England for the jUnited States I .' , .' '' " "■■/ '■ . Lbrd Tennyson's" Freedom' 11 ; will not be' issued till Deceniber. ; j '■■>-' The Queen returned to jWindspr from „Balmoral on the, 19th Nov. m eicelleni (health.. .... ; .'. ;' .. •.... >■'■ '■■'-'■ ■ n,i', X" .IRISHii^FiIRS.; i • i :'::_V : ' Vl v ! Patrick Ni. Fitzgerald, a •", Feniari; : aJ?vrested m London, on a pharge of trieasbtiwas acquitted m l)ubUri''On.ihe ■11th." ; ' - j United' lreland says :— " It is possible a 1 general fiscal revolt will' 'recommend itsself as the simplest and most ; effective w"ay' of 'bompeUing Government Ito yield to Irish demands. i' Frederick JT. Allan, of Young Ireland Society, charged with treason :f>and ' felony, was comniitted for trial on November 13. _': A serious riqt occurred at a mining viUag^of Coall^laqd, m the suburbs of on; Novem)--"ber'l6;"The colliers are bitter |haters,of Protestants, an4,t,Oi show their feelings ..they at|iacked'tlie churcli and arove" r thei P^oteslant worship'peifs ouiB ; jassaultecj,' theni with diibs : and' stoned -eyerjf PiJ)^, I testant they could-find,' and iheltl possesises'sion of tneyillage for two hoursf They- } were ;dispersed o by a police force from 1 Dunganpn. .'-.> .. -'' ! •? : :;?.i:-. r V:- -. i, , <v r ADDITIONAIi ; ITEMS.- ' ; n The 1 captain, and first majte of an American ship bound for Australia have die^ifroni choiera. r . The -.veJsSißilyluw sjfilea n;6m Sartajgp' under 1 ai- faew captain. " '. ' ; : '- <!i "' ; t '■■'-' j daptain Pine, R.N., considers the De Lessep's canal impracticable; ; J ; .' Father Chiniquy h^d ; his life .thfeat-^ i enedat Montreal, where he was prevented .'from lecturing. ,. A '.riot ajfterwards ensued, , and , the police were called on who 'used their clubs'freely. J , • A. Hongkong 'des^Stbhi denies the, French ' ' J fiotories in ' f v Foimisa. ' ! Tne Chinese areassuming the' offensive, and tiie. French will .require ; large reiijfcjfce---ments.before they , par^ resumja the ( ag- • gress^yei.- .'.., ,f- ,',..'..,'...'. | i' "^ ' " .., A. late despatch ' froni f ' Soudan says Mahdi, was piily eighteen'- nourjs' inarch 'from^Khartoum,' and disease is carrying 'off his follbwefs at'theiate*of iOO a day, A sheik was half way between* Eanasla arid Berber, with? help for o General Gordon. ; : - t r; t ..J t .'.,'. : Z u -' r i fy De Young, one pf tKe partners m iKe .'Frisco GhronicU Was: shot t at and! seriously wounded on November. 19 by, the son jof a Sandwich Island sugar ' planter 1: and 'milnonarie. It jis feared the wounds will prove fatal. The «ause: 'of the ; attack was a statement, in the. ■Qfirqnicle charging the father pfc^ th^ sailant with, swindling. „ j . | Cholera jis c,o :^i4ere^ t6 have ceased, m Paris.'"' ; -~ 1^- ] ±... t ' ' •*' General C." L. Nugent" wsp , served with the -58th regiment m the iNew Zear land war h\ ; 464^-46 died [at»Sbit ! hsa, 1 % aged6B,. ■*.■/'■>-.. [''" The Hant's Giiartiian has been pur, phased by Mr H. >Striqger,. .wl^o was for many years ' connected tHe^-Daily. Press m New Zealand. .v . John' Slider and Vet,, who also own the Zealandia and Australia, will plaoe . the Alaska and Arizona pn> lihe Pacific service for a cdnsicleratioii and undetake; [the Service between London andAuck'land m 35 days. • : • (.-' ; , ... .