The Dynamite outrages.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 120, 25 April 1885, Page 2

The Dynamite outrages.

Regarding the damage done to the Towei 1 hy the I'ecent dynamite explosion the London correspondent of a contemporary says : — "lt is estimated that £1000 will cover the damage done by the explosion m the Tower, The explosion m the House of Commons did not injury lo the upholstery, but even there it is estimated that every lh ing can be restored for less than £10,000. We have nor. yet heard how much it will cost to repair the broken glass m Westminster Hall, but it will probably he. lass than £5000. On the whole, £20,000 represents th* outside damage done by the three carelully planned explosions about which all the world is talking. No one was killed, about a score of men, women, and children were slightly injured ; two policemen have lost their hearing, and that is all. A wretched two-penny-halfpenny affair it is, to be sure, says the Pall Mall Gazette, and one which ought to be most reassuring, and even comforting, to all those who have watched the progress of the struggle between society and the demons of dynamite. For, what does it prove 1 This huge Loudon of ours, m which are the nerve centres of the Empire, the rulers of our world-en-circling realm, crowded as it is with vast and incalculable treasures of every kind, has been exposed for two years and more to the attack of conspirators who have the whole armoury of soience at the disposal of agents absolutely I'vee from scruple and remorse. Never was so vast, so vulnerable a target exposed to the malice and ingenuity of the soldiers of despair. And now after two year's campaigning, m the course of which they have made nearly a dozen different attempts, what have they done? Al together tliey have not done more damage than £20,000 would easily make good. They have not killed a creature, blocked a railway, destroyed a building, or m any way checked for a moment tho eveu flow of English life.