GENERAL SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1484, 19 October 1885, Page 4

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(Dates frpm Europe to September.) , ' Saw FAANOiisiDb^ Sept. 26. \ ! London despatches to September ?sth Report a f^arlM-cf clone at tf'alse. Point, back of Bengal, .lines were iwept away, ; vessels foundered, and many lives were lost. . „.. : . ; • ■ .Mary Anderson, ; the American .actress, accidentally wounded herself m the breast while. .plajing^ Juliet at Dublin' Theatre. An <upfqar ensued, . and the audience were^only quietened by being assured by Miss Anderson that the injury wastrifling. t A% , , , \ The DukeYcf has had trouble with-his hop-pickersonhis Kentish estate. Picking finished on the 25th. The usual price for pickers il Is 6d a basket, but' the duke offered a shilling which was refused, amid such a row that the. duke 1 became frightened and "quickly,^ paid the full rates. . ; 'The Rev. Dr William Smith has been appointed Catholic Bishop of Edinburgh, jsq .^p.A f\ rr-'- --' London despatches report the whole of f^fisherießia failure, owing to heavy iceP '■' ■■■'''' /.■ . ' ' . JlSai^ proposed *to cleaniß^andirebuUdj the slums of Windsor. It is also suggested; that the expanse be'def rayed from, the Queen's Privy Purse.' ThY Bdyal towa is said to be frightfully filthy. t , Thirty soldiers belonging to a Highland regiment cauie m collision on Sept. 6th with a dozen cavalrymen m a village near Plymouth;- The Scotchmen were' routed, and then the, artillerymen carried the place by storm. ' Mr Samuel Plimsoll' proposes to contest Sheffield for a seat m Parliament He, had a tremendous reception, m. that city on Sunday, the 6th. Two hundred workmen drew his carriage through the principal streets. h • ' ; : Mr Gladstone's daughter, and young Arnold Morley, son of Mr John Morley, M.P., late' of the Pall MallGaxette, are^o be'manf|di|'- : ' ■" / -<"-:, . .t. .} Mi(xSamuel Plimsoll, the millionaire philftnthropist and sailors friend, ig about to marry Miss Wade, "an enormously rich spinßter, living m Hull. t Lord' Randolph Churchill's health? has given' way^under thja 'seVere? strain of His official duties, and his late electioneering fatigues. > .. A lunatic was arrested m Buckingham Palace onVSep'teriab^r gth/whtfe seekirtg an interview with the Queen. 1 ' He had with him an ordinary grease bottle, which insisted . on presenting to Her sWmigtifciiaVeV knowledge of alltnat was happening. .; ; '-.. . ; , ; , James Bowman, the gamekeeper so frequently intritidned m the Queen's Lite m the Highlands, was found hanging head downwards on : a • wire fence m -the forest on September 12th. The positiori of the dead man forbade the idea thai he had committed suicide. ' , ( ; , ; On the 10tti Sept., at night, t^r o men approached the powder mazagine ( at Woolwich arsenal, - and surprising; the sentry, beat him brutally. They\were abofil f tp^ a noise they decamped. Pritice Battenburg has resigned' from the German . service, .. " and been made a commander m the British Navy. '■' There is a. chorus of indignation- from service At Doncaiter on the 16th September the race- for the St. Leger Stakea^was won by Melton (ridden by, Archar), Isolar «ecofid,a>d lonely third ; ten started. V '/ ■ < < ■r By an accidtnt at Oatwell Colliery at nkstohe, eight, miles from Derby, on the 16th September, '800 miners were entombed. TkeyrWerejMtoned by way of the furnaqe shaftr- ~ i; :i:: A On the 9th the Bank of Ireland received another £500,000^ from^the Bank of England to enable it io^meet any exnra demand that was made, on it. . „; The latest agrarian outrage is reported mm cßoscommon^ A small farmer ait was* evibted, unjustly , as .he thought, from a jimall trac£ of pasture ing the grass Tnacnme picked up ax;rop ( of pikeheads^. and ruined, , He now seeks compensation under the j Malicious Injuries' Acfc : v ;:>•. )••} t £~¥' \ ■I'-. Boycptting is increasing, m Ireland; ■^ywl^ofeurr^^;^ f icecour«e tt'Kilfusho^Se^embefllth.in'whiCh, seVeral'jocWys were netrlv;. beateq^o: [a^kth/^H ,^,f: >:Vr». : :?&%■> 'The: Munster ißank has /been reorga- ; niijed; with a capital of £1,000,000 m i : 5'