EUROPEAN MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 10, 21 November 1877, Page 2

EUROPEAN MAIL NEWS.

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MELBOURNE * November -13. In connection with, the Avalanche disaster had it not been for the kindness of the landlady of the Coal Inn, at Portland, the six bodies would have been buried without a winding-sheet or particle, of clothing. She purchased some calico to wrap them m, and with a four-wheeled waggpii removed them m the pauper shells; provided to the graveyard ; but there wasno one there to follow the remains, nor even any one to" carry the eonins to their last resting place* At the request of tixe clergyman some quarrymen, m their working dresses, came forward, and prevented the public scandal that would otherwise (as a newspaper, correspondent tells us) have occurred of the waggon being drayrn to the grave and the cofans shot into it wholesale. Sjri* Julius Vogel* with the approval of the Board of Trade, has presented, on the part of the New Zealand Grovernment, each of the Portland fishermen :who went out to the rescue with a £5 note. , The condition of the Pope's health has assumed a new aspect. He is sufEeriiig ffom very great prostration ; easily and frequently falls asleep, and has barely strength • enough to give attention to any business. A/camarilla commands at the Vatican , and acts m the name ■ of the Po£e, and that period! of confusion and intrigue "has commenced which is preparatory to a crisis. iSoin<? -of ! the ■cardinals^ are. holding; meetings to provide for any emergency . It;is stated m a telegram, dated Cracow^ September -21; ; tKfbt a general panic has been produced m Bussia by the latest war news, and that the peasants are flying into the forests ;for fear of- a fresh enlistment. There is a general feeling of open hostility to the Government. -