EUROPEAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 110, 17 April 1876, Page 2

EUROPEAN.

English mail news Ftite that tidings h ive been received from Central Afrfca of the welf.tre of Colonel Gordon; the medical attendant was dead, and there was no white mm in his party. Joliffe, of the Isle of Wight, the famous s'eeptechase rider, wa. killei in the Huntingdon railway accident. A remarkable walking match Ins taken place at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, between Edward Weston, aa American, and William Perkins, the fastest walker. in England, for the championship of the world. Tbey were to walk (or twenty-four consecutive hours, and the one covering the greatest distance in that time to be declared the winner Perkins retired at 65 miles, while Weston completed 109 miles unexhausted. The Zingari, and gentlemeu of the All England Woven have projected a visit to America to play a series of matches for the world's championship with the New York and Philadelphia Clubs. Nearly a hundred and thirty persons in a Lancashire Village, near Boeton, are M_.ff-.ring from bood poisoning. The cau«e is traced t > milk from diseased cow?, or^adulterated with water pollu'ed by sewerage. iln the Ciiiton appeal cs?, involving tho personality of Satan and eternity of punishment the Lord Chancellor's 'decision was against the clergyman, who i . admonish°d to admit Mr Jenkins to the Sacrament and pay costs. A fre occurred afc a c ,tton mill at Bolton, throwing 150 pereons out of employment ; dimig , £?,QOO A fire also destroyed the woollen mill of Mr Sl.eard, of Batley, whicli affordei empioymert to nesr'y a thousand pers^Uß ; damage, _£_0,000 At Black Pock a mill near S .ay ley bridge was burnt down, and several persons seriously injured; damage £20,000. It is stated tbat £6 r 0,000 was paid by insurance companies last year to owners of cotton mills burned down. Small pox of a very virulent type is previii ing at Bombay, snd many Furopeans have been attacked. Two temporary hospitals !>re to be erected immediately for the accommodation of patients. The iinglish passen genge'rs declined to proceed in the Bangalore from G-il'e, ns several cHses had occurred on board, and there was no alternative but to send b.ick the China, but she brings no car«;o. ;T!.e steamer Orestes was lost outside Giille liarlor; a'l on board saved. The steamer Pow ata which l_ft Jeddah with four hundred pilgrims was wrecked the sime night. She struck on a reef, and only 13 were saved out of the number on b_tard. Oiutuary.— .Mr William Jackson, a large cod owner; John IL-nry Barker, formerly Police Magistrate at Clerk en well; Frederick Lemartine, French actor; Dr Dykes, musician and composer, and large contributor to "Hyuniß, Ancient nnd Modern";. Pau'ett Scoupe, thirty-four years member for Stroud; Sir John Co'cridj-e (aged 85 years) ; ; Jut* tice Keeting; Sir Baldwin Walter; Dr Kichard Wing, physicion tind Polar traveller.