SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 274, 19 November 1877, Page 4

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

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In connection with the Avalanche disaster it is stated that had it not been for the kindness of the landlady of the Cove Inn the six bodies found would have been buried without a winding sheet or a particle of clothing. She purchased some clothing to wrap them np. -A. four-wheeled waggon removed thara in the pauper shells provided, to the graveyard, but there was no one there to follow tbe remains, nor eveo anyone to carry the coffins to their last resting place. At the request of the clergyman some quarrymen, in their working dresses, came forward and prevented the public scandal that would otherwise, as a newspaper correspondent tells ue, have occurred of the waggon bei»g drawn to tha grave and coffins being shot into it wholesale. Sir J. Yogel, with the approval of the Board of Trade, has presented, on the part of the New Zealand Government, each of the Portland fisherman who went out to the rescue with a £5 note.

The condition of the Pope's health has assumed a new aspect. He is suffering from very great prostration. J?e easily and frequently falls asleep, and has barely strength enough to give his attention to any business. Camarilla commands at the Vatican, and acts in the oame of the Pope, and that period of confusion and intrigue has commenced which is preparatory to a crisis. Some of the cardinals are holding meetings to provide for any emergency.

It is slated in a telegram dated Cracow, September 21, that a general panic has been produced in Russia by the latest war news, and that tbe peasants are flying into the forests for fear of a fresh enlistment. There is a general feeling of open hostility to the Government.

Admiral de Horsey has been ordered home to explain his attack on the Peruvian ram Hauscar.

Gne of the largest fires in the East End of London that has taken place for aome years occurred on Sept. 24, at aome oil and color warehouses, Millwall. The loss was very great. Fourteen hand besides three water engines were brought into requisition, and 1000 firemen were preeent.

A colliery strike has occurred in the province of Hainault, Belgium. Biota took place at Waaraea, and troops and gendarmes had to restore order.

The marriage of Don Alphonao (King of Spain), with the daughter of tbe Due de Montpensier, is definitely arranged,

Hostilities have again broken out between the Dutch and Acheen.

A new expedition to the North Pole, So be conducted by private enterprise, with a steamer provisioned for tbree years, is proposed. Commander Cheyne, E.N., has initiated tbe afiair. The Russian armies are said to have lost 62,000 men by disease since entering Ttirkey. Their sanitary arrangements are described by all co-respon-dents to be as bad as possible. Mr Layard, military attach^ with Sulieman Pasha's army, died at Kesanlik, and was buried with military honors.

The crews of the British fleet in Besika Bay have been undergoing a course of military drill for defending ships against torpedoes. The Admiralty has ordered thirty torpedo boats from Messrs. Thornycroft's yard at Cres wich.

Several cf the Turkish commanders are taking striagenta measures to repress outrages by the Circassians and B_shi»Bazouks. The commander at Silistria has 500 of them > working in chains.