FURTHER MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 133, 5 June 1879, Page 2

FURTHER MAIL NEWS.

DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE, SHIPWRECKS, FLOODS AND EIRES. Stanton, the Canadian rower, won the sculling race at Newcastle on Tyno against .Howden amidst a scene of excitement unequalled in the history of Tyne towing matches. Both men appeared to be in splendid condition but Howden was badly out-rowed from the start, and his adversary took his time all through the race winning with ease by four lengths. He was cheered all along the course. A congratulatory telegram waa subsequently received by Stanton from the Marquis of Lome. In the House of Commons Mr Rylands, a liberal, moved a resolution censuring the increased expenditure of the Government, Mr Baxter in seconding the motion warned the House Rgainst placing too implicit faith in England^ supremacy in arts and commerce, and instanced the enormous advance made by America in inventions and arts. fc.The steamer Nile, bound from Elva to Newport with a cargo has been lose and three only out of a crew of, twenty-three were saved. John Bright, in an address to bis Birmingham constituents said " The Government are imbecile at home, and turbulent and wicked abroad, and I leave them to the judgment of the constituencies and the heavy condemnation of history." The steamer Humboldt reports having met with the Gladiolus, Captain Williams, water-logged. She managed to rescue one man from the wreck btifc the rest wero washed overboard ana drowned. The Yorkshire miners are about to discuss the propriety of stopping all mining for four or five weeks, so as to lessen the output. The British Pacific Squadron will cruise off Peru and Chili while hostilities are pending. The Standard says that the Khedive cannot pay interest on his debts either by fair means or foul. A fireworks factory in France exploded, and seven were killed. Frejcb war vessels are ordered .to Egypt with a view to eventualities. Captain B. Mack is appointed German Consul-General at Samoa to push, German interests. Bismarck has asked leave to prosecute Deputy Hasselman for smuggling prohibited newspapers into the Empire. The Nihilists have abducted and detained Governor Charkoff as a hostage to secure leniency to the Nihilist prisoners. Several thousand suspected revolutionists have been arrested at Kharkofi and Kieff. One of the repressive measures of the Czar is giving despotic power to the GovernorsGeneral of the moat populous districts in Russia. Thousands of political prisoners are being sent from St. Petersburg to Eastern SiberiaPeople are being arrested in batches at all hours of the day on the most frivolous grounds. t The Golos reports that it is intended to send 12,000 persons with their families from Novgorod to Siberia. 4700 political prisoners were removed from Fort Petropolowski in one night, and removed to Eastern prisoua. Disastrous floods' have occurred in the • Mosteta and Dwina livers, axA H railway I bridges have been destroyed,

Orenburg, on the Ural River, bas teen I almost destroyed by fire. Tweuty-one viHages, containing 932 houses, were totally destroyed by an earthquake in Persia, and about 500 head of stock were killed, including oxen, horses, sheep, and camels. The people of Lebanon threaten a civil war. Starving Xfahoniedans are plundering the shops in Adrianople. One hundred square miles of country have beeli again submerged Jn Austrp-Huugary. .117 miners were killed hear tielgiuni by a fire damp e&ploston. Toe steamer Great tlepiiblic. built at New York in I'BM for the Pacific Mail Company, and which cost nearly a million dollars, has become a total wreck at Long Island. Eleven seame.i were drowued. The cause of the wreck was (he pilot's over-confidence; the night being clear, and not stormy, and the sea was like a millpond. A gale set in the next day, and broke the ship to pieces. The cargo was totally lost. The hull was insured for fifty-eight thousand dollars. By this wreck the South British loses twenty five thousand dollars, arid tbe Standard (New Zealand) fifty thousand dollars.