ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 39, 14 February 1880, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

London, January 18. The police fired on a -crowd .of /Galway peasantry; bone were hurt. 200, extra policemen have been drafted to County Galway. , : 8000 people in Bosnia are reported to be on the verge of starvation. Tbe country between the Volga and the Don is famine-stricken., many persons having perished. Typhus fever also prevails. The Porte, contributes 4,000,00 b piastres (nearly £40,000) to relieve the destitute of Constantinople during this winter. Land meetings continue in Ireland. The Role League have thanked America for tbe prompt aid rendered by that country. The cotton spinners ofAshton-u.nder-Lyne demand 5 -per cent-advance on present wages, and 10 per cent ad-j Vance is asked in JBolton and neighborhood. A fatal railway accident occurred between St Louis and Kansas City, owing to a steel rail snapping and throwing the sleeping car from off the track. The rail got brittle from the frost. All the cars were damaged; two passengers were killed and * several itijured. . j Ten thousand miners on strike in Belgium have resumed work. The Czar says he has banded over the administration of internal affairs to tha Czare witch, retaining control over tbe foreign polioy of Kussio. At a review of household troops at St Petersburg, at which tbe Czarewilch was present, the Czar addressed them, and said he hoped they would serve and obey his son as faithfully as they had himself. I ; Dr Kenealy is not [in the Tichborre case, which is fixed for tbe middle of February. Mr Benjamin, QC, who was Confederate Attorney - General during the American civil war, is leading counsel for the Claimant. . . The Lord Lieutenant and Chief Secretary of Ireland went to London in the middle of January, to consult the Government as to what measures should be taken to preserve tbe peace of Ireland. Tbe danger in tbe : south and west of a bloody collision was then believed to be imminent. The Mark L m Express states that that wheat crop of England is the worst of any season for the last ten years. Ex-Empress Eugenic embarks in tbe steamer Germany, with a small retinue, io Marob, for Capetown. It ia expected she will arrive tt the scene of the Prince's death on the let June, the anniversary of that event. . The Duchess of Marlborough's Lwh Belief Fund is only distributed among those known to have , paid their rent, and not participating in the ami-rent agitatioo. . Prussia is building two branch railroads through Silesia, to give employment to the distressed people, of whom 1(50,000 need relief. JSxtenaive drainage works and new industries, are also to be undertaken, r Inducements will be . offered to Boards of Guardians in Ireland to undertake sanitary works in order to relieve the prevailing distress. If these means are inadequate' the Government will,, ask Parliament to appropriate two and e-haU millions, church surplus [fuDd, for reproductive works, undi-r tbe a '.a iaistration of tbe Board of Works, and create baronial sesaions to determine the character of such works. I \

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