Second Edition Latest TELEGRAMS This Afternoon.

Patea Mail, 7 February 1882, Page 3

Second Edition Latest TELEGRAMS This Afternoon.

FIRE. Dunedin.—A four-roomed house at Woodhaugh was burned down this morning. Insurance on building, £2OO in South British and £2OO in Standard. Stock insured for £2OO in South British. Attempted Suicide. Dunedin.—Robert Findlay has been committed to trial for attempted suicide. English Mail News. [The following are among items brought by mail steamer to Auckland,] Reports from the General Post Office Department at Washiagton, indicate that small-pox is spreading throughout America. Nineteen lives were lost by an explosion of kerosine on the steamer Westport, plying between Cork river and Baltimore. A scarlet fever epidemic rages at New York. Small-pox is increasing in Chicago. Thomas Power O’Connor, the Irish Laud League agitator, was received with open arms all over America. His lectures are largely attended. Applications have been made by outside parties to the assassin Guiteau to take an insurance on his life not exceeding 100,000 dols! A railroad from Texas to Brazil, through Mexico and Central America, and by the Isthmus of Panama to Rio Janeiro ia projected. The churches of Port Cherois and New York are closed on account of small-pox. Large quantities of Irish potatoes are being exported to the United States. At a banquet in Koine in honor of veteran soldiers the Mayor declared that the people of Rome would rather see the city laid in ashes than again be subjected to Papal domination. A famine is imminent among French camps in Tunis. Servants of the Portuguese royal household have been dismissed on suspicion of attempting to poison the King. Russian military authorities will organise an armed settlement on the Chinese frontier of Siberia. Mr Gladstone has declined to interfere with Mormon missionaries in England. In referring to the matter he said those who go to Utah at their solicitation, go, it is presumed, voluntarily. Two Mormon missionaries were recently mobbed in London. In Spain a widespread organisation for plundering the Post office was discovered, and in which some Post office people were implicated. Mount Vesuvius eruption has assumed large proportions. Miss Reynolds, convicted for aiding and abetting in criminal conspiracy to prevent payment of rent, has been committed to Castleton gaol for one month. The Emperor of Austria will erect a charitable institution on the site of the burnt Ring Theatre at Vienna. Nihilists are assembling in the Russian capital, and it is thought they are preparing for fresh deeds of violence. The entire population of Leacke, North Tipperary, has been evicted by the military. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has refused permission to Dillon and Parnell to attend Dublin City Hall to receive certificates of the freedom of the city conferred on them by the Corporation.