LATEST MAIL NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1007, 9 March 1883, Page 2

LATEST MAIL NEWS.

THE CROPS AT HOME. TERRIBLE WRECKS AND LOSS OP LIFE. A despatch from London, February lllli, says the outlook for crops generally throughout Europe looks gloomy in the extreme. No part of the continent, east or west, has escaped in the inundations, and the immediate destruction of property has been widespread, but is insignificant compared with the damaged prospects of the year. Several wrecks are reported oh the English Coast. The barque Ihyal Tar, from Philadelphia for Liverpool, was driven into Penzance on 29th Jan. with decks swept and one man lost. Ton bodies had been washed ashore at the same place. It is supposed that the steamer Black Witch foundered near Point Hall. The Agnes Jack was wrecked near Swansea on the passage from Sardinia. All ham's perished, as the. vessel' was out of reach of the lockets and unapproachable by the boats. The steamer Kenmnir Castle, from Loudon to Shanghai, - foundered in the Bay of Biscay on the 2nd Feb. : Captain, first mate, and thirty* of the crew were drowned, the crew only; being able to launch a,I oat; containing.all: the passengers numbering eight and eight of the crew. The crew altogether numbered 40. The London and South western Railway Co.’s steamer ' Hilda,, funning between Jersey and Southamton was ran into on Feb. 4, and sunk a French ship, name unknown. The crew of the sunken ship were drowned. The beach from Harwich to Alderborough vvas found on JantlS to be strewn with; wreckage from the British ship Pride of the Ocean, bound from New York to Hamburg. A case containing dynamite was found by the coastguard, and the small pieces have led to the conjecture that the loss was caused by the explosion of dynamite. H.M.S. Sultan on January 18, in a fog in the German Ocean ran into and sank the steamer Ciilibria of the American Hamburg line. The Cimbria was laden with emigrants, and the loss of life was fearful, only 66 persons are known to be saved.

English capital, attracted by high dividends paid by American Land and Cattle Companies is seeking investment in that quarter.

Archbishop Oroke writes confirming the widespread fearful distress prevailing in the counties Donegal, Clare, Sligo. .The country, he says, can never expect peace and plenty until released from the •“ red yoke of a bloated and ruthless oligarchy.” The gunboat Redwing, made a fiuitless attempt todeach the island /of Innismury with stores for the starving inhabitants.