ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1244, 11 January 1883, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Five dragoons of Odessa were condemned to fifteen years in the mines, for engaging in the riots against the Jews. *The Czar has assumed the title of Lord of Turkestan. A Railway Bridge, at Bromley, near London, fell, and seven workmen, who were beneath the structure eating their breakfasts were killed, and several others injmed. The Prince of Wales has requested that Brookshaw, who was sentenced to ten years penal servitude, for sending him a threatening letter, may have his sentence reduced. Three hundred and thirty of the eight hundred composing the Berkshire regiment are ill at Cairo, owing to the bad sanitary condition of the Barracks. London was wrapped in a dense fog on the 3rd of December, ft was almost as dark as at midnight. John Roach, shipbuilder at Philadelphia, has entered into a contract to build an iron merchant vessel, the first ever built in the United States, at a cost of £65 per ton. Judge O'Brien, speaking in Dublin on Dee. 4th, said that owing to the increase of undetected offences, the trade of Dnblin was gradually decaying, and those able to do so were giving up their businesses, and fleeing from the city as though it was infected with the plague. The first arrest under the Curfew Clause of the Repression Act was made in Dublin. The prisoner is believed to be a companion of the murderers of Detective Cox. A mob attacked the Jervis Street Hospital, where Dolan, who shot and killed Detective Harwood, is confined, with the object. it is believed, of removing him. 'The Police beat them of!. A party of Moonlighters attacked a farm house near Cashel County, Tipperary, but the occupants beat them off and then pursued and captured the whnle gang. Thieves robbed the Cathedral of St. Denis, at Paris, of valuables to the amount of 10,000 francs. The Albert Mills, at Dewsbury, were burned down on November 25th. The loss amounted to £30,000. The London and North Western Car factory at Wolverton was also burned on the same date, the total loss being £lO,OOO. Sibericoff, the Russian millionaire, and patron of the Arctic explorer, Nordenskyold, has failed : his liabilities amount to several millions of roubles. The Russian Minister of the Interior has authorised the publication of an English paper in St. Petersburg.

j Stamford Court, Worcestershire, the estate • of Sir Francis Winnington, was burned, toi gether with valuable pictures and manuj sc riots, on the night of the 6th December, i The Royal Alhambra Theatre, London, ' was burnt. The audience had just retired. Within half-an-hour from the commencement of the fire the dome fell. The neighbouring houses were gutted, and the whole equipments of the theatre were destroyed, ft was uninsured.

The Emperor and Empress of Russia drove through the streets of St. Petersburg on Sunday, November 38th, in an open sleigh. The people cheered enthusiastically. Extraordinary precautions for their safety were nevertheless taken*. On Nov. 28th the Rhine at Mayence i reached the highest point recorded in the , present century, and at Bonn the lower I stories of houses were submerged. At Co- [ blentz the water forced its way from all sides into the gardens in the Imperial Palace. The ; Town Council of Mayence have voted a large sum for the relief of the sufferers in the : flooded districts. Cologne and Rouen also ; suffered, as well as Dusseldorf. The forts ■ at the place first-named were emptied of 1 stores and ammunition. The Zoological Gar- . dens were inundated. ! The military tribunal at Odessa found I Colonel Staorkry guilty of embezzling I 125,000 roubles, and sentenced him to banishment. | The Prefect has ordered the police to exI pel all Jews residing within St. Petersburg ( without official permission. The Senate als<» decided that the Jews M ere incapable of holding office in Russia. Tomavoli, the well-known banker, has been murdered and robbed in a well-fre--1 quented street in Bucharest. The eldest son of thejlate King of Burmah j has escaped from Benares, and ic is believed I he is en route to Upper Burmah to raise a ! rebellion. In decorating the troops in Windsor Park 1 the Queen said, “I have called upon you toj day to express my best thanks for the gal--1 lantry and devotion you displayed in the , short but decisive campaign in Egypt, and 1 to say how proud I am of my soldiers and ; sailors who have added fresh laurels to those already obtained in previous campaigs, and i of their devotion to their Queen and country. ” i \\ hen the Queen finished conferring the decorations she presented a medal to Baron Hogenan of the German Ministry and an attache of the British army in Egypt. | 8000 volumes were destroyed by fire on | December 12th in the Spanish War Office, I Madrid. Some of the volumes destroyed | were original manuscripts and despatches, i including several from the Duke of Welling- ' ton. when commander of the allied armies in ' Spain. San Francisco, Jan. 18. The Engineers of the Panama Canal have ■ been compelled, owing to the natural diffi--1 culties, to change their plan of working. I They find it impossible to make the sea 1 level canal from ocean to ocean, and have decided to adopt the ordinary plan, that of • locking up and down the gradients. The Transit of Venus was observed on the 6th of Dec. The observation was quite satisfactory. The day was without a cloud, ' and the astronomers at this point were able i to secure quite a number of short and disl tinct photographs, showing the points of ! contact, and the different positions of the ; planet on the suns disc.