MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1293, 8 March 1883, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

LONDON, Feb. 11. A despatch from London, says the outlook for crops generally throughout Europe is gloomy in the extreme. No part of the Continent, east or west, has escaped inundations and the immediate destruction of property has been widespread, but it is insignificant compard with the damaged prospects of the year. Several wrecks are reported on the English coast. The barque Royal Tar from Philadelphia for Liverpool was driven into Penzance on the 29th Jan., with her decks swept and one man lost. Ten bodies had been washed ashore at the same place, and it is supposed that the steamer Black Witch foundered near Point Hall.

The Agnes Jack was wrecked near Swansea, on a passage from Sardinia. All hands perished, as the vessel was out of reach on the rocks and unapproachable by boats. The steamer Kenmuir Castle, from London to Shanghai, foundered in the Bay of Biscay on 22nd February. The captain, first mate, and thirty of the crew were drowned The crew were only able to launch one boat containing all the passengers, numbering 8 and 8 of the crew; the crew altogether numbered 40. A gunboat sent by the London “ Times ” sailed for Murray Island, from London on the 26th Jan., with provisions for the people who are reported to be in a starving condition. Tho Briton Ferry Ironworks, Wales, have stopped; 1000 persons out of employment. The Lake country was reported to be flooded on the 30th Jan. Derwent water and Bessenthwaite were united by rising waters, and a portion of Neswick was submerged. A terrible railway accident occurred at Cincinati, owing to inundation of the river. The Southern Railway Depot gave way throwing 100 people into 30 feet of water, the cars falling upon and covering them up. Two square miles of Cincinati reported to be under water on 11th Feb Business meu say the damage will reach millions of dollars. The gas works were submerged, leaving the city in partial darkness. Russian Nihilists now in New York with Herr Most, the Socialist, declare that the Cznr will not be crowned on May 27th. Leo Hartmann is very busy.

The South Western Railway Company’s steamer Halda,ruuningbetween Jersey and Southampton, ran into on Feb. 4 and sank a French ship, name unknown. The crew of the sunken ship were drowned. The beach from Sarwick to Aidborough was found on Jan. 15 strewn with wreckage from the British ship Pride of the Ocean, from New York to Hamburg A case containing dynamite was found by the Coast-guard, and the fact that the wreckage is in exceedingly small pieces has led to the conjecture that the loss was caused by tho explosion of dynamite. H.M.S. Sultan, on Jan 18, in a fog on the German Ocean, ran into and sank the steamer Cimbria, of the American and Hamburgh line. The Cimbria was laden with emigrants, and the loss of life was fearful. Only 56 persons are known to be saved. English capital, attracted by the high dividends paid by American Land and Cattle Companies, is seeking investment in that quarter. Archbishop ('roke writes confirming the widespread and fearful distress prevailing in the counties Donegal, Clare, and Sligo. “ The country,” he says, “ can never expect peace and plenty until released from the “red yoke of a bloated and ruthless oligarchy.”