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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 20, 1 April 1890, Page 3

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(From Our Own Correspondent.) j ‘ Blenheim, This Day. ; Secured following results at County CouncilPictoii Hospital and Charitable Aid Board 12,i Wairau .Hospital Board 3, Pelorus Road, Board : 68, Wairau Road Board 11, Pictoh Road J Board.2, and other Boards I per cent, each. a: ,:

Particulars are to hand of a_terrible detestation and loss censed by a 'cycione'‘'in the Western, pf Cities diava been rediided to ruins by, the, fury/ pfj the ;tornado and hundreds of persons killed and drowned. * ioiiisville the debris of a wrecked city took fire, and a large, number of persons were burned to death, , :i After a house had been burned in Warsaw and the workmen were clearing away the debris seventy-five dead infants were found beneath a floor. ; •• • ®be Duke of Argyle has been recolorists that the Mother Country will- never again engage in war" i except ■-urrdhf thA absolute ‘bompnlsion of public principle 1 and honour. ; At the same time he disavows any sympathy with the - application of the Munro doctrine in the Pacific-id the interest of Australasians. ' He does not see why i; bther powers of the world should not gharC in ; the civilisation of the ‘ south Pacific.- : Deaths have resulted from influenza, at MeUidtirne. No less than 350 addifAll cases were yesterday. of Bowling Gjffeett is intact, pd the mortality elsewhere fs light. ; - ; The Californian athletic club' has *’ offered ?o,OOftdol. for a, match between J, h- sullivan and Peter Jackson. ' ; ' ipjj e atudents at Moscow been flogged -"witH'the knout, and the University has been atrPotersbdrghi where the students are agitating for autonomy " anil i for the admission of Jews ■ females. : 1 ‘ .- r • News from Brisbane states that the loss of property caused by the recent cyclone and floods is enormous. The only houses that were left standing by the floods \yere either wholly Qr partially destroyed by the cyclone.

a bill is projected- forbidding colonial frozen mutton to be sold as British. : .

.a terrible. accident happened, in the Auckland harbour yesterday, a small boa t; with two ladies-and two gentlemen capsized. Three men of the ship Persian; Empire, just In from London /saw the accident, and jumped overboard to the rescue, and they sustained the ladies till the paddle steamer Britannia steamed to their rescue, when the third mate received a blow from the paddle wheel and sank, and has not been seen since. He was third mate of the ship.