Bird's Eye View

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 6, 6 May 1893, Page 7

Bird's Eye View

HOME AND FOREIGN. London, April 27. A man named Townsend, who threatened to shoot Mr Gladstone, has been pronounced insane. Mr Fronde, the historian, foresees a state of war all oyer Ireland. A cyclone in lowa (U,S.A.) wrecked a Roman Catholic Church and killed 50 of the congregation, and the bursting of a waterspout in Oklahoma killed 100 people and wounded 500. April 29. The Queen has returned from her visit to Italy. . Mr Loder, M.P. for Brighton, moved m favour of a penny postage throughout the Empire, but withdrew it on the PostmasterGeneral declaring that it would involve a loss to the revenue of £IOO,OOO, beyond that resulting from the recent reduction to 2-id. At the wool sales prices are firm, excepting for high-class greasy, which are weak. There is a strong demand for lambs’ wool. The Railway Servants Hours Bill has passed all its stages in the House of Commons. Messrs Money Wigram and Sons, the wellknown shipowners, have failed, but it is expected that their creditors will be paid in full. President Cleveland reviewed the World’s warships, and the spectacle was an immense success. The line of vessels extended three miles. The epidemic of influenza continues in Paris, and its ravages are serious. The survivors of the ship Templcmore, which was lost in the Pacific while on a voyage from Wallaroo to London, have arrived at Southampton. For five days their boat was alongside of an iceberg, and the only provisions they had was eight pounds of biscuits between them. April 30. The Hull dockers are depressed, and many are famishing. A Queensland farmer says the Government gulls the people in Great Britain to emigrate to Queensland to starve. In the House of Commons Mr John Morley. said that sin«e the introduction of the Home Rule Bill many Roman Catholics had been deprived of work in Belfast, but he was not aware of the exact number. He also said it was untrue that the police only protected Orangemen during the recent disturbances. Seventy persons were poisoned at Llanelly through eating brawn. One death has occurred. City men condemn the closing of the Melbourne banks for five days by means of the holidays declared by the Government as an injustice to the solvent Australian bank May 1. Mr John Burns, M.P., is averse to the proposed national strike, which he regards as madness, but Messrs Keir Hardie and H. Wilson, M.P.’s, favour it. A thief stole the ashes of Columbus from the Chicago Exhibition and decamped with his booty, but it was eventually recovered. May 2. ThegChicago Exhibition was opened yesterday afternoon by President Cleveland, who made an eloquent speech in which he re-

ferred to the stupendous achievements of American enterprise. At the conclusion of his remarks he pressed a button which started the machinery, made the fountains play, and set the chimes ringing. At the same moment oyer 700 flags were unfurled, cannon boomed, and the enormous assemblage joined in the Hallelujah chorus. It was a magnificent transformation scene. The total expenditure on the Exhibition building is set down at two hundred million dollars.