VARIOUS NEWS ITEMS

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 121, 26 September 1885, Page 3

VARIOUS NEWS ITEMS

A disastrous collision occurred on August 271h on the Metropolitan Underground Railway at Barle's Court, London. The signals had broken and become unmanageable, and two trains came into collision, engine against engine. One engineer was killed, and a stoker and five others are co badly injured that they cannot recover, j There was a horrible scene when the collision occurred, as the railroad at that point ia underground. - | The Nationalists of Cork and Waterford assembled at Knockamore on August 24 and interred a coffin containing a document representing the Crimes Act. Rochefort,in his paper, "l'lntransigeant," continues to demand vengeance on England for the alleged murder of Olivier Pain. He still thinks Lord Lyoii3, the British Ambassador, should be made the object of attack by the friends of Pain, and advises them to publicly insult that gentleman. His ravings are ignored by the British Government, and have been without effect. Letters from Suakin says that the troops there are dying like flies. A feaiful state of anarchy exists in Kordofan, in the Soudan. Famine also prevails at that place. Sir Richard T. Cross, Home Secretary, moved, in the House of Commons, the second reading of the bill for housing the poor, and stated that the object of the measure was to prevent the overcrowding of people in dwellings, and also the overcrowding of houses within a particular area. Two hundrod and forty friendly natives in their own steamboats accompanied the English steamer 140 miles north of Suakin on the Red Sea, to the village of Shinat, which was attacked and destroyed. The British and their allies in this battle killed a large number of hostile Arabs who inhabited Shinat, and captured enough grain and cloth to make a cargo. There was a riot in the city of Londonderry on August 20th. Forty soldiers beat a cidwd of civilians, whereupon the latter turned upon the soldiers and a picket guard had to be called out. The guard was obliged to carry fixed bayonets for self-de-fence. Order wa3 finally restored. Cholera and dysentery are causing great mortality among the Russians on the Afghan frontier, , especially at Penjdeh. There are 28,000 Russian infantry and 16,000 cavalry now in tranfei Caspian territory. '' • M> * ' The Prince of Wales sailed from Aberdeen, Scotland, on August 21, on the Royal yacht Osborne, for a cruise along the coast of Norway. The Rome "Tribune" says:— "The Italian expedition for the relief of Kassala will mass at Keren in September and march early in October." The St. Petersburg "Herald" says Russia, after a topographic survey of the Afghan frontier, has decided to abandon her claim to Zulfikar Pass. Vecci and wife, who were arrested with Signor Doridee, editor of the " Moniteur de Rome" for selling a foreign Power plans of the Italian maritime defences, have attempted to commit suicide. The "Rissigna" says : Dorides intended the plans for France. A cable special gives particulars of a bull tight at Mines, France, Sunday, under direotion of the famous torealor Frascuelo, which lasted three hours. Ten horses and numerous bulls were killed in the arena. Frascuelo 1 himself was badly injured in the thigh, and was carried out before the conclusion of the'sport. His brotheV.Francisco, took his place and killed the animal which wounded Frascuelo., -The spectatora de f c t ibe the .eqene as sickening, The ground Vjas liierally,,'covered with bl'ooU of gored horeesr The Prefect ,who authorised .the bull fight;^was 'siokehed- by the disgusting 'sight;, and obliged to leave $be 'scene in the" middle of the performance.! J'" ' . ' , , -The Bishop of Locdon ussued, . and had read ; in tfie- churohes 01/^isj'diooe^ y ( ester-' day, a stirring pastofcal pnthja^rbteotion'o! young girls* i.. ><<,•* '_•,'; >-^ ■ \