MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, was banqueted at the Mansion House, London, o» Jan. 13th, In an address he said lie had decided to take the route by the way of the Congo River for the relief of Emir Boy. The expedition •will leave London during the present month. Tho meeting to organize the London LiberalRadical Union, on Jan. 12th, was a great success, the malcontents being entirely ovorwholmned. Tho surprising feature of the evening was tho outburst of hispes and hooting when it was attempted to sing political songs to the tune of "God Save the Queen." Gladstone i* reported in a very toy state oC health, suffering from cold complicated by diarrhoe. A number of shops were wrecked in Norwich* on Jan. )4th, during a riot by unemployed working mon. A strike of 30,000 in Northumberland was contemplated, owing to disputes about wages One thousand tinplate workers who were on strike at Pontipool, England, arranged terms with the masters and resumed work on Jan. 10, The Duke of Bedford had remitted the wholo amount of rents on his Bedfordshire estates for the current half-year. A terrible snowstorm prevailed throughout the midland counties of England on January 8 and 9. Tho highways and railways wero impassible in many places, and the mails blocked. Some loss of life occurred. In a letter written on January 14th, John Bright pooh-poohs the idea of federation, he says it is conceived in a ginger spirit, and recommends sensiblo men to let the subject; rest. The Government has decided to purohaßO 40,000 additional horses, and 50,000 Manchester repeating rifles to be ready by Maroh 1. An explosion of gas occurred on the 2na January, in tho Cambridge Barrocks, Portsmouth, doing consideroble damage. Six soldiers wero killed and 21 moi'o found and extricated, from the ruins of the building. All the resoued wero moro or less injured. The British stoamor Dragoman collided with and sunk the Duke of Condaughtm the Channel on January 3rd. Seventeen or the crew belonging to the latter vessel wore drowned. Three petitions in bankruptcy were filed, January sth, against tho Howard o Steamship Company, and a Court receiver tho Tor* poration appaintcd.