General News Summary.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 8

General News Summary.

The steamer City of Nev/Gasfcle, from Charleston, J.C., with cotton for Havre, and which pufc into Queenptowiv on. fire, was at Falmouth, November 7th.. She will be scuttled, as the fire is still smouldering. During an eviction near Dungaiven, on the 17th November, four policemen, several bailiffs, and twenty spectators were injured. j The membois of the evicted family escaped from the house by an underground passage. j Cowatsch, the man arrested at Greenock because he had dynamite cartridges in his possession, has been released. William Saunders, ex-M.l'., arrested for inciting speeches at Trafalgar Square, has been dismissed. Sir William McArthur, ex-Lord Mayor of London, died in a carriage of the underground railroad, London, on the 16th of IS ovember. At the annual conference of the English Liberal League, held in London, November 16th, a programme was adopted approving Home Rule, colonial federation,. a> triennial Parliament, payment of members of Parliament, free education, manhood' suffrage, international arbitration, and female franchise. Sir George Stephens, Presklenb of the Pacific Railway, has arranged u\ England for the building of bhree fetean&ers to run onthe Pacific Ocea-n bebweett Vancouver, China and Japan ; the sbearaers to be 4,000 tons burthen,, and to steam eighteen miles an hour. An English steamer ab Nicolaieff > Russia, collided with and sank the Russian maai-of war Ellorous. Seven persons aboard the latter vessel were drowned. The Liberal Club of Birmingham, opened ten years ago by the Hon. John Bright, has levied an assessment of £10 on each of its members to cover a deficit of £600 in its finances. The Liberal split impaired the solvency of the- Club. John Bright has written a letter protesting against any Laud Purchase Act for Ireland, and in favour of the Ashbourne Act, as quite sufficient for all the purposes intended. The Cabinet have decided not to convene Parliament till the end of February, 1888. i The painters' quarrel has increased in bitterness, and the split between Sir Coutts Lindsay and his friend Comyns Carr and Halle widened. The aeceders nave already arranged to open »*rival gallery next spring. Money has been found, the site chosen and building will commence at once. If not completed ,by May, the pictures will be hung in a< temporary structure. The Grcsvenor Gallery will be abandoned by Alma Tadema, Burne, James, Watts, and Richmond, all of whom have agreed to exhibit in the new gallery. Carr and Halle have begun an action for libel against Lindsay. Baron Wblverton, a staunch friend of Gladstone, and the purse of the, Home Rule party, , died at, Brighton, November 6bh. He was ft firm partisan, .and donated i&QO#OQ [toward the expenses of the, Home Rule candidates in the parliamentary eleci bions of 1866} arid proposed to spend a like 1 amount ttt the next ■ general olootion. His

death is said to bo a severe blow to th«fc Liberal party in general and to Gladstone in particular. ,The present monopoly of the submarine cables from England to the continent expires shortly and the British Post office has resolved to refuse all further concessions. The Government will either buy out the existing lines on lay out new ones. Raikea declines to pay for the goodwill or for anything but th© actual value of the plant. The present rate to Paris, 5 cents a word, will be reduced to 2 cents. A terrific gale prevailed on the English Channel throughout the night of November 3rd. Two vessels were di-wen ashore at Pay well Bay. A report from Bonloane states that fifty-nine fishermen aye; missing, and seven bodies lashed together weue washed ashore at Stampes. The J>jtko of Cambridge, it is said, is about to retire from the command of the British army, and the Queen is anxious, that her son, the Duke of Conuaught, should succeed him. The Truro Cathedral was opened on> November 3rd, by the Prince of YVales^ This, js the first cathedral built in England 1 since the Reformation by the Established Church. Many distinguished people attended the ceremonies, which were imposing. An explosion of fire damp occurred on the morning of November 3rd at the lead mine at Mattock, Derby. 25 men were in the- pit at the time, live of whom were taken out dead.