IRISH AFFAIRS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

The inquest on the death of L>r. Ridley closed lale on August 17. Verdict : " Temporal y insanity brought on by the disclooiue.sof Mandeville at the inquest concerning iiish prisior.eis in Tullamore gaol." Five thousand ship builders fotiuck at Belfast on August 21 for an increase of wages. This was due to the strike of 300 boiler makers. When the strike was announced the employers decided to close the yards entiiely. Cannon Sullivan, presiding at the Protestant Synod, at Tuara, made the statement at the session, held August 21, that the condition cf the Irish Protestant Church at presett was more satisfactory than before dis-e&tablishmeni The Parnell Defence Fund had reached #400, August 23id. Scotch lawyers ieport that it will be easy to delay the trial of Parnell'.s action against the "Times" until at'er thj Commission of Inquiry has reported to Parliament.

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. London, August 2%. Tnii tug Storm King wag in the act of bow ing the steamship Great Eastern from the Cljde to Liverpool, on August 23rd, when an enormous sea was encountered and the hawser parted, and the vast steamship went seaward, labouring heavily. She was overhauled next day.

King Otto, of Bavatia, at la&t accounts is rapidly growing weaker, mentally and physically. His insane (its are increasing and his condition is such that his attendants never permit him out of their fright. Acceding to a London despatch, August 19ch, the Japaneso Government has docidod to spond $10,000,000 in five [ years purchasing men-of-war. A thunderstorm in the \ieinity of Romonbmg, Austria, on August 21st, destroyed 35 houses. Other villages were submerged. Tin oo persons wero killed ab Aspern, and twelve at other places. Many heal of cattle and immense stacks of corn were destroyed. Ad\ices from Zanzibar, August ISth, say that the Sultan has oflicialiy transfer! Ed the administration of the coast line to a Herman Company, whose (lag, jointly with the Sultan's, has been hoisted ab torn been porU Tbo Italian envoy had not" iono»verl his lclations with the Sultan. Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana, was decoyed by iiic on August ]6th. Loss 000, 000. The laminc in Epirus lias been productive of seiious rioty. The Albanian ganison ab Metzova, exa&peraled at tho nonreceipb of their wages, lcvolted on August 15th, burned ten houses, killed a largo number of Christians, and then plundered many shop*. The Fieo Masons of Glasgow presented an address to the Queen on August 24th. in icply she said she fully appreciated Lhe oluu liable woik in which tho Society was engaged. O'Donnell, who lecently lost his libel suit against the ' • Time V' cabled hi-= solicitor from Pans, on August 24th, bo bring suit against Parnell for charging collusion svith the ''Time?. ' The (Jmbiiawon the alleged ocean steam- | ship race, arriving at Quecnstoun ab 4 o clock a.m., August 24, beating the City ot New York. The time of the winning .-•tea in or was six days and 4 limns?, hoik New Yoik to Queenstown. The forco of police detailed in 1882 to protect various memb3ia of the British Ministiv, was withduuva on August *Jls-t. Queen Vietoiia arii\edab Ivonhew August 22nd, on hei way to Glasgow, w heie she was to visit the Exhibition on the same aftei noon. The houses weie decoiated with Hags, ronsonb) , Pri\ ate Secretaiy, lof used to present to Her Majesty a petition signed by the liishmen of (Jlasgow, praying for Dillons release. At Glasgow an address was piesented by tho Pi evident of tho Exhibition to the Queen, whoieplicd in fitting terms. 'lhe ironclad W'anior while crui-ing up the Channel, August 22id, diseoveied a w locked balloon, and rescued the acionaut and thiee companies found clinjrin<> - to the basket lopes. They had ascended fiom Antw ci p on Monday, the :20th. While pleaching in Winchcstoi Cathcdial on Augu-t Übh, Bishop Han is, of Michi gan, U.S., was stiicken with apoplexy and i 101 l unconscious He died August 21sb. The ie\i\al of bho English shipping tiade i-^ now consideied as peunanent, and nearly all the vessels laid up in the Tyne 'lave gone into commission. ~ Lauy J)ono\an, of New Voik, the champion biidge - juniper of the world, loiipet l fiom Clifton Bridge, o\er theii\er A\ou, England, on the morning oi August 7th, and met his death. This biidge has the highest span of any in Great Biibriiu, and Donoxan made Uie leap without any special pieparation for the feat. Theie was an appaient collapse of the body befoie it stiuok the water, and theunfoitunate man is believed to have died in midair. Ills body did not lise to tho surface after sinking. Donovan had prexiously leaped fiom Brooklyn Biidge, Niagaia, and London Bridge He was only about 24 veais of age, and a com posy tor by trade. Later despatches — August 12— say Donovan's body had been found in the water at DeptforJ. Paincll has letaincd J. B. Ballon il,i 1 , foimerly Loid Achocate of Scotland, and Asher, toi merly Solicitor-General for Scot land in Gladstone's administiabion, to conduct his suits in the Scotch Com ts 1 , September 13th, against " The Times." A despatch dated London, August 10th, &a\s their n deep concern o\er the destiaction of crops by rain and cold weather. Meetings of landloids and tenants aic being held to consider tho situation, and the conclusion reached is that English f aimers must abandon wheat - raisin" •; that the uncertain climate, coupled with foieign competition, lendets it impossible to make wheat pay as a eiop. A Inc, attended with great loss of life, oc cm led in a ->L\-stoiey brick building on the Bowery, N. V., on Augu-b 4lh. Some twenty peioons weie burned to deabh and many seriously injured. The place was occupied by Polish Jews working ab tailoring The Pope received the caidinals on August 19. Ile is represented as \ cry weak and worn, and is still forbidden to take exercise in the gardens. Rheumatism is his principal ailiru-nt. The cardroom hands in the Blackburn mills went out on August 15th, the empi )ycis lef using to grant them 10 per cent, advance in wages demanded. Ten thousand men will be aflectcd as the sbiike became general, and the whole trade is paralyzed. The banking-house of Baring Bros, and other well-known bankets will issue in October next the stock of a company with a capital of C 10,000,000, to supply Buenos Ayros, in the Argentine Republic, with | water. ] Advices irom Zanzibar, at London, August 23id, say that an armed force landed fiom a German gunboat cut down the Sultan's flagstaft'and removed the flags. Aimed parties also landed at other points and acted in a similar arbitrary manner. llcpoits rendering the wheat crop in Russia, received up to August 22td, show the°pro t -pects of summer wheat to be promising.' The yield of winter wheat will reach the average. It is expected the wheat crop in India will reach 260,000,000 bushes of sixty-^e^en pounds each. This will insure a good average quantity for export.