GENERAL SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The captain and first mate of the British barque Gulfe have been arrested in London on a charge of having attempted to scuttle tyie vessel, which sailed from Quebec on July 2nd for Greenock, and arrived at Queenstown September 6th. The failure of the Favrars, wool staplers of Halifax, was announced on September I7th. Further suspensions afc Bradford and Halifax are expected. G. W. Petter, founder of the " Echo," the first one cent paper in London, and one of the original membeis of the great publishing house of Ca&sell and Cv., died in London, September 18th. The Irish inmates of th-? Emigrants" Home, Glasgow, broke out in a riot on September 18th, wrecked the house, and fought desperately. The police broko twenty batons in endeavouring to quell the disturbance. Sixty-five emigrants were arrested. Fifty-two have been sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and the others were remanded. j Patrick Kelly, the seaman who stabbed to death two shipmates, John Chapman and John Parry, on the steamer Erin, from London for New York, and brought back to England for trial, was on September 22nd convicted in London, and sentenced to be hanged. Four hundred Catholic Irish stevedores employed in Glasgow harbour have been dismissed, and will be replaced bj r Protestants from Belfast. It was feared on Sep tember 15th that a riot would ensue. The cause of dismissal, as stated by employers, is that the men belong to the Union, which is constantly making intolerant demands. In a coal-bunker fire on the steamship Pembroke Castle, plying between Southampton and Cape Town, on September 11th, ten coolies were smothered to death by coal gas, and six seamen who attempted a rescue reduced to a precarious condition. The fire was stopped before other parts of the ship were attacked.