GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to October 19th.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 316, 14 November 1888, Page 4

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to October 19th.)

Advices received in London from Zanzibar, October 19tb, say the natives had risen against tho Biitish at Mombos*, and that there had bean desperate fighHng. This is the point of departure of the proposed caravan of the British-African Association for Wadelai. Mitchell, the pugilist, was acquitted on October 19th, at the Sussex sessions, for complicity m the Goodwood prize fight. A London cable despatch, received at Montreal, October ISth, states that negotiations are proceeding for the Canadian - Pacific mail sorvice to Australia, It is reported that the promoters expect a subsidy equal to thab granted to the Eastern line, in addition to the joint colonial subsidy of £50,000. The fund for Biadlaugh amounts to £2,485, sufficient to wipe out all his debt?. A block of seven-storey buildings and a three-storey block, opposite, on Buchananstreet, Glasgow, were burned October 14th. Loss, £500,000. Four firemen were injured. His physicians, in consultation on October 14th, gave no hope of Barry Sullivan's recovery. He is lying at his residence in London", paralysed. Lord Mount Temple (the Right Hon. William Francis(Jowper), Lord Palrnerston's step-son, died in London, October 16th. Lord Sackville, who died in London lately, bequeathed everything- unentailed to the Queen's maids of honour. Sir Lionel Sackville West, the British Minister at Washington, inherits the titles, estates and £10,000 annually. Sir Richard Webster and Sir Itenry James abandoned the " Times " defence on October 11th. The action is construed by many to mean that the great journal has no case. A. rich petroleum well has been discovered at Anderson, in Cheshire. The "Pall Mall Gazette" of October 10th challenged the German authorities to institute proceedings to prevent the publication in London of Emperor Frederick's diary. Tom Kiner, the ex-champion of the English prize ring, died in London, October soh. There have been violent storms in the North Sea, and several fishing smacks arrived at the English ports report the loss of- some of their crews by being washed overboard. The Channel steamer.. Voltaic, sank at the dock in Liverpool on October 9th, the water rushing through a port that carelessly had been left open. She was loaded with a miscellaneous cargo. It is reported in London that Prince Christian of Denmark, eldest son ot the Crown Prince, will marry Pi incess 2vJaud of Wales. Archbishop Cranmer's library, one of the finest collections of fifteenth and sixteenth century literature, has lately been discovered, after having been long entirely lost sight of. " The Yeoman of the Guard" is the title of Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, produced for the first time at the Savoy Theatre, London, October 3rd. It was a popular success. The work is quite unlike its predecessors from the same source, being serio-comic. The house was tiemendous, and the applause enthu&iastic. Jeste Bond and Geo. W Grossmith were in the cast. Sir Charles Dilke, replying to the address of a deputation asking him to stand for membership in the new County Board, declared that his friends were preparing su r#h a review of the evidence in the Crawford divorce case as will prove his innocence and enable him to return to public life. The Theatre Royal at Dundee was burned, October sth. Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London, who is a native of Belgium, was banquethed in Brussels on October 9lh. He was treated in every way as the guest of the kingdom. The Dean of Winchester and many other members of the English clergy have contributed to the fund for the lelief of evicted families in Ireland.