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Temuka Leader, Issue 1564, 5 April 1887, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS. Rumors were abroad on Feb, 28th that the Cabinet bad decided to prosecute Archbishop Croke for advocding non-pay-ment of taxes. The Dublin Executive has authorised all the local magistrals to proclaim “ plan of campaign ” meetings, and to demand the assistance of the military and police without awaiting sanction from headquarters. Mr David Sheehy, M.P. for South Galway, will be rsmoved from the office of Sheriff of Limerick for presiding at “plan of campaign” meetings, A mob at Bully Bligh attacked a force of police on the evening of the 2nd March and rescued some prisoners, The police were not only stoned but the barracks were prrtially wracked, A number of shots were fired at the crowd but no one was hit. Several policemen were injured by the stones. An extensive incendiarism occurred on the night of March 3rd, in the country surrounding the City of Limerick, a large number of houses being burned, and the sufferers in all cases are those who had paid their rents. Great excitement prevailed. The aggregate of the property destroyed is great, and the district was ablaze all night with burning houses and hay. The fires were sat by armed in* csndinfies who a’l managed to escape detection.

Daring a riot in Galway on March 7th, while the troops were confined in their barracks, the mob, numbering a thousand men, beat and kicked a di zen soldiers found straggling in the streets, and chased thorn into the barracks, the windows of which they afterwards stoned. The Court of Bankruptcy issued warrants at Yoqghal on March Qth foy the arrest of Father Ifelleher end Michael Kennedy for contempt in refusing to attend the court as witnesses, and for the arrest of Double and brother and Bryan

for threatening the court’s messenger. The Dublin municipality proposes to appeal tq the ** free people qf >hq wqrW against what i£ calls tb* H outrages of the British Government.”

THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE. London, March 12. Nice, in Italy, and Cannes, in France, as well as several other points in noth countries, were yisited by severe earthquakes on February 23rd. In the former city sixty houses were left in a condition to fall at any moment, and many others are much damaged. Some wells dried op, while others increased >0 volume. Another shock wag felf op the 2&th, when people left the place. A chasm opened in the ground near the city from

which a strr> • of hot muddy water bubbled up. > t vithstandmg the fright. •nd tlw large n mod of tfice by he ;- hubiia. tn, I lie lustre open u on t... night ot t e 26th, and the College also resumed. Concerts were given in the public gardens. The effects of the earthquake at Mentoae were more terrible. Everything was reduced to ruins, and the staircases of the few houses that remained standing wore pronouroed unsafe. Large crev'ces were disclosed in the cemetery, and the cupoh of the cathedral, ns well ns the vault of the White Penitents, was destroyed. The Building Inspectors condemned two thirds of the picturesque old town as unsafe. A stiff wind prevailed on the 27th, making it further unsafe to walk about the streets. Several fires occurred, but were speedily extinguished, and the military guards on duty prevented the pillaging of the wrecked houses. Monte Carlo suffered less than any other place. Scientists say this is due to, the fact that it is built on rocks. The weather at Mentone was beautiful, and refugees from the shattered town, who had recovered from their fright, were making the most of it. There was a terrible state of affairs at a place called Diano Marino, visited on the 26th by Signor Qenala, Minister ot Public Works, and a number of Deputies from the districts ravaged by the earthquake. The bodies of twenty-four persons were taken from the ruins on that day, and sixty-four more are reported to be under fallen buildings. A child of twelve and her father were taken from the debris, when the latter expired on the spot, A woman and child were taken out alive after being entombed three days. The survivors say that the majority of the victims were killed by the aecond shock, many people having reentered their houses to procure clothing. Bodies wrapped io shrouds lay in the middle of the streets, and groans were heard in the ruins, especially in Bia Garibaldi. In a house near the city a ball was iu progress, and when 'he shocks came the building was entirely wrecked, terrible loss of life resulting therefrom. The dancers lay dead in heaps upon the ground. Many of the houses destroyed had large tanks underneath filled with olive oil intended for exportation to France and Germany. This all disappeared. The loss is placed at 500,000 dollars. Almost (he entire population encamped on the sea shore. A party of soldiers exploring the ruins in the place found Professor Rossi lying beneath a mass of debris still alive. While the men were trying to extricate him, a beam fell, killing the captain and wounding the soldiers. At Geneva the population slept out of doors on the 24th. Many went aboard the ships in the harbor, and 3000 fled from the city by rail. The earthquake was strongly felt off Gesosse, awakening sailors from their sleep. Supplies were sent from Genoa to' more seriously visited districts, and a transport left for Oneglia to take on board 600 convicts confined there, the prisons being expected to collapse. The activity of the Genoese doctors is placed beyond all praise. It was reported at Rome on the 24th that Brussana, a village of 8000 inhabitants, had been levelled, and the people buried under the ruins without hope of rescue. Villages built on terraces on the sides of hills are almost all destroyed, The exodus from the Riviera was enormous, and Marseilles was invaded by an army of fugitives utterly panic-stricken and demoralised. The Prime Minister of France sent to the Prefect of Nice 10,000 francs to aid the suff«rers The Pope sent 2000 dollars, and assistance was coming in from other quarters. A despatch from Rome gives the following official list of killed and wounded At B igardo, 300 ; Diano Marino, 250; Bressano, 86 ; Diano Gastello, 30. These figures embrace both killed and wounded. In the province of Porto Maurizio 570 persons were killed and injured. In the province of Genoa, 74; Nice, 12. At Bari, 6 ; Boallene (sic), 12. At Savona two houses fell, killing nine persons and injuring fifteen. Shooks were felt at Parma, Turin and elsewhere. At Castellans a church fell, killing many persons. All the members of the family of the Mayor of Bogatdo were killed. Of another family, consisting of twenty-two persons, named.Maltaoi, only a single member, half demented, is left. The Prince of Wales, while at Cannes, stayed at an hotel some distance up the mountain, When the earthquake was felt his attendants implored him to leave the house. The Prince replied ; “ Since the shocks are over, and the hotel is not falling, 1 prefer to remain where I am, in bed.” Professor Falk, of Vienna, who predieted, from solar observations, the earthquakes which have taken place, now prophesies that we may expect several more days of similar disturbances, accompanied by terrific storms. The 7th and Bth April and middle of September and October next are mentioned as dates on which the worst may be anticipated.