ADDITIONAL SUMMARY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 202, 14 December 1871, Page 6

ADDITIONAL SUMMARY.

Nelson December lltli. The recent storms at Hong Kong and other parts of China destroyed 3000 lives. The Brazilian Parliament has abolished slavery by 44 to 33 votes. The Cuban war cost Spain 62,ooo,ooo dols. last year. At an immense meeting held in London, Mr. Bradlaugh declared the Queen to be insane, and demanded the establishment of a Regency, to be entrusted to the Judges until a Republic could be established. An address has been issued by the representatives of the working men demanding the separation of Church and State in England. Meetings in favour of the movement will be held throughout the kingdom. By a colliery explosion near Newcastle, in the Heaton mine, 30 lives were lost. Small- pox is raging at Buenos Ayres. Last summer 26,000 persons died there of yellow fever, and 30,000 deaths also took place in the Province of Corrientes. The "Morning Post" denies the rumour regarding the establishment of a Regency in Britain. At Stenbenville, New York State, two boys, aged 5 and 10 respectively, murdered a cripple by burning him alive. During October, 14,263 emigrants left Liverpool for America. At Kingston, Jamaica, a negro woman has killed and eateu 26 children whom she had decoyed.