FOREIGN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 359, 27 May 1874, Page 3

FOREIGN NEWS.

The French steamer Amerique has been wrecked near Brest. The chief oiß-er was ' drowned, but the remainder of the crew and 180 passengers were saved. Subscriptions are being mode in all parts of the State. 80,000 dels, were soon subscribed in New York. San Fbancisco. A submarine cable between America and Honolulu is projected by American capitalists. AMERICAN NEWS. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have been driven from their homes by the breaking of a levee on the banks of the Mississippi. In Louisiana, a large breadth of the best cotton lands overflowed, and the crops were ruined or greatly damaged. From Cape Girardeau to Red River there are seven or' eight million acres of bottom land, ranking as the most productive cotton land in the world, under water. The product of this fertile tract in a good season is worth 400,000,000d015. or 500,000,000d015. By last accounts several thousand people occupying these alluvial hinds were not only driven out, but were in a starving condition. New Orleans telegrams state that most gloomy reports continue to be received of inundation in various parts. The whole of the Amite Valley is submerged. Houses, barns, implements, and animals are washed away. The inhabitants fled to the high land, where they remain in a starving condition. Letters from the Red River country say — "We areentirely overflowed. All bankrupt. Have no provisions ; no money ; many starving. The water over country still rising. The cattle not drowned are dying for want of food. Sheep and hogs are drowned by the hundred."