NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1068, 8 May 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

(arous specials.) London, April 25. The trial of eigfyt persons who are charged with having, by their negligence in failing to enforce proper precautions, contributed to the catastrophe at the Bing Theatre, Vienna, has commenced, and is likely to last a long time. The fund recently started by the Lord Mayor of London, with a viow of obtaining means to assist persons desirous of emigrating to the colonies has collapsed, only £IOO having been subscribed, General Skobaloff, the hero of Plevna, is suffering from an attack of inflammation of the lungs. ■

The condition of the Jewish residents in South Russia is described as pitiable in thu extreme. ' V At a congress of various relief committees held in Berlin, arrangements were concluded to facilitate the wholesale emigration of Russian hws to the United States, ,' \ Eighty thousand cases have been submitted to the Irish Land Court for decision by the Commissioner. Ten thousand cases have been decided, but there are fourteen thousand under appeal. The Oriental and Paci&V Steam Navigation Co have declared a dividend of 5 per cent per annum. Mesarß Armitago Bros,, merchants and steam sawmill proprietors, Colombo, have failed for £250,000.

A select committee of the House of Lords on the Irish Land'Aot have decided to recommend that the State should lend' tenants who are desirous of purchasing their holdings the whole money required, arranging for its repayment at rates not exceeding the rents paid at present Poyogqrada, a German colony in South Bussia, has been overrun and plundered by Russian peasantry. Bulger, Governor of Natal, has ordered the Zulus who assembled at Pietermaaitz<

burg and demanded the release of • their late king, Oetewayo, to disperse.Famine and civil war is imminent in Zululand. ,

storm was raging along the English coast on Saturday and Sunday, occasiomnganumber of fatalities. Several vessels were wreoked and a vast amount m injury to proporty was caused. A number of infernal machines have been posted to Vanderbilt, the American millionaire and Bhip owner, and to Cyrus field, the celebrated electrician, and to reiidences in New York. One machine exploded in course of transit but fortunately caused no injury. Further wedding festivities for the celebration of the marriage of Prince Leopold and Princess Helena of Waldeck Pyrmont have been stopped in consequence of the death of the Crown Princess of Wurtemburg, who died in child-birth.