MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2238, 8 March 1886, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

accident; to the .Mariposa, five men killed, londonriots 1 MOB 50,000 STRONG. (United Press Association.) Auckland, this day. On the up trip, as the Mariposa cleared the bar at Honolulu on the 14th February, an explosion took place, and the plate covering tho boiler tubes was displaced, which blew the fire out of the furnace, and scalded five men, each of whom died. Richard Oarrow, John Whitemarsh, Eugene Shannon, and Tom Hansen were seriously injured, and were sent to the hospital. They were expected to live. James Brown, water tender, was strong enough to go on to San Francisco. A.t,the inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental death; no negligence" on the part of Captain and officers,, The Mariposa went on to San Francisco with the remaining three boilers, A party of Moonlighters at Trallee attacked, on January 30fch, a processserver named Rae, asred GO years, cutting off one of his ears and a portion of one cheek.

It was supposed at one time there would be a split in tho Nationalist party, growing out of the Galway.election, where the candidates wore Messrs O'Shea and Lynoh, the former put forward by Parnell and the latter by Healy. When Parnell O'Connor, and O'Brien arrived at Gahny on the 9th they were met by a mob who jostled the Irish leaders, and cried "To hell with O'Shea and Parnell," Healey, who arrived some time previously, hurried to the scene, and pushing his way through the crowd, said he would break the head of any man who dared to insult Mr Parnoll.

This restored order for the time. During a general meeting held to take action on the canvas, Lynch made a speech in which he-said that Parnell had acted [like a traitor to Gaiway in importing Captain O'Sheaas a Parliamentary candidate for ; the city .when, it had plenty of good Nationalists. Lynch added that although Parnell was a great man, Ireland had made him such. The§e remarks stirred the factions present into wild exoitement, Darnell then invited Lynoh to a quiet conversation, which was not long over before Lynch announced that he had decided at Pamells request to withdraw his'name.

Starving mechanics in London held a mass meeting on February Bth in Trafalgar Square, around the "Nelson monument, which resulted in a riot. The element of London greatly predominated, in the crowd, which was, ajgo, managed by well-known SaciaJlala,' Extraordinary vigi|anco was .used to preserve peace at all hazards, Oongpiquuya among the leader? of the multitude was Burns, who ran as a Souialistio oandidato in Nottingham at the recent eloction,' Ho sneered

at the police, and acted generally as if ho wished to brins about a conflict betweon police and people. He ascended the pecestal of Nelson's column for the purpose of delivering harrangue. He was well aware the act could not be tolerated, and the police politely ordered him to get down. This he refused to do, appealing to the crowd to resist interference with the exercise of popular right?. The officers, however, were determined, and pureed, their. w^y."thro,ugh' the,' excited' nisjl, and by force removed.' Burns from the pedestal The sight qf hairnets and officers' uniforms in t}\e struggle wjji ftocepted as visible pmof nf .the commencement of ft fight against law, The response was goneral, fearful howl and attempted rush from all directions to the point of intorcsfc. Burns had now been removed somo distance from the position which he had attempted to occupy, but Harvey became emboldened by the cries of the throng, and made desperate efforts to recover his lost ground, Ho was so effectually helped by the mob that the officers on the spot were brushed put of the- way and tlje urajfir soon pressed up against the tje quickly rease'endecj the pedestal aouompaniedbya number "of other" socialistic leaders. Burns bore a red flag and waved it to the assemblage as a signal of triumph ovor the authorities. He was greeted with deafening shouts raised again and again. Burns now leisurely finished his acjdress, and read a fiercely worded resolution, which denounced, thg authors of presont distress in England, im'cl (fed that Earlianienf'should' start 'public works to give" employment" and bread to tens of thousands of deserving men who

were out of wort through no fault of their own, but because of mis-guyorii-njonfc, ancj afford, eyevy fii«ili'fy W fa fimplf]ymeiit p,f British capital' \t 'Hqme, for the protjt of the Efltish poopk,' and to give British, interests advantage? over foreign, and assertedjhat the time had arriyedforParliamentto, legislate earnestly for the relief of the depression in JJhrUqH apricultnra! diabriota. The resolution also demanded the immediate appointment of a Minister of Commerce and a Minister of Agriculture. It ooncluded with a rider to the effect that copies should bo forwarded to Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, Parnell, and the Board of Public Works. The police again attempted todragthe Socialists down, and succeeded, the mob throwing flour, dirt, and garbage f(t thepolicp, After ejection noifyprßurils nor anV qt his 'any; 'fur" phorattQ'rppta'tq gef; baolc,' flioy 'at'oiice left the Btreet, and proceeded'to the wall

of the National Gallery, which thoy mounted, and pointing to the doors and windows bitterly denounced the' inmates. . This looked like an attempt'"to zs'M expitecf, but notyp to %t> point of- vio lence yet. Burns and his colleagues seeing this, vacated jihe National Gallery wall, and proceeded to th'e Carltp.n Ulub where he repeated hjs \/jsj&" fly fjjk t# pb W jn numbers, and verging qn desppratipn a fu.rio'uj mob marched through St. James street and Picadilly on the way to Hyflo.Park to hold a meeting, tho men cursing the authorities, attacking shops, sacking saloons, getting drunk, and smashing windows. On its way to the Park the front mob made an effort to onter the War Office, but turned away when tho sentinel at the entrance confronted tho intruders with his bayonet. Conspicuous among the buildings attacked were those occupied by the Devonshire Club, and that occupied as the resjdencp of Arnold Morley. The police al'on? tlie . lino of route to 1 the' ParksWuimpK': fyss °M f 'V tßV'riofcrs as if they hqd been so many men of straw,'

and many pfthp officers, m jg "terribly rfjaltreatqd fP| interfering, fart' pf' 'tlje WftigW Square mpb 'p| "rioters invaded Morley b j)qp,se and Brnasjied, aji t|e glass w jt, brake up j- carriage, using the spokes, shafts, ptfl., for plu.ha, On arrival at Syde Park mow violent speeches were delivered by Burns ••; others, They then wen*';,-: ; * . ... r .».»HW?-jig all windows, and sacking mne and beer shops and tailors' shops, Alter dark the mob dispersed. .(The officers state there must have been % 50,000 men rioting for Whb'uraV ,! _ Attempts were made on the two following to repeat, the riots, On.the third day a gang composed of thieves and ruffians, marched,up from Depfcford and sacked several large warehouses.