MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3622, 24 September 1890, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

6onoral Summary, j '. — ':.?-■ The growing of beet sugar is about to bo attempted in the south of. Ireland, A company has already been formed in London to prosecute tho experiment/, with a capital of L250,00p. ■■• '■ '■'•"' ' f famine prevails jn tjjo SoniJaiW' t and in some parts of tie. country deaths from starvation average 100 t daily, " ■;• '•' t Wholesale desprtioris havd pecurred of late frqm the ltaljan 3 stationed along tlie Erench frontier, ■ Tho regiments l)ave. been removed ; ' I into the interior. At the funeral of the victims of tho i St. Etienne'mining-disaster on the t 31st July, some .of the coffins wer ' inscribed "To martyrs of labor,'and" "To the victims of capitalists.' Commanders in tbe French Army ' have notified that'duelling wjl 'henceforth oeaso to "be obligatory,' 1 even in cases where personal violence ' has been used, inornate of Nebraska is to produce beet sugar on a largiii scale. % Misb. squadron upder Admiral Watson arrived aV Neivjidiff; Rhode Island on July 31st. Twenty, :'jl four-sailors attempted to-escape by Stealings ships boat while excursionists ' ' wero landing. The crew went in pursuit shot one, cut another's finger off with a cutlass, and captured all but bree as .they were landing at the, ornedo-ston,