LATEST NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 30 July 1881, Page 3

LATEST NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

The Wreck of the Samson. New Plymouth, La»t Night. A rRKUMiNTABV enquiry into the wreck of the p.s. Samson was held at Waitara today. Eviilcuce was taUen to the effect that the Samson arrived at Waitara on Saturday evening, and without waiting for signals, the captain took the steamer over the bar. A short, time after the Samson grounded, and the heavy current down the river drove her upon the wreck of the Patterson, and a hole waa driven in her bottom, rendering her a total wreck.

A coloured woman named Eliza Cowan, living At a place called Martin's ©epot, in Lauren's County, S. 0., was on April H hanged by the mob for burning a bam owned by * planter named Blalook, and also foe attempting to burn his house. An elegant little volume, memorial, personal, and critical, of Adelaide Neilson, has been" issued in London. The Nie§ victims ate now known to has* eonstßWd of thirty-Bix Frenchmen, twenty I&liaW, three Englishmen, one German, and one whose nationality is a mystery. The Spectator^ speculating on the ultitnate increase of French territory in Africa, observes that, ''the world, ami especially Europe, would directly benefit through' the conquest of Tunis by France. If Northern Africa were in capable hands, it"^nighibr v teoeive r the whole overspill of" Southern Europe, and in tyro centtiriet ■ show vi ft new Spain, anew France* a new i Italy, and a new* Greece, all flourishing an.dUtt sivilifled. ! It! this French: have no right in Tunis, our rights in Aaia or in New ZctUad «in«{iofc{b«^ofel»ll^in»lnt»iaed. >T