GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1810, 12 February 1884, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The leformatory ship Clarence was burned on the River Mersey on January 16th. All hands were saved. The jury in the case of William Wolff, at the trial In London for unlawful possession of explosives, disagreed on the 18th, and were discharged. Mail advices received in London from China say that several Chinese bankers ' have committed suicide, owing to the unsettled political situation and the deplorable condition of the money market. Miss Hogarth, the surviving executrix of Charles Dickens, has taken steps to prevent the publication in England of the 1 novelist's letters to his solicitor, on the ground that they were never intended For publication. Lord Lytton's biography of his father meets with no sale in England, because it is said the price is too high and the work , too bulky. The irarriage of Prince Louis of Battenberg with one of Queen Victoria's granddaughters if fixed for April loth. Lord Mayo, who lately explored the Congo, is an his way to explore Patagonia and Terra Del Fnego. The family estates of the celebrated sporting baronet, Sir John Astley, Norwich, England, are offered for sale. Queen Victoria is about to present a portrait of herself, painted by the Princess Beatrice, to the National Portrait Gallery. 1 A sensation has been caused by the bequest of £500,000, made by a wealthy London lady, to Pope Leo XIII. Rumours of Fenian plots are heard in London on every hand. A cablegram of January 13th says that how, or wheio they originate, cannot be ascertained, but it is certain that more than the usual credence is given to the latest ones, and redoubled vigilencenow is being exercised at Windsor Castle, and similar care is being taken at the home of Mr Glad1 stone. The Government buildings are all guarded very closely. The Catholics of England have completed arrangements to begin the erection of a cathedial at Westminster, to cost over £500,000. It will be erected within a stones throw of the Victoria Station, The design as approved is similar to the Votive Kirehe, Vienna. In consequence of the threats of the dynamiters, an additional police guard is placed at the post-office and other public buildings in Glasgow. Gilbert and Sullhan's new" opera, '• Princess Ida," -was produced in London on January sth, and was an instantaneous 1 success. A portion of a bridge on the railway between Wigan and Preston collapsed on January sth, killing the workmen and injuring many others. A new book by Queen Victoria, entitled " More leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands from 1562 to r 1882," is announced. Copies have ah cady * 'been presented to a few privileged per-'-•bna. The book is a sort of tribute to the late John Biown, giving the reason of hit. rise in Royal favour. The United States Minister, James Lowell, ratired on the 2nd inst from the L Rectorship of S. Andrew's University, to ' which he was recently elected. He ■ stated as the cause that his duties as *-. rector, and demands of his diplomatic •'condition would conflict. Dart and Rogers, merchants, Liverpool, failed on January Bth ; liabilities, £100,000. Henry George, Anglo- Ameiican, who - seems to be the rccocnised exponent of > the Anti-Monopoly moxement, and leading advocate of equal rights in soil, leciT,tured at St. Sanies' Hall, London, on January 9th, on "Pi ogress and Poverty." Henry La Bouchere, M. P., presided, and Michael l)a\itt, Henry Broad- ' hurst, M.P., and Rev. Stewart Headlam were on the platform. In the course of • the lecture, (George said the struggle for • equal rights in land must come in Eng- , land, and was sure to come in America. It is said that the Duke of Argyle intends to write a reply to George's book on •'Progress and Poverty.' ""'' ' Austin's lace factory, Long Eaton, near Nottingham, was burned ou the BtU inst. • Loss, £100,000. ' - The Convent of Sisters of Notre Dame Belleville, Illionois, was burned at 1 1 o'clock on the night of January 6th, involving loss of life, and loss in propel ty of from 100,000 dols. to 150,000 dols. ,I?ive nuns, who jumped from a fifth -atorey window, were killed, one instantly. The firt; M r as one of the moat destructive to life and property at Belleville ever experienced. When the ruins had sufficiently cooled, volunteers went to work to bring out the bodies, and a terrible sight was -revealed. At times the searchers would find two or three charred masses huddled closely together, seemingly seeking protection against the flames. The deaths numbered 27, of which 22 were sisters, find among the latter the prioress. The bodies were all near each other, and , the Sister Superior seemed to be in the centre of a ghastly cii cle of black remains. The work of exhumation was awful, and was more than once stopped because of the sickening sensations that overcame the workmen. The convent was the favourite school, and largely patronised by Catholic families, pupils being sent there from all parts of the country. . A Dublin journal, United Ireland, of January 3rd, publishes a fresh account of the killing of Carey, the informer, by O'Donnell, by a gentleman who received it from the latter. It shows that O'Donnell deliberately killed Carey ; there was no struggle, and Carey made no attack on O'Donnell. Had Judge Denmau permitted O'Donnell to speak, he would have told the whole story of the killing. p'Donnell was not acquainted with Carey nn the voyage from England to the Cape Ipi Good Hope, and was not a member of |gay society. He recognised Carey by a woodcut which he saw at Capetown, and ,fesolved to kill him. He intended to go wifch him to a farm at Port Elizabeth, which Carey bad told him he was going to take, thus showing that there was no spot where Carey could be safe. Finding himself, however, alone with Carey, he could not resist the desire to kill him. Carey perceived his danger, and said, " Do you know jne?" O'Donnell replied, " sfou are Carey, the informer, to h with you." The bullet sped with the words, apd the deed was done. Carey clutched bis own revolver, but too late. O'Donnell fired ftft) shots, and Carey rolled on to the deck. Nobody saw the encounter exce.pt O'Donnell's companion, who threw her arms around him, and filled the ship with her cries. He had told her that Imorring he meant to kill Carey, and M§ould hang for it. When Mrs Ca.iey the scene, O'Donnell said to her, Hh had to do it.*'

HHrk>KiVerTay, which is the most proHKtiveofthe British salmon streams, fSotsrfctf an aggregate of over £20,000, and to provide that sum, pay the working expenses, and yield a profit to those who lease the fisheries, it has been calcuftted"thitsalmon to the value of £60,000 Slit be caught, say, 80,000 fish, each of HEWISSW W*' J "This ' would ssein to l^befr^iccomplißhed, for it is exIJtt^^' l(h»t tbp renUl will be higher