LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2335, 28 June 1887, Page 2

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT,] Iredter's telegrams.] (Received June 27th, 6 p.m.) Albany, Juno 27, Arrived :—The steamship Carthage, with English mails. She brings the following summary of European news. London, May 27. The disaster announced by cable at the Paris Opera Comique beaiß a great analogy to the terrible fire at the Ring Theatre in "Vienna in December, 1881. Fortunately, the loss of life was not nearly so great as then, but the detailed circumstances bear a great resemblance in imperfect staircases and emergency doors, narrow passages, and the fire brigade arriving too late, and, to add to the horrors, the gas being turned off at the main, leaving the panic-stricken audience groping their way through the suffocating fumes. Many lost their way, groups of ladies and young girls in evening dress being found huddled up against locked doors suffocated. Many bodies were so charred as to be unrecognisable. Many wore injured by clambering to the balconies and leaping from the windows in their frantic efforts to escape. The theatrical company suffered severely, many being found dead in the dressing-rooms. Twentyfive corpses were found in the buffet. The Chamber of Deputies voted £8000 for the relief of the sufferers. Father 'Kelleher, the Irish Priest who was imprisoned some time ago, was released on Saturday from Kilmainham. The Appeal Caurt decided, Iho Lord Chancellor dissenting, that his committal for contempt in the Bankruptcy Court was irregular. Judge Lord taking this decision as a precedent, released Fathers Ryan and flattery, who were committed under similar circumstances to Father Kelleher. It has been decided to establish in Dublin a branch of the Liberal-Unionist Union, under the presidency of Lord Hartington, who approves of the scheme for strengthening the cause of union, which he states has hitherto been Conservative.