MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2335, 10 September 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advices from Buenos Ayres state fearful floods have occurred in the far South Millions of sheep and cattle oerished, and hundreds of families were rendered homeless.

Election riots took place at Grimsby. A mob of (>,OOO wrecked the hotel where Watkins' electors stayed, and tried to burn it. Three persons were injured. Troops were sent to the scene and 12 rioters arrested.

Some horrible disclosures have been made as to the treatment of boys in the goyernment reformatory, Jamaica, who have been terribly ill-used, only getting bread on Swn. day, and one salt herring to eight youths. According to the testimony of l>r Campbell' medical officer, whenever at liberty they rushed to the pigs' trough, and ravenously ate putrid offal and food that had been thrown there for swine.

A Vienna telegram says that in Montenqgro the whole of the Zeta Valley, formerly the richest part of the country; is devastated, and its most gallant defenders arc dead or -wounded. The Montenegrins have been victorious, but their victories have also been ruinous. Thousands of corpses are hidden in precipices and forgotten, and arc tainting the air. Typhus and famine threaten tnc land. Tins dangerous state of things also influenced the Turks to withdraw.