THE JEANETTE SAFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3555, 30 December 1881, Page 2

THE JEANETTE SAFE.

The Governor of Eastern Siberia reports that the steamer Joanottc, fitted out for Arcticexplorationpurposes by James Gordon Bennett of tho " Now York Herald," and generally believed to have perished, has been discovered safe. The Atlantic steamer Bath City has been wrecked, and ten people drowned. She was a vessel of 1,724 tons, built in 1880. The members of tho Ladies' Land League, suppressed by the Government as a seditious and illegal association, have held a meeting and openly defied the action of the Government. A gas explosion of a serious nature has occurred in Vienna, causing several deaths ' and injuring others. Tie Customs authorities of New York have discovered 2,800 cases of rifles shipped for Liverpool described as hardware. Tbo Orient Company's new steamer Austral, built entirely of steel, was launched to-day. She is intended for the Anglo-Australian trade. A thermometer known to have been in the balloon in which Mr Powell, M.P., was a passenger, h&s been picked up on the sands near Portland. There can scarcely bo a doubt that the balloon and all in it perished. December 22. Six ladies contributed £9,000 to a fund initiated for the defence of property during the present period of lawlessness in Ireland. December 23. Since the catastrophe at the Kink Theatre, Vienna, tha public have almost entirely forsaken the other theatres in the city. In order to restore confidence, the lessees of tho various theatre have formed a deputation to the Emperor asking that experts be appointed to report on the means of ogress from the buildings. Seventeen British sailors have been arrested at Now Orleans tor causing a disturbance at a public meeting. Tne statement that Mr ParnelL has been removed from Kilmainham gaol to Armagh gaol is without foundation.