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Clutha Leader, Volume XVIII, Issue 897, 25 September 1891, Page 6

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«. A rich gold reef has been discovered at Errisbeg, Gonneinara, County Galway, Ireland. Brigandage and murder are prevalent in the famine-stricken districts of Russia. Women are openly assaulted and stripped. Tho ry« harvest has entirely failed in 13 provinces. The efforts of the supporters o? General Boulanger to prevent the production of ' Lohengrin ' in a Paris ! theatre resulted in extremely violent scenes. The audience received the opera with enthusiasm, and outside the : theatre a great crowd collected, Insulting references to Emperor William's { speeches were hissed by the audience. Eleven hundred persons were temporarily in custody. The Italian agriculturists and experts in fruit growing, selected at Piedmont and Lombardy for emigration i to Northern Queensland, will leave toj wards the end of October. ElForts to bring about a reconciliation between the Emperor and Prince Bismark have up to the present been unsuccessful. An immense petroleum reservoir at j Batouni, a port on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea, is on (ire, and menaces the town. Renewed reports reached Calcutta j that Russian and Afghan troops are | lighting in the Hindoo Ivoosh mountains, which separate Afghanistan from Afghan Turkestan. j The Right Hon. J. P. B. Robertson, i Q. 0., Lord Advocate of Scotland, succeeds the Right Hon. John Ingis as Lord Justice General of Scotland. Mr Justice Collins has decided that if any combination of persons pass a resolution binding the whole not to ! deal with a particular tradesman ib is an oft'tmeH against: the common law. Sir Michael Hicks- Beach, in the course of an address, declared that the farm laborers of England are better fed, clothed and lodged than those .of the other countries of Europe or of Australia. An enormous number o£ peasantry in Southern Russia su tiering from the famine have committed suicide. A terrible hailstorm has been experienced in a district near Rome, during which hailstones oi: 6]oz weight fell. Several pwrsons and a large number of cattle were killed. The Tipperary tenants of Mr Smith Barry, M.P., accorded him a hearty welcome, and expressed regret for their ' action in the past which led to evie- ; tions. I New Zealand long-berried wheat (Sept. 17) is quiet at 44s ; for cargoes ;on passage sellers ask 42s 6d, but buyers offer 425. South Australian . wheat is quiet at 45s 6d, and Victorian ■is flat at 445. Stocks of frozen | mutton are low. Canterbury brings 4^-d per 1b ; lamb, 6d. Beef (hindquarters), 4^-d. New Zealand hemp is in poor demand : good quality at L 23 ! per ton ; fair to medium L2l 5s per ; ton. At the wool sale prices are uni altered. The Hon. H. Mercier, Premier of Quebec, who has been adjudged guilty of participation in the Baie Chaleur railway scandal, has accepted a proposal to establish a commission of [judges to inquire into the question. Sir James Fergusson, Under-secre-tary for Foreign Affairs, will probably succeed the late Mr Cecil Raikes as Postmaster-general. The Pope has counselled workmen to avoid Socialism, and not to seek to solve social problems apart from the church. Over 1000 bodies have been recovered in. the flooded district of Consaguera, Spian. The damage in the district is estimated at L 400,000. Hundreds of the people in the submerged districts were drowned through refusing to leave their homes, though warned in time to have enabled them to do so. A tunnel on the Styrian railway, near Trieste, collapsed, and 52 workmen were entombed, all of whom, it is feared, have perished. — Since rescued. By an explosion in Forchios colliery at Charleroi, in Belgium, 27 miners were killed and many injured.

It is reported that the Archduke John, who was believed to have, been lost in a ship during a voyage to Valparaiso in October last j'ear, holds a leading position in the Juntas army. It is belie vec^ that Premier Mercier of Quebec will reign owing to the disclosures in connection with the BaieChaleur i-ail\vay scandal. The Government party dismayed. Floods have been experienced in Spain by the overflow of the rivers Armaquilla, Tag us, Guadalquiver, and Edso. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been rendered homeless, and the sufferers are reported to be starving. A state of anarchy is feared. Shocking loss of life has oceured in Übeda, a fertile plain lying between the Guadalqniver and Guadalimer, through the Hoods, and the damage is estimated at 20 million pesetos. In Consuegra 58 streets have been washed away. Riots have taken place in the districts which suffered from floods, The Queen has opened the palace for the reception of sufferers at Aranjucz and Toledo. The Parnell party have founded a Young Ireland League. Newton, a solicitor, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for abduction. A million of pilgrims have visited Treves. Roman Catholic journals are relating miracles which are alleged to have been worked through the agency of the ' holy coat.' Lame are said to walk and the blind' made to see. The Grenadier Guards, who arrived at Dover from Bermudas on July 28, have returned to their quarters in j London, and will take their place on j the regular Guard's roster. The French are furious at tho German Emperor's speech at Erfurt, in which he sneered at Napoleon, and accuse him of reviling France for the purpose of hastening the revanche. The English wheat market (Sept. 20) is firmer, whilst Continental has i an upward tendency, and the American shows a general advance. i A coach fell over a precipice in the ' Engandine, Switzerland, a distance of , 250 ft. Two English ladies were killed ' and four injured. Consuegra, in Spain, has again suffered from a storm, under which the houses left standing by the recent | floods have collapsed, and the misery of the wretched survivors was greatly increased. Up to Monday 1780 bodies have been recovered in the town and neighborhood. Cardinal Manning has issued a special pastoral letter to his congregation enjoining them to rear up their children as abstainers. Faulty wools are irregular in price ; other scrts remain (Tuesday) steady at previous rates. The editor of the "Volkawacht lias been sent to gaol for n year for hostile criticism of the Emperor's journeys about Europe. The starving peasantry in the southern and western provinces of Russia are burning houses for the purposes of plunder. Sir James Fergusson has been appointed Postmaster-general. Balrnaceda, ex-President of Chili, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head on Saturday morning at the Argentine Republic Legation in Santiago, where he had been in hiding since his overthrow. The excitement in Santiago is said to be indescribable, and a large frenzied crowd demand the body.