LOCAL AND GENERAL

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1536, 18 July 1902, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Theie if intense heat in New York, and man} cases of sunstroke are reported. The infantry manoeuvres in France have been suspended from the same cause. Three hundred and twenty soldiers were sunstruck, three of whom died. An explosion occurred at the Cambria Steer Company's rolling ! mill" colliery, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, whiih inloniLid tiUO men. It is feared 3ud ha.e peushed. The foreman of ihe mine, Lis assistant, and two hie " bossis perished in attempting to iescue. bntry into the mine is impossible. 'lhe survivors escaped by an opening live miles away. At the Oxford Magistrate's Court cn Monday an old-age pensioner named Wilkie, a Gerrtian, was sentenced to 14 days' haia labour and ordered to refund £ll, the amount of •pension, improperly obtained by false representations. Earthquakes and tremors are still being constantly ieit in Cheviot, as many as 15 in a fortnight having been registered lately. These for the mosit part are only slight, and fail now to cause much anxiety. The Coronation bazaar at London, on behalf of ti,e Children's Hospital, Or,mond street, lealised £29,u00. 'lhe Tourist Department received the following telegram from Kotorua on Tuesday " Waimangu geyser very active ; tusmendous explosions from 8 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. to-day ; height from 800 ft to yuuit. The King's dinners to the poor are completed. 'lhey included one to 1,500 blind people. Mrs Seddon is much better.

A Londcn cable reports that the s.s. Waikato was spoken on Friday in latitude 3odeg S., longitude lOdeg E. Her main .shaft was broken. She was drifting S.E. 30 miles daily. 1 She had ken urifting for a loitnight. Violent earthquakes have occurred in Venezuela, The Czar lias commissioned Prince Meshttherski to visit KharkoK, Eka-' terinoslav, and l J oltava, and to n port personalty, it the disturbances GGntinue, and on the people's grounds lor co;»plaint. The British Mediterranean fleet's fighting strength has been increased 4u per cent. The Campanile or Beil Tower of ; St. Mark's, Venice, collapsed, but without loss ot lue, the piazza having been previously cleared. The campanile subsided gently. The belfry was buried by the ruins lOOit high. The copper angel surmounting the spire was broken against the church gate. The falling masonry buried the loggetta of San Lovino, injuring some works of art.

Mr Andrew M'Farlane, a director of tiie Taieri-Peninsula Milk Supplv Company, and Mr W. J. bolt (manager) will make a tour of Britain, the Continent, and South Airica in tlie interests of their company.

A large petroleum oil field has been discovered in Trinidad..

Dum(,nt and Maxim compete in an aii-ship sj.eeu contest at St. Louio (Missouri) lor i^u.oUO. The reservoir at Las Palmas burst and many Louses were destroyed, while 35 persons were drowned. " Special IsotKc " to Uaelic Societies, .cuius Cuius, and leai-ht.iileu Scots—•• iUacKen/.ie's ouck o 1 tin. North " (Taps the lave). In consequence of a strike of the railway freight hands a week ago, tons of perishable goods are rotting in the railway freight houses of Chicago. A family us feared, as the city is practically isolated. Speaking at a meeting of Unionists Mr Balfour announced the impeiuing resignatim of Sir Ikichaei LiicksLeach, Chancellor of the bxe],c-c.Mir-r, ow.ing to I'Uy, latter desiring relief from the strain of office.