NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 918, 21 November 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(From Dunkdin Dailtrs.) The Zealandia, arrived at Aiicklaiid otl the 18th inst. An outbreak of Indians has occurred at Colorado, United States. According to the orders of the Indian Department, the troops did not fire until fired upon. The extent of the ambush wis then disclosed. Fifteen were killed and 40 wounded. A collision between passenger trains on the Baltimore-Ohio railroad, goining at the rate of 40 miles an hour, resulted in the death of several persons, and injured others. The business part of the town of Shediac, New Brunswick, has been burnt. The Cincinnati Marine Railroad Station and Docks were burnt, together with the steamer Bostonia, which was on the stocks. Strikes for advance of wages are nuraer ons all over the Western States, and the men generally have had their demands acceded to. Murphy, the pedestrian, won O’Leary’s belt and 15,000 dollars at New York.

Sia Francis Hicks, president of the Consolidated Bank of Montreal, was convicted of publishing a false statement regarding the Bank. Six other directors and the manager are committed for trial.

Two men were recently killed in San Francisco during a Sunday balloon ascent from Woodford’s Garden.

The Apache Indians in New Mexico slaughtered 40 whites in five days. Ihe body of Dr Lemonye, the famous eremationiat, was reduced to ashes in his own furnace at Pittsburg, Pensylvania, on October 16th.

Irish Americans are holding meetings all over the country in sympathy with the anti-rent movement. Parnell, the Irish tenant-right agitator, will visit America in November Nine men fell down the shaft of the Tiogo mine, California, 500 feet deep. Five were killed, and the remainder seriously hurt. A suburb of Montreal has been burnt, leaving 200 poor people homeless. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Lawson, editor of the London Telegraph, thrashed Labouchere, editor of the London Truth. The cause was an attack in Truth on the family of Lawson. Subsequently Lawson brought an action against Labouchere for statements in Truth growing out of the affair.

A party of armed masked men attacked two land-agents named Smith, father and son, near Castlebar, Ireland. Several shots were fired. Young Smith was shot dead. The body of one of the attacking party was found in a bog-hole, and recognised as that of a militiaman.

The Lords of the Admiralty have given instructions to mike a handsome piece of furniture, as a present to Mrs Grimmell, widow of Henry Grimmell, of Boston, from the timbers of the exploring ship Resolution. Grimmell fitted out two expeditions in search of of Franklin.