TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON A GERMAN WARSHIP. THE WAR IN TUNIS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 107, 9 May 1881, Page 2

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON A GERMAN WARSHIP. THE WAR IN TUNIS.

[SPECIAL TO SYDNEY NEWS, j London, 26th April. Ludwig, Baron yon der Tann, the famous Bavarian general, died yesterday. 27th. April. Emile Girardin, the well-known I'rench journalist, is dead. A terrible accident has occurred on board the warship Manns, at Wilhelmshaven. While the artillery were practising- a shell burst, and 26 persons were either killed or wounded. The proposed remissions of duty_on ailver plate, announced by Mr. Gladstone in his Budget speech, have been abandoned. The Czar of Russia has congratulated Prince Gortschakoff and the St. Petersburg police on the action they took in bringing to justice the persons concerned in the assassination of the late Emperor, and has presented them with portraits of himself, set in diamonds. 28th ApriL The Bey of Tunis, terrified at the active proceedings of the French, and at the hostile attitude of his own people, has surrendered to the invaders. It is likely that hostilities will cease unless the Tunisians show a disposition towards further resistance. ' At the half-yearly meeting of the Orient Steamship Company, the report was adopted. No dividend was declared, and the directors agreed to forego part of their commission, in order to make up the requisite sum to "be carried to the credit of the reserve fund. Mr. Edward Miall, proprietor and editor of the Nonconformist, is dead. He was 72 years of age.