BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9185, 14 July 1893, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

Firedamp caused an explosion in a colliery near Baltimore, Maryland (U.S.), and cutoff the egress of ninety miners, who are at present entombed.

The loss on the Chicago Fair will be a million and a-half dollars.

Owing to the dry spring and summer the Austrian Government have prohibited the export of fodder. The Czarewitoh paid a visit to the Emperor of Germany, who received him with great honor. Lord Mayor Knijl lias been made a baronet, in honor of the Royal wedding. The French Workers' Congress decline to take part in a national fdte commemorating the fall of the Bastile, in consequence of the hostility of the Government. The French ship Rosa reports that she was seized by pirates in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and claims compensation from the Canadian Government. At the instance of the British War Office, the authorities at Kew Gardens will experiment upon the suitability of Australian woods for gun stocks. Mr Adam Porter has decided not to stand for Auckland in the approaching contest between Messrs Cadinan and Rees. Mr W. J. Napier states that he will place himself entirely in the hands of the Liberal party, and will do nothing to embarrass it or prejudice its interests. He considers that Mr Cadman should appeal to his own constituency. U.S. Consul Connolly returned to Auckland by the mail steamer. His health is now perfectly restored. A- subscription list in connection with the Ballance memorial fund is in circulation amongst.members of the House of Representatives. Ministers head the list with a donation of £3O.

A meeting of about 100 unemployed was held in Christchurch yesterday morning. The principal speaker scouted the idea of any revolutionary measures being taken by the unemployed, and said their best course was to strengthen the hands of the Government that they might be able to carry out the reforms begun. A deputation waited on Mr Lomas, of the Labor Bureau, who telegraphed to Wellington in the afternoon. A reply was received that the matter had been laid before the Lands and Public Works Departments in order to see what could be done to meet the difficulty. The balance of the Napier Harbor Board loan has been placed at 98. The appellants against the scheme for the reconstruction of the English and Scottish Bank objected to the proposals generally, and also specially on the ground that a statutory majority had been obtained by coercion exercised by holders of Australian proxies, and that nothing had been brought forward to justify the scheme. The hearing of the case was adjourned. Tasmanian Treasury bills have been withdrawn from the London market for the present. Virtually none of them have been placed. Governor White, addressing the Silver Convention in Denver City, Colorado, threatened that there would be a revolution if the European silver policy were imposed on the Western States.

There was a brilliant assemblage in the Town Hall, Sydney, yesterday, when Lord Kintore installed Sir R. Duff as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons.