CLIPPINGS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1897, 4 September 1874, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

Advices from India represent fears of cholera breaking out among 50,000 pilgrims, assembled in Pooree for the Juggernaut festival. The southern districts are still without rain. The little that has fallen in some sections has done no good. Despatches from India announce that the inundations are subsiding. Thirty-five thousand gallons of creosote were destroyed in a fire at Rotherhithe, England. A Calcutta despatch says the rivers of Assam and Oude have flooded the country, causing much damage. It is announced from Beyrout that a large party of Prussian explorers have begun excavations at Tyre with a corps of over a hundred workmen. It is thought that Bilboa may soon be visited for the same purpose. At a fire in the Jewish quarter at Stamboul, over 500 houses were burned. The Sultan had five Pachas thrown into prison, and their estates confiscated, because they did not seemed concerned about it. The net proceeds, however, were not given to the homeless families, out to a favorite Sultana. An accident on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway caused the death of several persons. A fire in Galata, Constantinople, was brought under control after raging six hours. About 200 houses were destroyed. The loss is L 500,000. Mr Albert Grant, member for Kidderminster, has been unseated for corrupt practices. Bochefortis still in London, and will probably remain there. The statemant that the young Duke Nicholas was sentenced to banishment for stealing his mother's diamonds is officially denied. His case is still under the consideration of the Emperor. The American woman who induced him to commit the crime proves to be Josey Mansfield, who caused the shooting of James Fisk by Stokes. The "Hamilton Spectator" says :— "There is now on vie?r at our office a specimen of the bark of the paper tree. This tree grows in profusion about the Lake Wallace country, and the bark seems capable of being turned to very useful account in the manufacture of paper. The bark in its natural etate is as light as cork, and the piece forwarded to us is about one inch in thickness, consisting of thousands of layers of a material of a light-brown color, resembling tissue paper. These layers are very easily separated, and can be obtained in large Bheets, by the use of a common penknife. As a natural kind of papynis, the bark is a curiosity, but it seems, so far as we can judge, to be capable of being worked up into a valuable article of commerce."