EUROPEAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1837, 25 January 1888, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(special to press association.) LONDON, January 12. An important speech on the Irish question wns made last night at Liverpool by tbe the Marquis of Salisbury. The noble lord declared that it was the desired intention of the Government to enforce in Ireland the Sixth and Eighth Commandments (" Thou shalt not kill " and "Thou shalt not steal,") and the success in settling the Irish question in this way depended on the tenacity of England. January 13. Barnum, tbe famous Yankee showman, is now in negotiation for tbe purchase of the Great Eastern. He proposes to fit her up as a huge floating hotel to make occasional excursions during tbe summer months. The Great Eastern has cost more than a million of money. Few harbors could accommodate the great ship, and her engines and machinery were continually gettine out of repair. For many years she lay alongside the Nelson Hotel at Milford Haven, a natural harbor, where all the vessels of England's navy could ride in safety, and there she was occasionally shown to tbe public on national holidays. Excursion trains have been run carrying passengers from the thickly populated districts of Glamorganshire to the Haven Ueceptly she was sold to a Liverpool syndicate, and at present she lies in the Mersey. The widow of Captain White Melville, a novelist, was recently re-married. She has had a great deal of trouble with, her second husband, and has been compelled to ask the Court of Chancery to protect her from his persistent demands on her purse. He is a notorious fellow, atid the Court of Chancery has granted an order restraining him from touching her property. The fog has been so dense that railway traffic has been seriously interrupted, and to-day a collision occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire line, near Burnley, and tbe guard ot one of the colliding trains was killed. It is reported that the collision occurred owing to the difficulty of discerning the signals. A great thunderstorm has occurred at Tunis, Africa. During the storm a powder magazine exploded, and four men were killed. It is snpposed that the explosion was the result of lightning striking the magazine. The soldiers died instantaneously. mm^ mmmmmmm^ mmmmm^ mmm^^ m

By the end of the week the new hospital in New Plymouth will be ocoupied. The Dunedin Star quotes figures to show that tho private indebtedness of Canterbury amounts to about .£6 per acre, while " Hawke's Bay, with its rich pastoral country, splendid climate, and great natural resources, only owes onefourth of the debt of Canterbury, which provincial district again is twice as heavily burthened as Otago." It adds that "it may now be understood why the Midland Railway had to be fought for." The following cricket matches have arranged to be played on the Hawera ground : — Manaia v. Hawera on Saturday 28th instant, New Plymouth v. Hawera Tuesday 31st. The following players will represent Manaia at Hawera on Saturday next: — Messrs Bayly, Budge, Dawson, Deacon, Glenn, Hilles, Hurley, Hastie E., Newenham, Parsons, and Sutherland. Waiting men, Caltbrop, and W. Young. Manaia players are requested to be on the ground by 10.30 a.m.