MAIL ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 97, 19 November 1877, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

Melbouene, November 13. In connection with the Avalanche disaster, had it not been for the kindness of the landlady of the Cove Inn, the six bodies would have been buried without a winding sheet or particle of clothing. She purchased some oalico to wrap them up. A four wheeled waggon removed theia (in. t'iie pauper shells, provided) to

the graveyard, b,ut there was no one : there ' to (pillow the remains, nor even any oue to carry the coffius to their last resting place. At the reques^-pf the clergyman, some quarrymen iq . „ their working drecges came forward and pre« vented the 'scandal that wou ( ld otherwise, as a newspaper correspondent tells us, hav£ occurred, of the waggon being drawn to the grave" and the coffins shot into it wholesale. Yogel, with the approval of the Board of Trade, has presented, on the part of the New Zealand Government, each of the Portsmouth fishermen who went out to the rescue, with a £5 note. The condition of the Pope's health has assumed a new aspect. He is suffering from very great prostration. Ho easily and frequently falls asleep and has barely strength onough ts give attention to any business. A Camariela commands at the Vatican, and nets in the name of the Pope, and that period of confusion and intrigue has commenced which is preparatory to a crisis. Some of the Cardinals are holding meetings to provide for any emergency. It is stated in a telegram dated Cw»- t crow, September- 21, that a general panic has been produced in llussia by the latest war news, and that the peasants arc flying into the forest for fear i of a fresh enlistment. Thenejis: ' feeling of open hostility to tho Govern" ment. Admiral Do Hoisey has been ordered home lo oxplaiu his attack on tho Hudscar. One of the largest fires in tho East end of London that has taken place for some years occurred on the 25th September, at some oil and color manufacturer's Millwall, Tho loss was very great. Fourteen land, besides throe wator engines were brought into requisition, and over 1,000 firemen were present. A colliery strike has occurred in the Province of Hainault, Belgium. .Riots took place at Wasmes and troops and gendarmes had to keep order. The marriage of Don Alphonso, King of Spain with the daughter of the Duke of Montpensier, is dcGuitely arranged. Hostilities hayo again broken, out between the Dutch and Achen. A new expedition to the north Pole, to be conducted by private euterprise with a steamer provisioned I'or three years is proposed. Commodoro Choyne, B.I» .. has initiated the affair. The Kussian armies are said to have lost 62 000 (?) by disease since entering Turkey. Their sanitary arrangemeuts are described by all correspondents to be as bad as possible. Mr Layard, military attache with Sulieman Pasha's army, has diod at Kansaulik, and been buried with military honors, The crews of the British fluot in Besika Bay havo been under^om^ a course of military drill for deleudiug ships against torpedoes. The Admiralty has ordered thirty torpedo boats from Messrs Thorueyeroff's ■ yard at Cheswieb. Several of the Turkish commanders are taking stringent measures to repress the outrages by tlie Circassians and BashiBnzouks. The commander at Silcstria has 500 of them working in chains,