ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2011, 16 November 1886, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

POLITICAL CRISIS IN HAWAII. SUFFOCATED BY CHOKE-DAMP. A MOTHER DROWNS HER FOUR CHILDREN AND HERSELF. THE PANAMA CANAL. BOILER EXPLOSION AND SHIPWRECK. “ YELLOW JACK." . (Bv Telegraph). Auckland, Nov 14. I itelligeoce has been received by the Alameda of a political crisis in the Hawaii Legislature ; U arose in this way. A Loan Bill had been passe 1 authorising the borrowing of L 400,000, out of which the exiitingJliabilitieß, L 250.000, were to

bi paid. Spreckles suddenly nriivc-d from ’Frisco and iopisti d that i new clause should be added to the Bill precluding further borrowing until the L 400,000 loan should be pud off. On the proposition I being put to the House it was r jeoted by a large majority, the Opposition joining bands with the Government thinking the Ministry would retire and that Gibson, (lie Premier, would be put out of office, They were sold, for in the morning ap peared an announcement of a new Cabinet .with Gibson still Premier, aud three native Ilawaiians filling the other offices, and Creighton and the AttorneyGeneral out. It was at first thought that the new Ministry would come to grief for want of money, but they soon got over that. It is reported that a mercantile firm has agreed to place the loan in London at 98. A father and three sons named Dakin,, owners of a c lliery near Newbold Leicester, England, were suffocated by choke-damp on the 3rd October. Many colliers were sub-equenntly rescued from other parts of the mine. Mrs Leader, wife of a butcher doing business at Camberwell, London, after a quarrel with her husband on October 16, left her home, taking her children with her. She went to the Thames ami threw herself and five children into the water. All were drowned with tho exception of one child. As to the Panama Canal, recent official news on October 12 from the Isthmus shows very satisfactory progress in excavating the canal. During July 66,900 cubic meters of earth were removed. The average for 1886 will be 1,000,000 cubic meters per month. At the iast general assembly of stockowners of the canal De Lesseps pro nised that the excavation for 18S6 should he 12,000,000 cubic meters, for 1887 double that amount, and for 18S8, the next year, and half of the year following 54,000,000 meters, This will make 90,000,000 meters extracted since 31st December, 18S5, which, added to the 12,000,000 extracted before that date, will complete 105.000,000 cubic meters which are the estimates for the work called for. The excavation will therefore be completed, it is believed, by July, 18S9. Per contra, Senor Santiago Torrico of the Peruvian Navy, who for February was in charge of the Surveillence des Mandates de Paiment Company, says ; “ Unless a different set of men take hold of the work the Panama Canal will never be completed. The manner in which those gentlemen live is simply princely. Gorgeously furnished houses, horses, carriages, and palace cars are what are considered essentially necessary to the Company’s chiefs, in order that they may carry on the work to a successful close, and the Company’s money pays the call. One man who dealt in furniture, etc , made in two years 500,000 dollars only of the Company, and that is a sample of the corruption existing in the ranks.” Gref ne-baum, lately United States Consul at Samoa, has been formally suspended from ollice. The tobacco crop in Kentucky is a comparative failure, owing to the prevalence of early October frosts. The packet steamer La Mascotte exploded her boilers on October sth, between Grand Tower Hill and Cape Goraradean, M.D,, and then burned to the water’s edge. The list of killed and wounded is very heavy. The British steamer Juliet was lost on October 16th on a reef called “ Gingerbread Banks.” She was bound from Cardiff to New Orleans. Yo’low fever in a more than umaTy virulent form has made its appearance at Biloui Miss, 80 miles distant from New Orleans, across Lake Poutuai io, and al-o at Mississippi.