ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 243, 13 October 1891, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, October 12.*

The funeral of Mr Parnell was very orderly. Over thirty thousand viewed the body x while it was lying in state in the City Hall Dublin. The box which had contained the the coffin, was smashed at the railway station by a large crowd of people who were anxious to secure some memento of the de« ceased. All the members of Parliament who supported Mr Parnell were in the cortege, which numbered 200,000 and extended 4 miles. Many bands took part in the fun* eral, but no priests followed. The servioe at the grave was finished in the dark. Wreatbs placed on the coffin by the Belfast Parnelites bore a motto that he wafi murdered,' and that revenge would follow. The officers of the Freeman* Journal and the National Press were guarded by police. Members of the Dublin and Cork Corporations attended the funeral.

In New York State flaga were lowered to half mast as a mark of respeot to the deceased

It is stated that the widow will shortly proceed to Germany.

Twenty-five Trade Unions have ißsued a manifesto urging Unionists to boycott Carron goods, but its success is doubtful.

A Paris correspondent of the Times as serts that the Italian Government gave countenance to the rising against the pilgrims visiting the Pope as they were opposed to such numbers of French being present in Rome.

A train oonveying the outward Australian mails via Brindisi across the oontinent oame into collision with a goods train at Carovigno. One person was injured, but Mr H. M. Stanley, who was a passenger en route to catoh the steamer for Australia, escaped without injury,

Oairo, Ootober 12. Three colossal statues of Rameeia have been unearthed at Aboukir,

Capetown, Ootober 12. The R.M.S. Tongariro sailed to-day for Wellington via Hobart.