NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6824, 1 October 1883, Page 5

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

ANOTHER RAID BY GPOWB, The. mail steamer Kinsembo has arrived in the Mersey from the West Coast of Africa with mails and passengers. From Sierra Leone news was received of a fnrtherraid by the marauding cbief Gpowe and his followers into the British territory up the Sherbro River, and the destruction o[ another town. The information of the fresh outrage was oificially received by the Acting Administrator of Sierra Leone from the British representative np the Sherbro, Commandant Laborde. It appears that Gpowe was not allowed to take the town without a spirited I resistance from the inhabitants, who were eventually defeated. The town was sacked by the marauders. Up to latest account no expedition had been sent to the Sherbro to chastise the offeuders for this outrage, and it is thought that the Acting Governor Pinket is waiting fche arrival of Governor Haxelock. who intends proceeding from Madeira to Sierra Leone about the 18th instant. It isbelieved that it would,be necessary to establish an efficient garrison up ihe.Slierbro, for some little time at least, as Gpowe does not seem to" be deterred from his raids by the reoent British expeditions sent agaiuat him. THE KHEDIVE AND THE MASSACRES. Further inquiries do not elicit confirmation of the statement that papers have been received in this country from prominent persons in JBgypt implicating the Khedive in the massacre of Europeans in Egypt on June 11, ISS2.' Lord Randolph' Churobill, who, it has been stated, will forward the papers to the Premier, is abroad, aiid will not be in the House again this session. THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL BILL. The Select Committee of the House of Lords, who for ten days have been considering the Manchester Ship Canal Bill, held their final sitting on August 9, when, after hearing counsel, they announced that, in their opinion, it would not bs expedient to proceed with the Bill in the preeent session. The Bill was before a committee of the House of Commons for no fewer than thirty-nine days. The rejectiou of the Bill was an unexpected event. Between £50,000 and £60,000 has been expended in the promotion of a measure which both its friends and those who opposed it regarded as on the eve of success. THE MURDER OF JAMES CAREY. Meßsre. Donald Curria and Co. have, at [ the request of the Colonial Office, ascertained r'by telegraph the precise position of their steamer, the Melrose Castle, at the time of James Carey's murder on board that vessel, and have communicated the details to the Government. It appears that when Carey was shot the steamer was in lat. 34deg. 33 inin. S., long. 21deg. 55min. E., or 12J miles from Cape Vacca (which was the nearest land), and 25 miles south-west from Mossel Bay, which is the principal point on the coast between Cape Town and Algoa Bay. As the murder was therefore committed more than three miles from land, it will be treated in the legal sense as having been committed on "the high seas," and therefore- not necesjarily within Colonial jurisdiction. IMITATING CAPTAIN WEBB. Another attempt is to be made to swim the Niagara Rapids by a man named Bibbero, whu was prestnt at the attempt made by the late Captain Webb. Bibbero, who is a professional swimmer, and known in the swimming world as " Marquis Bibbtro," proposes having a dummy figure constructed about his own weight and his size, and to cast the dummy into the Rapids before making the attempt. B> this means he hopes to ascertain the strength and tendency of the whirlpool. Bibbero has arrived in England, ■ where the dummy is to be made; and, ponding the completion, he will practise daily in the Thames and the sea, Bwimming against the strongest tides. AN ELECTRICAL OMNIBUS. A Paris' telegram says that experiments were made on FrWay at the JPlace de la Concorde with one oi the omnibus company's large three-horse vehicles. Itwa's driven by electricity at a rate superior to that at which omnibuses generally go, and was turned with surprising facility. At five o'clock M. CoChery, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, M. de Less=ps, MM. Dietz, Rouvier, Blanchard, Burgues, Colonel Barolez, and several gentlemen got into the omnibus, which, to the astonishment of a large crowd, was seen to move off rapidly without horses. The mechanism by which it was propelled was simple. Faure accumulators, weighing two thousand five hundred kilogrammes, and giving out a force of seventy-two horsepower, bad been placed under the seats and put in communication with a Siemens machine fixed under thu vehicle. SAD BOATING ACCIDENT. A aad boating accident has occurred at Skegness, a watering place on the Lincolnshire coaj!. of the Wash, by whicu it is feared at least eight or ten persons have lost their lives. On Saturday a large number of excursionists from Sheffield and Nottingham visited the place, and in the afternoon a number, arranged to Lave a sail. Aβ it was low water,- the steamer which gave the "seatiipa" could not get close to the pier, and a boat was engaged to carry thy passengers from the landing stage to the vessel, a distance of about 150 yards. This boat started for the steamer with fifteen or sixteen persons, including two orthiee women, and it appeared to be much overladen, and when about seventy yards from the steamer it capsixed, and thd whole of the party were thrown into the water, which, at that point,• \ras eight or cine feet deep. It waa almost impossible to render assistance, and eight or ten persons who were iu the boat are J missing, and it is supposed that they have I been drowued. , THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. Sir Edward Watkin intends, it is etated, to call'a meetint of the shareholders in his Channel tuunel project. He will propose that a contract sliall be made to keep in order the existing works for the construction of tho tunnel, and tUat about half the capital shall be returned to the shareholdera. HORRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Five chiidr n were on Wednesday night murdered by their father at Walthamatow. No motive ia assigned for the murder except that the man had buen heard to complain of his wife having bone children too qnickly. When arrested ho said that he was happy, and that his wife would be a single woman hereafter. The murderer was a blacksmith, named William Gouldstone. A PLAGUE SPOT IN EGYPT. In a lunatio asylum at Abbassieh there wore in four days 32 cases ot cholera out of 270 inmates. There seems to have been no attempt at medical treatment for the wretched inmates, the cold water douche beiug the only remedy applied/, by tbe officials. The for thn violent pati:-nts was simply an iron-barred cage, with an unpadded atone floor and walls. There wore absolutely no sanitary arrangement, the patients living in the accumulated filth of months. The Standard correspondent says the two thousand inmates were in such a condition of filth that it was impossible to stay more than a few minutes in any of the rooina. There were thirty-two women, two of whom were going about gibbering iu a condition of absolute nudity. FRENCH ROYALIST PLOT. Five arrests have been made in Paris of men charged with implication in a Royalist conspiracy. The conspirators, whose object wae to overturn the Republic and replace it by a Monarchy, were, it is said, in the habit of meeting nightly in Avenue MaoMahon in Paris, where some police agents, in disguise, succeeded in penetrating. Arrangements, it is stated, bad been made to purchase 25,000 muskets for a popular rising, and attempts had also been made to tamper with the army. THE CHOLERA. The mortality from cholera in Egypt still continues to be very great. The total number of deaths from that cause up to August 9 waa 16,-148, of which. 6366 occurred in Cairo. Great complaints are made of the inefficiency of the natiye doctors and the neglect of sanitary precautions. ~ FRANCE AND CHINA. Telegraphing on August 9 the Hong Kong correspondent of the Times says:—l have visited .Canton; and had .an interview with Tseng. He ,was : very - : cautious, and said there were no Chinese troops inside Tonquin and none on the frontier, but the Yunnan and Kwangsi garrisons were strong. I am privately informed that the garrisons have been greatly strengthened, . the trobpa secretly passing through the Kwangtuug

province. In Canton great \. I - „- grain and riceiiare being stoxeo\ I jnpression gains ground that China * lin /ig a waiting game, costing France»H ]!■? and China little. , \IJ GROUNDING OF H.-M.S. AUDACIOUS. Details have.been received from Chefoe of the grounding of Her Majesty's aaip Auda- ! cious.' Oping to*the shock in $rr/und]'ng, th'e officers'tables were cleared offlishes, etc., and the lower deck was in a of utter confusion." A marine named Jatnes Hickey, belonging to Bath, seeing a blaze from the fat which was capsized on the admiral's galley fire, thought the ship was on fi£e, and rushed back to the mess-deck and junjiped out of a i porthole. T.wo other followed his ' example, and one of them, n/imed Thomas Gaffney, of Newcastle, was swept away by the tide and drowned, with jjames Hickey. The other, named Samuel Cooper, managed to return on board. motning the' Audacious, while at anchor, touched again, but the port anchor was let /go, and she was brought into deep water, j