HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8386, 14 October 1890, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.— [Received October 14, 1 a.m.] COLLISION IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. London, October 13. The ship Wellington, bound to the colonies, came into collision with a steamer in the English Channel. Her bows were stove in, and she returned to London for repairs. ELECTION RIOTS. Madras, October 13. During the elections at Pondicherry, a maritime town, the capital of tie French settlements, 85 miles south-south-west of here, rioting broke out, and voting had to be suspended. Numerous conflicts between rioters and military are recorded.

LADY ROSEBERY. London, October 13. Lady Resebery is suffering from typhoid fever. THE PACIFIC CABLE. London, October 11. Sir J. Pender, of the Eastern Extension Company intends to pay a visit to Canada to confer with Mr. Fleming about the Pacific cable.

MESSRS. DILLON AND O'BRIEN. London, October 11. Warrants have been issued against Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien as absconders. They embarked on a cargo steamer at Wexford, and caught the French mail steamer for the United States from Havre. Their sureties resist the estreatment of bail on the grounds that new charges have been introduced into the case. The trial will proceed without the two escapees, NEW PORTUGUESE MINISTRY FORMED. Lisbon, October 12. General Joussa has succeeded in forming a Portuguese Ministry after all the others who had been entrusted with the task had failed. COLONIAL LOANS. London, October 11. Messrs. Westgarth, in their circular, denounce the premature disclosure of impending loans. THE LONDON UNEMPLOYED. London, October 11. A meeting of the unemployed fit St. Paul's was dispersed by the police and the chairman arrested. THE MINING EXHIBITION. London, October 11. The Mining Exhibition at the Crystal Palace has been closed. THE POTATOE BLIGHT IN IRELAND.

New York, October 11. The American Irish famine fund if collapsing. The committee has de« spatched Commissioners to Ireland to report. AN IMPROBABLE STORY. London, October 11. A woman belonging to the lower Whitechapel class asserts that Jack the Ripper hired a bedroom of her. She describes him as a young man of a superior cfass. She saw portions of , liver, brains, and some wedding rings' and bloodstains in the room, and as soon as the man observed that she had noticed them, ho bolted. This was on the day of the last murder. The woman afterwards modified her statement, and little importance is now attached to it.