NEWS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9400, 5 January 1894, Page 6

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

% ■ . -—",'♦' ."'"'.■'•.-' FENIAN OUTRAGE AND MURDER IN , DUBLIN. , ' , At Aldborough Barracks, Dublin, a tin box with an extinguished fuse, which was on Sunday, November 30, discovered by a soldier, was found on examination to contain dynamite. On the following morning a compositor, named 1 Sheridan, was arrested in Tyrone-street, and found to be in possession of a number of detonators charged with fulminate. The prisoner said ha bought them as a curiosity from a man In a public-house. He was remanded. On Monday night a bricklayer, named Patrick Reid, of Queen-street, was found shob dead in a Dublin lane. He had for some time been suspected by the police to have had connection with previous dynamite outrages in the city, and his murder, ib is conjectured, had something to do with the attempt on Sunday. On Tuesday a case of cartridges was found close to the Broadstone terminus of the Mid Great Western Railway, Dublin. At the inquest on the body of the man Reid the jury returned a verdict that he had been shot by some person or persons unknown. The matter is causing considerable exoitement in the Irish capital, where Reid is believed to have beena member of a secret society, and that he was murdered by his companions in consequence of suspicion on their part that he was in communication with the police. The authorities are actively prosecuting enquiries into the affair. On Wednesday some boys playing in a lane off the Dublin Quays, found a number of American gun and revolver cartridges, loaded. A Fenian demonstration of considerable proportions took place at Cork on Sunday, in memory of the execution of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien in Manchester. At an early hour all Fenian graves in the co'-mty were decorated with laurel wreaths, an?l in the evening an oration was delivered in the Botanical Gardens by Mr. Wyse Power, of Dublin. A number of streeb bands took part in a street procession, and played the Dead March in "Saul." A resolution was adopted calling upon the Government to release Irish political prisoners, and hope was expressed that the people would not be driven to repeat the deeds for which these men were suffering. EXCITING SCENE ON AN IRONCLAD. A Portsmouth correspondent states that the troopship, Crocodile, which broke down on November 3, off Aden, will be brought to Portsmouth for repairs, the order far her reburn to Bombay having been cancelled. Private letters received at Portsmouth give a vivid description of the scene after the accident. Ib appears thab at about ten o'clock on the morning of the 3rd November a terrible explosion took place, and steam was seen to be rushing from the engineroom hatchway. The vessel was immeditely stopped, and the bugle sounded for the troops to assemble. Orders were also given to close the watertight doors and to man all the boats. Above the noise rose the cries of the women and children who had gathered on the poop, where many of the women fainted. On the engine-room being examined it was found thab the highpressure cylinder cover and the cylinder were completely smashed, the cross headbolt having broken and driven the piston right through the cylinder. Sails were set, and distress guns were fired, bub bhe signals were nob observed ab Aden. Ab daybreak nexb day they were assisted by Her Majesty's ships Pigeon and Woodcock, and eventually anchored under the Rock of Aden, just over fourteen miles from the spot where the breakdown occurred. THE EXPLOSION AT RIO. Details of the recent explosion at Rio, by which two English officers were killed, have been supplied by a British officer stationed at that place. He writes that a " sanding" party—sand being used for deck cleaning— went to an island belonging bo Admiral de Mello, on which there were two magazines stored with powder and sheli. The party comprised Commander Rollecton and Lieutenant Topper, of the Racer; Mr. Bowden Smith, of the Beagle; and Firsb Lieutenant Moubray, Staff-Engineer Shapcote, and Boatswain Harris, of the Sirius. When the party landed they found both of the magazines open, and men were busily employed transporting powder and shell to a lighter alongside the pier. The Brazilian seamen were smoking cigarettes, and there was a of loose powder lying about. They also amused themselves by firing revolvers. Suddenly the magazine stored with powder blew up with a tremendous explosion, and two minutes afterwards another blew up. The Racer's gig and the Beagle's cutter were completely shattered and rendered useless, and the men in them were all more or less injured. A piece of shell fell on the head of a man in the cutter of the Sirius, and made a large hole. The poor fellow died soon after he was token on board. Mr. Shapcote and two men were not hurt, and they got the wounded down behind a large rock along the shore, when they found that Lieutenants Moubray and Tupper and Mr. Harris were missing. Shells exploded ab short intervals all the evening, and quantities of wood andiron were thrown far and wide. GENERAL. Miss Adele Grant, of New York, and George Devereux de Vere Capel, Earl of Essex, were married, on December 14, ab St. Margaret's Church, London. The Right Rev. Samuel Gregg, Bishop of Cork, has been elected Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland. The London Financial Times, on December 13, publishes an interview with Chauncey M. Depew, a leading American public man, who is quoted as saying:—"President Cleveland was right, and silver is wrong. The tariff need nob cause any fear in regard to American railroads ; they will get along all right." Explaining the recent crisis, Mr. Depew said: " Business before the panic of 1893 was being conducted in the most Conservative way within living memory. The panic was due to the fact thab for the first time in thirty years a President was elected with a freetrade policy and a possible majority in both Houses. The majority which pub Cleveland in was composed of all the heterogeneous elements of the populace wanting to change the existing order of things." . Thousands of unemployed people met at Tower Hill, London, December 12th, and listened to the addresses of James Kier Hardie, Socialist member of Parliament, Frank Smith, and others. Hardie said he intended to move an adjournment of the Commons to call the attention of Parliament to tho unemployed. Upon the conclusion of tho speech-making, the crowd marched to Hyde Park. A number of black and red flags were displayed. The police dispersed the crowd. Hardie, later, made his motion to the House. The Pall Mall Gazette, November 20, says negotiations are proceeding, backed by the Russian Gotrernmenb, wibh the view of ending the competition between Russian and American petroleum, and forming a great international trust. A conference, ab which the formation of this trust was discussed, was held at Sb. Petersburg recently. It remains to be seen whether the American exporters, who have the largest share of the trade, will ag;ree with the views of Russia. Lord Charles Beresford's new naval programme commences by declaring thab the navy of Great Britain must be one-third stronger than any combining of the fleets of her two possible enemies—France and Russia. He proposes the expenditure of £22,000,000 sterling for the construction of six ironclads of the Royal Sovereign class, twelve battle-ships of the Barfleur class, ten cruisers of the Blake class, fifty vessels of the Mavock class, designed especially to destroy the enemy's torpedo stations. £500,000 should be expended for reserve ammunition supply, similar to that maintained by the French ab Toulon, and £634,600 should be used strengthening the moles at Gibraltar. The Royal .Geographical Society received news (December 9) of the expedition headed by the American explorer, W. Astor Chanler, who started oub to ascend Mount Kenia, the great mountain of Equatorial Africa. The expedition had stranded near the Equator while waiting for the porters, donkeys, and goods to arrive from the coast! Chanler's messengers' had been gone four months, and ib is doubtful if they ever reach him. His animals had died of the plague, including 150 donkeys and 15 camels. . The nightly rioting between the soldiers of the Highland light infantry, and the Welsh Fusileers at Aldershob became so serious on December 9th, that the Duke of Connaughb ordered pickets from each brigade to parade all night. Several soldiers have beeo taken to the hospital an account

1 of hurts inflicted by swords, bayonets, and rifles, which were found scattered about after the rioting on the morning of Dein England and Ireland from «*»&!£ 1 ceived during the game oi fooAall. The i Pubflaation o ß f th/lisb■ » comment. The death-roll States from bhe same cause promises to De " longer for the same period of time* ■ ■ ~ ■ ' \ Envelopes containing highly incendiary, - and threatening literabur^were^ttatbe i heads of Eton College, December **P i posed by Anarchists. Measures of proteu 5 tion have been taken. Detectives are now ! stationed in and around the College ! Nangara, London, Decembar I 3, reports that off Unshanb she, saw an on. » known steamer in distress, and started I her assistance, bub before she could reach ■ her she sank with all on board. , . H. H. Warner, a proprietary medicine » man, especially of a nostrum called Safe I Kidney Cure," and manager of a company, • has been sharply criticised Since its failure, i especially by the Knglish directors. War- ' nor accuses bhe directors of trying to diverb i attention from their own misdeeds, .He • Jays the company made £600,000 in three • years, under his management. , ' The Mobile and Dauphin Island Railway • Company, Alabama, have sued the Pall I Mall Gazette, London, for £80,000,; on ac- : count of statements contained in that i paper reflecting on the stability... and > honesty of parties interested J? building • the road. Many English capitalists are in- ■ terested, and the publications in the i Gazette are alleged to have hindered the i sale of bonds, thus scaring off the foreign capital invested. . Intelligence reached London on Novem- , ber 27 that the captain and a majority of the crew of the ship Mendoza, which i foundered near Martinique lately, died ot ' fever. The few left were unable to nani gate her, and she sank. Only four of the > crew were saved. ', . ■ _ : i A London despatch, November 28, says : the steamship Sir John Hawkins, for Gibi raltar and Liverpool, had foundered with a i crew of 25 men. # The Jefferson and Louisville Bridge, i spanning the Ohio river, fell on the 15th » instant. Three hundred and fifty persons i were thrown into the water, and 75 killed. Thomas H. Hasaotb, one of the six famous Fenian prisoners who escaped from Fremantle. Western Australia, in 1876, died in 1 New York on December 13. 1 Paul H. Hume, an absonding wells- ' Fargo messenger, of San Francisco, who de- ' camped with 3500 dollars belonging to the ' company, was brought back by the ' steamship Alameda or her last voyage from ' Sydney, New South Wales. Ha was ar- ' rested at Brisbane, and had 2540 dollars of • the stolen money on his person when 1 he was nabbed. He takes his trouble coolly, and thinks he was foolish in levanb- " ing with so small a sum when he mighb ' easily have gob away with 40,000 or 50,000 1 dollars. Hume is only 29. 1 The stranded steamship Miowera, of the ? Canadian-Pacific Line, was floated on November 12th. She lay on a reef ab the 5 mouth of Honolulu harbour. Ib is promised > that she will be able to take on board a cargo of sugar about Christmas time, and will then probably go direct to San ' Francisco, as being the nearesb porb with 1 dry-docking facilities.