ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 39, 21 October 1871, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL ITEMS.

WALTER MONTGOMERY’S SUICIDE.

London, September 2.—Walter Montgomery, the well known actor, who had recently returned from a professional visit to the United States, shot himself last night. Montgomery was married last Wednesday to an American lady.

DESPERATE RIOT IN DUBLIN

Dublin, 13 th September. A monster demonstration' was held tonight with a vast procession. One hundred thousand people were present at a meeting held in Phoenix Park. Messrs Smith, Butt, and Nolan spoke, and resolutions demanding the release of the Fenians were adopted. As the people were returning, a collision occurred. The police drew their staves, and the people used sticks and stones. I he latter were gradually dispersed. Many arrests have been made. September 4. —lt is proved that the number of police injured in the riot yesterday is exaggerated. Only six are badly injured, and eighteen slightly. Twentyseven of the rioters were arrested. There were disorderly persons in the streets all night singing seditious songs, and the police station was smeared with the blood of the wounded. Smith, M.P., presided at the Phcenix Park (Dublin) large meeting. The police were invisible. In returning, the mob encountered the police patrol. A fierce fight ensued. Fifty constables were injured and many prisoners taken. A publichouse at the corner of Queen street was wrecked. September s.—There was fighting all night. The police, driven to their barracks, received reinforcements and charged the crowd desperately. They were driven into the barracks again, however, and the rally was repeated several times, but with the same result. A bar of iron thrown from a public-house at the police, led to the entering of the house and capturing its inmates. An attempt was made to rescue them by the mob, and, in the battle which followed, the house was completely' wrecked by the mob in its frantic rage. Half of the policemen engaged in the affray were injured. The prisoners sang national songs all night. There is great excitement, and it is increasing. The prisoners were cheered, and the police hissed. The women helped the rioters. THE CHOLERA IN PRUSSIA. London, September 7. —The cholera epidemic in the Baltic Provinces of Prussia begins to abate. At Konigsberg, where the disease has been most virulent, there were thirty new cases and twenty-eight deaths on the 4th, and on the 5 th there were only seventeen new cases and fifteen deaths. There has been been but one fatal case at Stettin, and at Dantzic the disease has been pronounced sporadic. The few

cases of cholera that have occurred at Paris and in this city are now said to have been of a different type from the Asiatic scourge. The anxiety which was felt in Berlin and throughout Germany is decreasing, and it is confidently hoped the precautions taken, aided by the approach of cold weather, will stay the progress of the epidemic. THE TREATY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. New York, September 12.—The following are the principal conditions of the treaty made between Russia and Versailles early this year:—Should Austria be involved in war by intervention or otherwise, Russia will act with the Germans, furnishing a specified number of troops and ships. The contracting powers were to make peace only on the following terms :—Austria was to renounce in favor of Germany all Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, the Duchy of Salzburg. Austria was to renounce in fa* T or of Russia the provinces of Gallicia and Dalmatia. When these changes became accomplished facts Russia was to cede to Germany five towns and harbors on the Baltic Sea, and a part of Courland. Prussia was to regard the Treaty of Paris as null; to pledge herself to armed participation in conquests in the East with a force equal to Russia, and to subsequent partition of the conquered territory. Prussia was fooled as was France in 1866, A POLISH DEMONSTRATION. London, September B.—A correspondent writing on August 17 from Lemburg. in Poland, the ancient capital of that country, says a grand demonstra tion of the Slavic race had been held there in commemoration of the anniversary of the dismemberment of the Kingdom. Delegates were present from every part of the country. Great enthusiasm was manifested; some 500 people walked in procession to the mound near the city to visit Kopiec. The ancient memorial of the nation is humiliation. Many of the Russian authorities regarded the celebration with suspicion, and the event is thought to have a significance as evidence of an outburst on the part of the people for the independence of Poland. THIS FAMINE IN PERSIA. New York, September 6.—A correspondent of a London paper, writing from Shiraz, under date June says:—“ The famine in Persia may now be said to have come to an end, but the distress caused by it will continue for a long time. The price of bread has fallen considerably, but all the property of the poorer classes, excepting only necessary clothing has long since been sold or exchanged for bread, and it is but too evident that starvation will be the fate of a great many more. On the road from Bushire to Shiraz one can see at many places half interred bodies. At a caravanserai, about thirty miles from Shiraz, many people (it is stated two hundred) died of starvation in one week. Kazeroon, a town eight miles from Shiraz, is half depopulated ; many of its inhabitants went to Shiraz, Bushire, or other large towns. Great numbers died on the roads ; and on the highways crowds of beggars in the last stage of destitution waylay travellers. Sanguinary fights, often resulting in the loss of life, takes place over the carcasses of mules, donkeys, or horses, which die on the road. ’ Robberies with violence are frequent. At Yezed and Kerman the famine raged more than anywhere else. In a letter dated Yezed, April, it was stated that corpses had been resorted to for food, and in many cases children have been killed and devoured by parents.” THE TICBORNE BARONETCY. New York, September 6.-—Advices state that that the Tichborne claimant creates great excitement in England, wherever he goes. At Liverpool his lodgings were continually surrounded by a curious throng, and when he appeared at the windows a great cheer was set up. The managers of theatres invite him to accept boxes. Ali trades and traffics run him down, but so far he does not seem to let the disagreeable attentions wear on him. Elis face is fat and ruddy, and he is in continual good humor. There is no restraint placed on his movements, though he is well aware that private detectives follow him like his shadow. New York, September 11.—The Liverpool “ Courier” has a story of a

gentleman, formerly a commercial traveller in Australia, who, some years ago, was lost in the woods, and found shelter in a herdsman’s hut, where the herdsman, in the course of conversation, declared that he was the son of a baronet. The gentleman subsequently returned to England, and, when the Tiehborne case was being heard, he re- ! cognised the claimant as the herdsman of Australia. He afterwards had an interview with Tiehborne, and it is said he will be a witness for him when the case is resumed. THE EXPLOSION AT WIGAN. London, September 6.—A terrible explosion occurred this morning in a coal mine near the town of Wigan, in Lancashire. Some 50 persons who were on the seam of the mine were cut off from communication with the outer world, and it is feared all are suffocated. A party sent down to ascertain the condition of the men who have been burned alive are still in the mine, and have, it is thought, perished. The neighborhood of the disaster is thronged with the relatives and acquaintances of the supposed victims, and the scenes are of the most heartrending description. Details are awaited with anxiety. The number of the killed by the explosion is 69. There have been two more explosions in the mine. The shaft has been bricked up.