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New Zealand Mail, Issue 978, 28 November 1890, Page 9

In accordance with large receipts the Postmaster of Baltimore will have his salary raised to the maximum, 6000 dollars. The death is announced in the Insane Asylum, Ward Island, U.S. of the once well known pianist, M. Auguste Sauret, elder brother of M. Emil Sauret, the distinguished violinist. Augnste Sauret was born near Paris in 1849, and studied at the Conservatoire. During the Franeo-German war he emigrated to the United States, where he gamed a fair position as a perfor“er * eachor> He was also conduotor of the Camilla Urso conoerts daring a tour through North and South America and New Zeahnd. Eventually his brain became attected, and two years since he had to be confined to an asylum. A telegram from Granada (Nicaragua), via New York, says.:-_"The great volcano of Mombacho, wbioh has been extinct for centuries, is showing active signs of eruption, and the people here are in daily dread lest the crater should open and bury the town. The inhabitants are leaving in thousands—the population, which a week a Tu Unte ? to 15 >°°°- b «ng rednoed to dOM). The houses, mostly one-storey abodes, are all injured by the oraoking of the walls, and even the masonry of each substantial structures as churches, &c., has also suffered. On Sunday there were felt the tremblings of an incipient earthquake, and on Monday there was a severe shock, which caused the cracked houses to fall at Mansgna, Massaya, Rivas, and other cities, some of them 60 miles distant from Mombacho. The Government has been running trains from the district as rapidly as possible. Two hundred soldiers have been sent here from Managua for the purpose of keeping order the whole town being in great confusion! There have been several great landships from the peak of Morabaoho, but nobody has been injured. *