FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” SATURDAY. MARCH 22nd, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18510, 22 March 1922, Page 6

FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” SATURDAY. MARCH 22nd, 1862.

ARRIVAL OF THE JANUARY MAIL FEARFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT Appalling Colliery Accident.—Death of Two Hundred and Fifteen Persons. — While all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has occurred in one of the great northern coalfields. At 10 o’clock on the morning of Thursday, 16th January, more than 200 men and boys were buried alive in the heart of the earth, 70 fathoms below the surface of the soil. The scene of this most horrible event —the Hester or Hartley New Pit—lies a little to the west of the Blyth and Tyne junction, on the coast of Northumberland. . . LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (By Electric Telegraph) (From the London Evening Papers, of the 27th Jan.) Paris, Monday, 27th The Emperor opened the session of the Legislature at the Palace of the Louvre this day. , . . Rome, 24th January The Pope has been suffering from fever during the last two days. To-day, however, nis Holiness was able to leave nis bed, and resume h!s ordinary avocations. Madrid, 24th January The Ministers of State declared to-day in the Congress that Spain would demand reparation from Mexico'on account of the War of Independence. THE RESULT OF THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. [From Bell’s Life in Victoria.] [Per International and Submarine Telegraph via Malta and Alexandria.] The Telegram of our own correspondent is as follows Mace won the fight in sixty-eight minutes; forty-two rounds, good fight.” „