NEWS BY THE MAIL.
\Home NemJ] A despatch from Manilla states that no foreign man-of-war suffered any damage from the typhoon on October 20th. " A fire has destroyed the greater part of •Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The loss is 300,000 dots. The German Government has bought the greater portion of the Duke of Hamilton’s .valuable collection of old manuscripts for thb Bibliotheca at Berlin. The Paris mortality returns for the week ending November 4th show a further diminution in the deaths from typhoid fever, A violent storm raged in Denmark on November sth.. Much damage has been done bn land, and several shipwrecks are reported. A sawmill, with adjoining match and pail factories, at Hull, Quebec, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 760,000 dols, Dairvon Kun, the leader of the Corean insurrection, has been condemned to perpetual exile to the province of Chigh-li by the Chinese Government. The enquiry into the supposed attempt to set the steamship Egypt on fire at New York, has shown that what occurred was an accident due to a spark from a sailor’s pipe. According to a letter from Meshed, the Russian authorities, having arranged all their difficulties with Merv, have taken steps for the subjugation of the Saryk Turcomans. The tug Witzel, while racing with another tug near Kacine, Wisconsin, exploded. The owner and two engineers were killed, and the vessel was demolished. The Emperor William has been the bunting guest of the Grand Duke of Meck-lenhurg-Schwerin. On October 28th his Majesty slaughtered about thirty head of game with his own breechloader—not a bad score for a man of eighty-five. Mr F. Vi I Hers, one of the special artists of the Graphic during the recent war in Egypt, has been decorated by the Order of the Osmanieb. The village of Grindelwald, in the Bernese Oberland, has been almost entirely destroyed by a violent hurricane. A Corean Envoy has arrived at Tokio to apologise for the attack on the Japanese Legation in Corea. It is expected that there will be some difficulty in the payment of the indemnity by C»rea to Japan, owing to the poverty of the former country.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 985, 17 January 1883, Page 4
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