GENERAL SUMMARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 626, 14 February 1879, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

' '". "'; L'OtfDON. . ■;/"'; : • January 30. The distress is; fearful m the. manufacturing arid the agricultural 1 'districts* ■ Five hundred agricultural immigrants have left m a body for New Zealand. Sir Willifiin Hayler hfts been found drowned m a lake on his estate. The. Town, Council of Cp,rk absolutely [ . f ef rised General" Grant 'a^re : c6ptio"ir, A ana' 6harged 'him witfr anti-Cdtholfc sentiments.' ■''■''•■ .:■.•.'.!... Belfast and other northern cities made more elaborate manifestations m honour of him as a consequence. ' ! European capitalists have refused . Russia a loan^ : unless her. armieja m Turkey - are > withdrawn $r , and . no fresh : war,. in/, Asia, undertaken ;, and artides i.iof! ' aj.-. definite .tajeaty agreed to^ withjtheiißoKtte^rriThese .have;, been accepted by Russia, and the latter reduces the indemnit#lto.TG)O,OOO,OOO roubles!'; The,.Gi;eat(Qquncil at .Geneyp, .Switzerland, accepted the principles of separation of Cihqrpixi'aiid State.' ..",;■; ;l The Duke of^ Cumberland left Copenhagen because !Prussia expressed diß- # pleasure there. ,' „, A sensatron^fumbur says Prussia ij^ negotiating for the renunciation by the! t)uke of his, i'ight to Hanover, m return for the cession of Northern Sehleswig to Denmark. . . ' " ' ' ' The revenue of Great Britain shows an increase of £1,803,485, for 1878; over, the preceding year. ; England and Scotland have suffered, from heavy floods. The country around Darlington and Wrexham is. submerged for many miles. . „! -:^ vlcetihas floated down the Thames, and steamboat traffic between Chelsea and Woolwich suspended. Many river barges are'yfrozen m. ■• '• ■•'■'- ;i, I „ . Rumour has been renewed, that the Duke of Connaught will become Viceroy of Irelend. The Duke of Edinburgh will shortly. be appointed Admiral.. on the: Noijfch American station, and will, repair 'to' Halifax, with the, Ducheßs m the early part of the summer. : The Princess Mary Xichtenstein, for-r Up,erly Miss Fox, the adopted daughter of Lor,d Holland, and authoress of several works, died recently m Syria. An attempt by an insane man has been.made oh ; ihe Jife of the Emperor of ' Austria. 1 An h'otel>k'e'ep'eir of ' 'Copenhagen, has been- arrested for threatening the life of tih'e' Danish King. ■ ' ; The Marquis Tweedale'is dead. ' . Dean Stanley has been so miich pleased ; with his visit to ; America, that He announced his ! intention to return '■ at an, early day, ' • ' ■-■ : '' Jf 'Sir Jatheft Fitzjames-^tephen has jbefa./apppinted^ Judge, of ..tb,e; .jHigh Oouijt at of'jiisticiary, in' place of Sir Anthony Cleasby- who has resigned. . ' Mr. Ward, a London artist,, has, commjt^edlsuicide; ' M : A. ; 'fearful explosion has occurred ' at ' Hind's colliery 'in the RhblidH 1 Valley, near Po'ntypridd,' 1 Wales; on the 13th. The roqf,of, the building fell, closing the entrance" to' "'tne' shaft, and shutting off ventilation. Sixty persons 1 m the pit perished. ; ... , ,Cr.eightonßro3, ofJJewcastle-on-Tyne, merchanfs ; MoßTay' and .OKirkiwop^, printers^ Gjlasgow^-^Comas and Co.',' merchants','" London, 'have failed, the latter for £80,000. Booker and Co., Glamorgan, „ iron masters^ , have also failed for £60,000. ..; ■ Every member of the North Wales Miners' Union, whp desires to, emigrate to America, is promised £7, and those who go to Australia receive £14. North Wales State Quarry Men's Union offer the sanie' ieTms": "It is believed that many will accept as most of the smaller quarries remain closed. ■■'• . . Two . thousand four hundred Communists have been pardoned. The President intends pardoning all but the ringleaders, who number abont 400. Bismarck has introduced a bill into the German Reichstag to punish mom-, ber for words; spoken m debates, and handing them over to Courts ; also, opening all letters .on the frontier. These 'measures', it' is said, are dictated by the Emperor himself. Adelina Putti, prima donna at Berlin, has broken hor knee cap, and amputation is said to be necessary. Morcasi, who attempted the assassination of the King of Spain, has been garrotted. ... Pope Leo XIII wislio's to convene a oecumenicaLCouncil,. A Gra&d Na#diiai Exhibition is proposed at Moscow, m 1880. . , A collision on the Warsaw railway' has killed twenty persons, and wounded many more. Weston, the pedestrian, has started to walk pur .highways 2000 miles m 1000 > hours, and 'deliver 50 lectures. " Middleboroiigh, and Roseridale, Ferry Mil.' ' Iron Company, have failed. Liabilities £280,000. _ Germany has joined her sanitary forces with: . Austria, m attempting to stem the course of the Astrakhan plague Westward. | Prince Bismarck h.as written a letter of appeal to the agricultural community of Germany to afford him united and vigorous support m the work of fiscal reform. He refers to the new duties I levied upon imported cattle, and

expresses an opinion that sijJch ;taxation lias • bd<|jjme ; an,;" uft&voidable .fjcessity^ ..^ '- M . 'i : A / The winter residence of the Egyptian Khedive has been destroyed by fire. «i - The King of Holland has married the Princess Emm.a Waldock Pyemont. |» Prince r |(eWryi§g^lter^^he Kii^" died on the l§th. " m •J&Ualabad. was occupied, by ..troops,,, under. GeneraL Browne, on December &3KI; r'.ii ?\1 All t General . Stuarfc marched through TalnaaTip'^n"*T.Tflr t "Jaiiimi t yr-"^thiß" occupationiharks the^coftclusion for a definite period of the war, as all will, have beefriddne fhUf the Quettah Column can do before winter. * a The trooDs at JPeshawur, and Kuirum quarters, which, unless unseen events roccur^ will occupy, th.c next two^months. : - Aniimpoßing Burliar (courr) wfils held at Jellabad on the first of January by 1 ' Genial 'Brown.' 1 'MoSt^of^hL jocal' Khans and iiifluentialimen m the neighborhood attended, and a. good feelwg was manifested! "' ■*' " " ' ' -" >i: The health of the'troopsrislgoM/aiid supplies are, plentifully offered by the people. Yakoob Khan had iM>ul, and the Afghan army, ft 'd-isorganreea-. Major?, i lsfe t i(^i» > 'v?a»fii!§d upon m the streets 'of CfflKSdUr'bV'a'fan.atic native, }b?it|i6^Wf^"»^iot^w^unded. The man was arrested. tJ ~~ ! If , • ' A' Lieutenant of ihe Royal. Artillery i was, severed wounded, and two soldiers' slightly stabbed by the Zealot. ' ' '