GENERAL SUMMARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 690, 8 May 1879, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

No attention is to be paid to the Sultan's authority in the settlement of the Egyptian difficulty. Business has stagnated at Cairo. Twenty more Durham collieries have struck, and in Durham 30,000 colliers are idle. The military suppressed the* discontented operatives at Blackburn; where 12,000 looms have stopped, and 5,000 Weavers are idle. The Times criticises the Canadian tariff, and saw every branch of industry will be crippled. .'■ • -„ The Duke of Newcastle's, Chamber House, has been partially burned. The mutilated body of Mrs. Thomas, a widow, has been found in a box in the Thames. The servant has been arrested. The village of Varny, Vichy, has been burned. , France has declined to participate in a mixed Government in Roumelia. President Grevy is issuing pardons to the Communists as fast as possible. The Emperor of Germany and Bismarck are daily receiving threatening letters. The German seaports strongly condemn the protective tariff. In an attempt toassassinate thePrihce of Servia, his attendant was wounded. Forty persons have been buried in an avalanche on the Tyrol. An Austrian Colonel has been murdered by brigands. Seventeen thousand sufferers by the Szegedin disaster are still supported by charity. Twenty thousand -Russians crossed the Caspian Sea bound to Merv. Russia is negotiating with Spain for the.Cardonne Islands, in the North Pacific. Eight officers of the Imperial Guard have been arrested as Nihilists. There have been upwards of one thousand arrests in Moscow, in consequence of the assassination of a Government spy. Todleben declares war as the only solution of the Eastern Roumelian difficulty, y The plague has disappeared from Astrakan. Russia concludes a new convention with China, and surrenders Kuldja. The Pope wrote a letter welcoming Queen Victoria to Italy. . By an earthquake 11,000 lives were lost in Minach, causing much damage. A sharp correspondence is going on between Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Sir Bartle Frere, re the Zulu war. ! The Secretary of State censures Sir Bartle Frere for beginning war without the imperial authority, but says the Government does not desire to withdraw its confidence in the present crisis. Egyptian officers have been sent to suppress the slave trade, and 11,000 Arabs have fled. „-' . , . , There is a terrible famine in Upper Egypt, and many of the inhabitants are running about like wild beasts, digging rooter ■'•'■' The Burmese trouble arose from the refusal of tlie British residents to deliver for slaughter, two Princes and their families. The King has become, mad with drink. There has been a great fire at Rangoon, and by a fire at Akoab, India, one million sterling of damage has been done, and thousands ate homeless. A terrible sporadic fever exists in Blanch, Morocco.