FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4898, 25 June 1887, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Auckland, to-day

The central crater of Mount Etna was active all morning on the 3lst May, and lava flowed in largo volumes and masses of stones and cinders were thrown to a great height while heavy clouds of smoke enveloped the core of the mountain.

Dr Junker, a Russian explorer, writes to Brussels ou the 18th May stating that ho has received a lotler from Dr E;nin Hey, dated 18th December, and written at Wadelh. Emm Bey stated that he had obtained news and supplies from Zanzibar through an Arab leader who King Mowanda permitted to pass through the dominion. Bey and all his party at Waddoli were well and King Mowanda was willing to allow the Arab to return to Zanzibar for fresh supplies.

A terrible explosion occurred in the Adaton coal pit, Blanbyre, Lancashire, on the 17th May, when 320 miners were entombed, 45 of whom were released from tho upper seam, one dying after reaching the surface. The explosion occurred in the lowest seam and access to this was found blocked by the debris resultintf from the explosion. Twenty-five miners were confined here and all are thought to bo dead. Seventy other men were shut in the other seam, and there aro hopes of saving the most of them. A despatch of the 30rh May says 01 bodies have boon recovered from the pit. Many are unrecognisable and were hopelessly charred and the limbs broken off. The German steamer Oder was wrecked off Socotra Island, in the Indian Ocean, on the 30th May. The passengers and most of the crew were saved.

Official documents have reached Washington derailing the great cave-in of M. de Lesaepa' canal, by a slip caused by. the nnder-ground currents and the water disturbed and diverted by the cable e:cca vation. The work now stands about where It did before a spadeful of material was removed. The engineers are preparing to begin work on the Calabria cut, which it is calculated cannot be accomplished in less than six years. Panama despatches to the 16th May say that in one of the cuts water has been struck. The amount of rock and earth taken out of the section referred to cost millions of dollars, and all is rendered valueless, as the water washed from the side of the mountain more than sufficient to fill all the cuts.

Sir J. Millias has sold his Academy picture for this year. a Scotch landscape which he calls '* Over the hills and faraway — for 5000 guineas, the highest price over given f° r any English landscape, Turner's alone excepted. At an auction sale in Wiles on the 28th May of some cattle distrained for tithes the crowd gathered and forced back the soldiers and the police and caught hold of the auctioneer and turned his coat inside out and led him in procession through the town, and then, after handlinghim roughly they made him promise never to act as auctioneer in the neighbourhood again.

The Opera Comique, Paris, took fire on the 25i,h May and the building was totally destroyed. It appears that the fire apparatus which was put in position when building the place, during the second act rolled down from the roof and exploded below and in fifteen minutes the stage was a vast furnace. The iron curtain was lowered and prevented the fire spreading immediately to the auditorium and allowed the audience to escape. The Government propose to close several of the Paris theatres because of their deficiency in exit. The work of searching for the bodies was impeded by a horribly noxious Bmell, notwithstanding that odors arising from fluids were thrown on the ruins from hydrants. Tliia indicates that there must be still many corpses under the debris.

The Nationalists afc Limerick propose an Irish boycott of the Cunard line of steamers if it be proved that the Umbria's captain was implicated in the action of the mob that insulted O'Brien on hia last voyage from England to the United States. The Clan-na-Gael Secret Society, for years one of the most powerful formed in the United States to advance the Irish cause and secure Home Rule, and which numbered among its members two United States Senators, -Governors of several States, and Mayors of a dozen cities as well as Congressmen of natienal importance, has became entirely disrupted. The secretary bolted on the 25th May with 4000 dollars of the funds, and there is now fighting among the camp which has become so bitter that several members have been openly charged with selling the secrets of the order to the British Government, which is alleged to have been the means of supplying information to the London Times.

W. L. Hansen, a young man aged 32, an agent of the New Zealand Life Insurance Co. at San Jose, California, shot himself himself fatally on the 15th May. Shortness in hh accounts and love affairs are said to have caused the act.

The signing of the Russian- American extradition treaty by Secretary Bayard on the part of the United States whereby political refugoes are to be surrendered to the Czar by the American Government, created an intense feeling among political residents under the Stars and Stripes, as also among the native born.

The racing yacht Thistle lost her bow■prit and was otherwise damaged in a gate during her trial run from Clyde where she was built. On the 20th May while on her trip she rescued three men in a life boat belonging to the steamer Harkaway which had foundered with a 1033 of 16 lives. When the steamer went down the life boat carried six persona three of whom succumbed to privation.

A dynamite bomb was exploded under the police court at Hepburn, Durham County, on May 23rd, and partially destroyed the building. Tho outrage is attributed to strikers.

George Augustus Sala is lecturing on " What I saw in Australia and New Zealand" for the benefit of the hospital for women and children.

The learned telUusthat, chalk is nothing else than the remains of sea-shells ; and a ninre than usually learned one saya that the flints which are scattered through thu chalk are made up of the of those name shells. I don't know; but learned men are the men one believe in matters nobody knows anything about. It is a great comfort to have them with us. — Vanity Fair. Mr. A. F. Vincent, chief conservator of one of the Indian Forest Departments has arrived on a visit to the colonies. He will inapectthe principal forest reserves <>f each colony, and (hen proceed to England via America.

The Southland County Council have determined to reduce the salaries of their officials by 10 per cent. , and to reduce their surface men by Od per day.

fe- Professor Kernot has contributed £2000 to the University of Melbourne for tho purpose of founding annual scholarships in natural philosophy and chemistry.

Doormats are now made from scrap leather, which is formed into links, threaded on metal rods or wires. The appearance of the mat is pleasing, and the materials are made up in scolloped or other patterns. It is flexible, and is aaid to afford a safe footing while being at the same time durable.

la tho antimony mine ai Proutkovilzin Bohemia, a vein carrying gold ha 3 been discovered which, in character some of the gold-bearing strata in California. Some of the gold extracted ha 3 been taken to the mint at Prague. In Transylvanian mines, gold has been discovered.

The Ceylon Legislative Council has sanctioned a grant of £24,000 for constructing batterießfor the defence of Colombo.

The Queensland Government will in future use steel instead of wood for the sleepers of their railways.

Holloiraijs Ointment and Pills.— A frequentc.useof rheumatism is the inflammatory state of the blood, attended by indigestion and g'noral debility. A few doses of the Pills taken iv time is an effectual preventive asjainat gout and rheumatism. Anyooe who hs.s an attack of either should use Holloway's Ointment ah->o, the j owerful action of which, combined with the operation of the Pills, must infallibly effect a cure. These PiJla act di>ectly on the blood, which they purify and improve. Having once subdued the severity of these diseases, perseverance with tho Ointment, after fomenting the ;> fleeted jrtinta with warm brine, wiilspeedily relax all stiffness and prevent any permanent contraction.

The demand for the American remedy Hop Bitters, in this part of t*e couutry has become ao great that the Hop Bitters Co. , whose headquarters are at Rochester, New York, U. S. A. , have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr. M. H. Van Burgh, a gentleman of several years exDerience with this company and the trade may be assured of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and the most courteous treatment. The H. B. Co. have establishments at London, Pan's, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland and Toronto, and their American Bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world.

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