GENERAL SUMMARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5569, 14 September 1889, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

San Francisco, Aug. 25. floods. Great destruction of property is reported from County Clare, Ireland. Floods swept hundreds of acres of farming lands, and nearly all the growing crops were swept away to sea. The loss will reach an enormous sum. ROYALTY. The Queen is suffering from sciatica, which causes great pain, and prevents sleep. The Prince of Wales is also suffering much from his leg. Since he loft Cowes the veins, which have never resumed their normal size since ho had typhoid fever, swell and cause great pain from time to time. Lately the swelling has been very bad. The leg has reached an enormous size. An anonymous writer enclosed ten one thousand pound notes in a letter to the Prince of Wales denouncing the proposition iv the Royal Grants Bill. In reference to this it is also mentioned that the Queen has appointed a private commission to examine her household and civil list expenditure, and prepare .1 scheme of retrenchment. PANAMA. Mr Briinnett, liquidator of the Panama Canal Com pany, informed the shareholders on August Ist that the financial syndicate had taken the whole amount of the lottery bonds, the terms of which he does not reveal, and that if the enterprise perishes the law of bankruptcy will enable him to distribute among the creditors 8 per cent. NERVE. Blondin has accepted a wager of £4000 to walk on a cable stretched from the Eiffel Tower to the dome of the main Exhibition building in less than five minutes. FRAUDS. Naval frauds recently discovered in Germany sent a thrill of indignation through the Empire. The extent of their ramification is great. The Emperor is furious. Ilerr Oremier, a highly-placed official at Kiel, committed suicide after his arrest. SAMOA. News from Samoa received up to Aug. 8 caused quite a stir through Germany, chiefly on account of Mataafa's action in compelling Tamasese to hand over to him the prison and police force at Apia. JERUSALEM. Cardinal Lavigeri will shortly appeal in the name of the Holy Father Leo XIII. to the nations of Europe to purchase from infidel defilers the Holy City of Jerusalem and as much of its surroundings as will be necessary to form a small province, to be forever independent and guaranteed its integrity by the Western Powers. SOLD UP. Two thousand estates of noblemen, mortgaged to the credit of the Bank of St. Petersbnrgh, established by the Government to advance loans to the nobility, have been foreclosed, and on August 20 were sold by auation. GENERAL. Kamala, husband of Sarah Bernhardt, actress, died on Aug. loth from an overdose of morphine and cocaine. He had long indulged in the habit against his wife's protest. Stevens, the American long-distance cyclist, has failed in his search for Stanley, the explorer, and was reported on August 13 returning to the Coast. He had seen nothing and heard nothing of the object of his' search. The s.s. City of Paris has made the Atlantic trip in 5 days 23 hours 35 minutes, beating her own record. At a convention of the Ancient Order of Forresters, held at Minneapolis during the week ending Aug. 17, it was resolved to declare independence of the parent Order of England. The Young Ireland Parliamentary Club of San Francisco are preparing to receive John Dillon, Sir Henry Grattan Esmonde, and John Deasy, who are expected to arrive from Australia by the September steamship. Eighteen large steamers have recently arrived at New York from England to seek business in the West India trade. Henry Villard's South Pacific expedition is preparing to start next spring. Villard has been interested in the scheme for two years, but the principal promoter is a professor in a German university.