HEAT ON THE CONTINENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9475, 22 August 1892, Page 2

HEAT ON THE CONTINENT.

London, August 21.

Several more deaths have occurred in Paris and Berlin from the excessive heat.

, . SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP. Mr D. H. Jackson, of New Zealand, • has been awarded the Scionce Scholarship founded by the Commissioners of .Education of 1851. RISE IN SILVER. Silvor is now quoted at 33 3d.

•DECREASE IN IRISH POPULATION. •Tn the last decade tho Irish population Jias decreased three-quaiters of a million.' PBENCH ANNEXATIONS IN THE • , SOUTHERN OCEAN. Both tho Foreign and the Colonial Offices assert tha*, the; aro unaware of th.fr supposed annexation of St. Paul .and Amsterdam Islands by France. The

..Admiralty consider that tho islands aro 'important for strategic purposes, but 'Useless as harbours. 'BRIGANDS MURDER A FAMILY. Athens, August 20. Brigands at Epirus havo massacred a •family .of Christians, whose friends wero unable to pay tho ransom demanded. CHOLERA. Teheran, August 20. Cholera is spreading, and many persons are dying in the streets. DISASTER ON THE ST. LAWRENCE, Ottawa, August 20. While a passenger steamer was proceeding from Kingston to Montreal an * ncc,ident happened to tho steering-gear, „ai)d tho vessol, becoming unmanageable, ■ was caught in the St. Lawrence "Rapids and driven on Sherad Island. Two .hundred of those on board were •Bared.