TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. SECOND EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4345, 28 March 1882, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. SECOND EDITION.

Destruction of a Steamship at Sea.

Severe Storm in the English Channel. — Loss of an entire Lifeboat Crew.

Destruction of an Irish Magistrate's House by Dynamite.

Outrage on an English

Captain.

LONDON, March 27

A very severe gale has been experienced in the English Channel, and on the English and French coasts it has proved disastrous. At Havre several wrecks have resulted, and tho life boat which was proceeding to the assistance of a vessel was capsized, and the crew, numbering sixteen, were

drowned.

The house of Mr Mahon, a magistrate near Boscommon, was destroyed by an explosion of dynamite last night. The inmates, however, escaped uninjured. The perpetrators of the outrage have not yet been arrested.

A deputation of members of the British and Colonial Union waited npon the Secretary of State for the Colonies to-day in reference to AngloFrench commercial relations. In reply to various speakers, Earl Kimberley stated that the French Government declined to accord British Colonies " moit favoured

nation treatment" on account o£ the diversity of various Colonial tariffs and the high duties levied by the Colonies upon French goods. England, Earl Kimberley added, was vraablo to control the decision of the French Government.

Rumourß are current in Europe that a meeting will shortly take place between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor Francis Joßeph, of Austria.

Intelligence has been received that Captain Bosanquet, of H.M.S. Northumberland, at present stationed at Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, has been attacked and wounded by a marauder near that town and robbed of what money and valuables he possessed. The robber succeeded in escaping.

BERLIN, March 27.

The Emperor William has sent a most cordial reply to the Czar's congratulations on the occasion of His Majesty's birthday.

CAIRO, Maech 27.

The Egyptian Chamber of Notables was prorogued to-day. The political situation is unchanged.

SYDNEY, March 28,

Telegrams are to hand announcing that the steamship Hollander, 697 tons, bound for Sydney with a cargo of sugar for the Colonial Sugar Company, has been destroyed by fire at sea. Her crew have landed safely at Bango wangie, in Java. The captain committed suicide. The vessel was only partially insured.

AUCKLAND, Maech 28,

The steamer Taiaroa arrived from Fiji at 6 o'clock this morning. She brings Fiji papers, which give an account of the recent hurricane. The Taiaroa during her last passage from Auckland to Levuka experienced rough weather. The decks were continually swept, and at one time the starboard rails were under water. Both tho passengers and the crew were at the pumpß for hours, and that the steamer escaped foundering is considered a miracle. The evidences on every hand are conclusive as lo the fact that very wild work had been going on during the hurricane. One boat on the starboard side was crushed up like an eggshell, and is now only fit to be sold for firewood. The others are seriouily injured, One of the boats on the port side was also badly damaged, and had they been wanted, there was only one that could have floated. The stout iron railing running round the poop has been driven in, and twisted up, like wire on the neck of a soda water bottle by the rush of water. The doors have been swept off the captain's and chief engineer's cabins, and the whole veseel has a dilapidated and forlorn appearance which sufficiently attests the dagger she has passed through. The schooner Bed Coat, from Auckland to Levuka, arrived there on March 22. Considerable damage was done by the hurricane.

The Brogden Claims. Judge ( Gillies to-day ruled that he had no power to deal with the Brogden compensation claim. *

DUNEDIN, Maboh 28. Frank Oliver has been committed for trial on a charge of larceny. Ihe Supreme Court is engaged with the case Turnbull v. Proudfoot, in which the Court is asked to issue a decree compelling the defendant to the performance of two awards. The property involved is worth £40,000.

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WELLINGTON, Maboh 28.

Hia Excellency the Governor has obtained two months extension of time to plead to W. J. Hunt's declaration charging him with assault and false imprisonment. He has also obtained leave for a Commission to take evidence at Samoa. I understand that His Excellency had received twelve months' leave of absence, but that this case will pro* vent his departure till it is settled.