BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CRONSTADT.
THE SULTAN OP TURKEY AND THE
OFFENDING JOURNALIST.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT WARSAW.
London, Dee. 26*
The Standard to-day, publishes a telegram, stating that fully one fourth of the city of Cronstadt has beon destroyed by fire. The conflagration is 'further stated to have been the work of Nikiliets.
Constantinople, Dec. 26.
Mr J. A. Fawcett, British ConsulGeneral in this city, having interceded on behalf of Mr O'Donovan, who was found guilty of libelling the Sultan, the latter has agreed to pardon the prisoner, and the sentence of six months imprisonment upon him ha 3 been remitted.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 26.
Intelligence is to hand, from Warsaw, that a panic occurred yesterday , in a church in that city, owing to an alarm of fire. In the crush and confusion which followed, over thirty persons were killed, and a number seriously injured.
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West Coast Times, Issue 3974, 28 December 1881, Page 2
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