General Summary.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1356, 10 March 1881, Page 3

General Summary.

Lieutenant Roper has been murdered at Brompton Barracks. Fenians are suspected, t There is great distress in some of the •rural cities of Russia. Parents are selling their male children and abandoning the females. It is rumoured that 500' 'American adventurers are going to the Transvaal to Aid the Boers. The Peruvians maintain a guerilla warfare against the Chilians, holding nearly all the country. " Itisrumouredilmt the English Government have seized certain Fenian corres.pondenqe, > which seriously compromises Parneil and other Land Leaguers. Congress has rejected the Mail Subsidy Bill. Thomas Carlyle was unconscious for rrtany hours before death, and suffered no pain. Four thousand weavers are on strike at Hyde". " Strict precautions were taken in every part of the United Kingdom on account of the Irish agitation, and remarkable vigilance is used at the Houses of Parliaments. An infernal machine, containing a pound of gunpowder, has been found in » London square. The Tunes admits that England is harrassed, if not with formidable danger, with alarms which are little less destructive of tranqnility. Three policeman have been shot in Edinburgh, and one serious injured. Two men lurking about Custom-house . have, "been arrested. One of the arrested parties lias committed suicide, They are supposed to be Irish Americans. The ship Bremner has been wrecked on the Shetland Isles. Thirteen of her crew were drowned and seven saved. Twelve men, imprisoned, have pro1' bably perished by a colliery explosion in Staffordshire. Twelve grain-laden barges were destroyed by fire at the Victoria Docks, London, on February 8. Mr Jay Gould has ordered 15,000 tons steel rails irom England, at GO dollars a ton. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland ■yvjll be convoked by the Archbishop to consider the new Land Bill. ; The steamer Bohemia, from Boston for Liverpool, went ashore in Dunlop Bay, on the Irish Coast, during a dreadful storm. Thirty-two persons were drowned, and twenty-one of the crew, including the second officer, were saved. Another survivor Was seen on the rocks separated from the mainland, and was rescued after a good deal of difficulty, two life-boats beitig capsized in the attempt. There is nothing to mark the scene of the disaster beyond quantities of wreckage washed ashore. The drowned include the captain, first, third, and fourth mates, the engineers, and three quarter-masters. The Bohemia was one of six steamers of the Leyland line, plying between Liverpool and Boston, and was probably worth 500,000 dollars when wrecked. The cargo, which was worth 283,000 dollars, was insured.