TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN PARIS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 30 January 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN PARIS.

A terrible explosion occurred on 'Wednesday morning at the distillers', Joanne and Son, Quai la Tournelle, Paris. Thirty clerks and workmen had just sat down to their day's work, when a boiler, containing 500 quarts of wormwood, burst. The furniture, the doors, the ceiling, and the roof were all shattered, as well as the roofs of the adjacent houses. The broken glass injured several passers-by. An eye-witness says the distillery looked like a huge punch-bowl flame, with clouds of smoke whirling up. All the 30 inmates of the house were either burnt or injured— several dangerously.

COLOXEL BURXABY's MEMORIAL.— A* Birmingham on Wednesday an obelisk in memory of Colonel Burnaby, which is placed in St. Philip's churchyard was unveiled by Lord Charles Beresford. The memorial consists of a basement of three massive steps of Hoptoa woodstone, a moulded pedestal and an obelisk of Portland-atone, altogether 50ft high. In a niche on the south side is a bust executed in marble, of the late Colonel. On the other side arc cut, " Burnaby, Khiva, 1870 ; AbouKlea, ISSS." Over the bust is carved a trophy, consisting of the helmet and cuiiass of his regiment (the Blues), spears, guns, &c. Round the upper moulding of the pedestal is carved the primrose. There wa3 no speaking at the ceremony, but immc liately it was over an adjournment was made to the Town hall, where a large number of people had assembled, the building being closely packed in every part. Lord Charles Beresford, in his tribute to the late Colonel Burnaby, referred to his military exploits and his famous ride to Khiva,