FRIDAY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 14, 25 July 1884, Page 11

FRIDAY.

The Mayor of Waimate has telegraphed to the Government asking for work for the unemployed. The Government have requested Mr. Marsh to inquire into the matter. *«ai«»i*u mr. All the share capital in Mr. Vesey Stewart's Kotorua Railway Company has been subscribed. Two breaches of the prison regulations were heard at Wellington yesterday. One prisoner was charged with obstructing a warder and inciting his fellow prisoners to mutiny. Prisoner pleaded guilty to the obstruction, and denied the second charge. The Superintendent stated that he ordered two warders to remove to a cell a refractory man who was being taken through the exercise yard. The prisoner rushed up and caught hold of Warder Eastick, ia order to obstruct his progess. The result was that that officer fell to the ground, and all the other convicts in the yard— some 60 in number— came rushing to the spot. A spirit of munity pervaded the Gaol, and serious consequences might have ensued. His Worship sentenced prisoner to be kept on a bread and water diet for 14 days, and to forfeit six months marks. The second charge was of a similar nature, another prisoner being sentenced to 14 days oa bread and water and forfpit three months marks. « ♦v Fr 4 nee !? P ro ,T ok j n S seri °us disputes with the Finance Committee of the Egyptian Conference. Cholera continues to rageat Marseilles and Toulon with unabated vigour. Other parts of France are as yet free from the epidemic Lord Derby is endeavouring to modify and reduce to a minimum the promises contained in his dispatch to the Colonial Governors in May last. China refuses to pay the indemnity demanded by France for the 7nl gg * SO S outra S e - The ultimatum sent by France expires on the 19th, and war is apparently inevitable. A disastrous accident occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway. The axle of a carriage of the express train running from Manchester to Sheffield broke, and the train left the rails and fell over an embankment. Tweaty persons were killed, and 30 others sustained severe injuries.