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  2. THE SUNDERLAND CATASTROPHE.

    London, June 16.—A terrible calamity, involving the death of 202 children, occurred in Sunderland, couoty Durham, thisevening. From the details received, it appeairs an entertainment was given at Victoria Hall by a conjurer, ...

    Article : 1,425 words
  3. NEW ZEALAND.

    We a[?]te in receipt of files of Wellington papers to the 17th July, from which the following intelligence is extracted:— The annual import, export, and shipping returns for 1883 ...

    Article : 726 words
  4. RISE AND PROGRESS OF POPULAR ART EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

    Sir,—Under the circumstances mentioned at the close of my previous letter, it was by no means surprising that is 1849 a select committee should have been appointed to inquire into the constitution and management of the existing ...

    Article : 2,968 words
  5. ATTEMPT TO KILL A CLERGYMAN.

    London, June 28.—A desperate attempt was made in a carriage of the railway train running from Calars to Paris to murder and rob Rev. Mr. Witchborne, an English clergyman. The murderer attacked Witchborne with a ...

    Article : 89 words
  6. FEARFUL INHUMANITY.

    A shocking story of "man's inhumanity to man" was unfolded at an inquest held by the West Bromwich coroner on the bodies of two young children who bad met with an agonising death by falling into a [?]heap of burning cinders. ...

    Article : 379 words
  7. AMERICAN SUMMARY.

    San Francisco, June 30.—If the Australian colonies come into the postal union Bolivia will be the only country with an organised postal service remaining outside. A secret convention has been held at Indianapolis to ...

    Article : 650 words
  8. THE FRENCH AND CHINA TROUBLES.

    Paris, June 24.—Prime Minister Ferry has received a letter from Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambassador, in which the latter states that his departure was due entirely to matters connected with family affairs. He will return to ...

    Article : 228 words
  9. AIDED EMIGRATION.

    London, June 28.—Trevelyan, in a speach to-day in the Commons,. said: The telegram from America on the subject of immigration should be received with great caution. The Turnessia took out 62 [?]emigrants, of whom only five families ...

    Article : 194 words
  10. AUSTRALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

    A meeting of the National League was held at Dublin on the 13th June, Mr. Mayne, M.P., presiding Mr. Barrington, hon. secretary, acknowledged the receipt of a sum of £1000 remitted from Queensland, ranking the second ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. NORFOLK ISLAND.

    Our Norfolk Island correspondent, writing under date July 3, sends us the following information:— We were agreeably surprised on Queen's Birthday at a visit from the Commodore in [?].M.S. Nelson, on her way ...

    Article : 542 words
  12. IRISH PAUPERS.

    London, June 28.—The News this morning says: It is Perfectly within America's right to prevent the landing of Irish paupers on her sbores. The gross negligence in shipping them is most cruel. If assisted emigration continues, ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. INSCRIPTION OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN.

    It has been notified that by arrangement between the Government of New South Wales and the Bank of England, holders of the New South Wales 4 per cent. debentures of 1882 may, between the 1st of next July and the 30th of ...

    Article : 219 words
  14. TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Sir,—It was intended last week to hold a meeting in this city with a view to appointing a deputation to wait on the Hon. the Minister for Education with reference to the use of " Temperance Lesson Books" in the Public Schools of ...

    Article : 1,165 words
  15. TRIAL OF JEWS IN HUNGARY.

    Vienna, June 22.—At the great trial at Nyreghazza, Hungary, of a number of Jews accused of having murdered a Christian girl at Tiszaezlar, to use her blood to mix with their Passover bread, a sister of the girl alleged to have ...

    Article : 277 words
  16. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mr.Michael Davitt has agread to join the Irish National League. It will be recollected that at the formation of this organisation Mr. Davitt declined to become a member of the executive body. ...

    Article : 496 words
  17. THE VATICAN AND IRISH AFFAIRS.

    A pamphlet, containing three letters from the Pope to the Archbishop of Dublin, one from Cardinal Simeoni to the Archbishop of Armagh, and one from the Propaganda Fide to the Irish Episcopacy, has just been published. The last ...

    Article : 245 words
  18. DEADLY EXPLOSION AT WINNIPEG.

    Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 29.—During a fire in the warehouse of J.H.Ashdown this evening, a number of kegs of powder exploded, tearing the building to splinters, injuring 20 persons more or less, and smashing the windows ...

    Article : 148 words
  19. THE SEIZURE OF THE KERRY SENTINEL.

    The case against Mr. Edward Harrington, editor of the Kerry Sentinel (which was recently seized by the police, and which was the subject of a debate in the House of Commons), and five members of the printing staff—James ...

    Article : 186 words
  20. THE BLIND or the FEMALE UNFORTUNATE.

    Sir,—I would ask your valuable assistance to prevent, If possible, what I believe to be a public misfortune to the colony; I mean the destruction of the Moorclliff Eye Hospital, a branch of the Sydney Hospital. About five years ago ...

    Article : 592 words
  21. A BRUTAL FIGHT.

    New York, June 26.—Jim Murray, of Providence, "knocked out " in two rounds Robert Turnbull, of New York. The battle lasted but 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Science and the Queensberry rules were alike ignored. ...

    Article : 194 words
  22. THE MURDER Of LORD MOUNTMORRES.

    At Queenstown, on June 12, a detective constable arrested a man named Patrick Sweeney on a charge of complicity in the murder of Lord Mountmorres two years ago. The man held in his possession a ticket for New York, ...

    Article : 133 words
  23. CHOLERA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

    Cholera is raging in the Philippines. News from Cebu, dated the 7th of May, states that the epidemic continues to make ravages there, killing over 80 per cent. of those attacked. The majority of deaths occurred in the parish of ...

    Article : 52 words
  24. TRAVELLING THROUGH ITALY.

    Sir,—I feel it a duty incumbent upon me to fellow-Australians bound for the "old country" to issue, with your permission, a grave word of warning on the dangers incident upon thoughtlessly landing in transitu upon the ...

    Article : 401 words
  25. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN AMERICA.

    St. Louis, June 24. The Mississippi has overflowed and inundated a large tract of country. This afternoon the water, which broke through Madison dyke yesterday, reached a point a short distance above Venice and broke'a ...

    Article : 611 words
  26. TRIAL OF THE MARQUIS DE RAYS.

    The Marquis de Rays and 17 accessories were put on their trial the other day for manslaughter, fraud, and infringement of the laws on public companies and emigration— in other words, for an attempt to found the colony of Port ...

    Article : 219 words
  27. CHINESE OFFICIALS.

    Chinamen in the colonies will no doubt consider the Colonial Office has done well to maintain towards the Chinese of Hong Kong the liberal policy commonced by Governor Pope Hennessy. A few years ago much outery ...

    Article : 168 words
  28. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS v. REFORMATORY.

    Sir,—In your sub-leader of this morning you make some remarks in reference to a recent official visit to the Industrial Schools at Biloela, but you call it the Reformatory all through the article. The only Government Reformatory at ...

    Article : 99 words
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  30. EXECUTION OF SULEIMAM PASHA.

    Suleiman Bey Daoud who was c[?]ommends to death for complacity in the burning of Alexandria, was hanged in the middle of the mins of the Great Square on June 9. A telegram from Alexandria says:—By 2 o'clock in the morning ...

    Article : 271 words
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