FURTHER ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1677, 6 April 1886, Page 2

FURTHER ITEMS.

A fire broke out on the 12th m it railway station at Oldham, and £70,000 worth of property vu destroyed befor* the flames were extinguished. One of the firemen was killed. The choice of Dr Donaldson as new principal of St Andrew's University is denounced by English journals at a Cabinet job. During the heavy snowstorm which prevailed on the English (Joast late m February the English steamer Missouri, Captain Poulard, from Boston (Feb 18th) •for Liverpool, was stranded off Holyhead. There was no loss of life. Th» steamer cannot be floated. A portion of the Shipperiei Exhibit tiou building, m proem of construction at Liverpool, collapsed on the 16tb Feb. while several scores of workmen wer« engaged on it. Most of them were recovered from the wreck with broken iiuibs, arid sent to hospitals. Several were killed outright. ■ : Mr Joseph Co wen, colleague of Mr John Morl«y, and M.P. for Newcastle, writes to the Chronicle of that city or March 12th, to the effect that Mr Gladstone has changed his mind about an early dissolution. He will proceed with his Home Rule measures, as he didjwith the Franchise 7 Bill and Redistribution Bill. ••<-;•■ The boiler of the tug Rifleman exploded m Cardiff Harbor on March Bth. The whole crew of six persons wer« blown to atoms, and a piece of the cylinder struck a passing Italian ship a quarter of a mile distant, and killed thepilot. A riot occurred at Bristol on Feb 17, between British and foreign sailors, growing out of jealousy of the captain ef the Steamer Jersey City, who had attempted to ship a crew of foreigners. He was followed and hooted by a crowd of unemployed seamen. The foreigners became alarmed and fled, the English sailors pursuing and assaulting them. A well-known baronet,. Sir Claude d« Crespigny, assisted, according to hit own admission, the, London executioner Berry, m hanging the three Neiharby murderers. He said that as he would probably be sheriff he desired to gam experience m order that he might be prepared m case he should be obliged to ace himself m absence of the hangman. Ho slept m the prison during tht night, pinioned the culprits himself, and generally assisted Berry. Mr Charles Russell, Attoraey-Geaeral and Mr Horace Davy Fox, who engineered tha Meraty tunnel, were knighted by, the Queen on -March 8, ■■ •' ! : ;<• - . Lord Tennyson haa sent a lftter of thanks to Mr b\ S w Hawley, for the aland he 1 has taken on the subject of international copyright. The English Court ot Chancery: hat sanctioned the auction sale ot the Blenheim collection next June, with exception of the family portraits. Mrs Phelps, wife of the United, States Minister, accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Roseberry apd party, was received by the Queen at Windsor, ©a March Ist. Mr Phelps did not accompany, his wife. ; W; . : 'i;\ -. The Rev Stallord Brooke has formed %■■ Shelley Society m London.