... TEE COLLIZEY EXPLOSION AT RAW- I MIARSHX, The explosion at tha Rawmarrh pit has resulted in the death of twenty-three e iners. The explosion is the most serious that has taken place in South Yorkshire since t.ho accident at the Oaks pit; Mr. Casey, one of the secra- taries of the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, and Mr. Broadhead, the treasurer, arrived at Rwawmarsh fhe the purpose of ...

... the efisel. (he of shIpS JIl enoeu Vlorm the Arctic explor- iog expedition will be selected from those composing the Chatham steam reserve, as iti« well known that there are several attached to the reserve which will be found ad- mirably suited for the proposed special service. One of the ships already selected by the Admiralty, the Columbine, has been taken out of the steam reserve basin and ...

... THE DURHAM COKE DRAWERS f: AND LABOURERS. he DELEGATE MEETING AT BISHOP qr. AUCKLAND. D dr he -A meetiisg of delegates representing most of a the collieries in South Durham waas held at Mrs b to Baxter's, George Inn, Bishop Auckland, on v he Saturday afterncon, for the purpose of explain- E ns Ing the objects of the recently formed Coke a is Drawers' and Labourers' Association. Mr, ti rid ...

... Land and Water has received from a correspondent In Gippsland, Australia, a communication of which the following is an extract. Our contemporary does not attach much importance to it, but, if correct, it eayg it would certainly solve many difficulties m tha.t extra- ordinary case, explaining, as it would, the desultory and incomplete knowledge of various minute circumstanoea in Sir Roger's ...

... TER RIFIC GALE. '&RIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. A terrific gale from the south south-east prevailed yesterday on the North-East Coast. The first in dication of the storm was given about ten o'clock on Saturday night, when the wind suddenly rose and gradually in- creased in intensity. On the storm coming away the members of the South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade at once mustered, and placod ...

... T. Ilo - .- L ?? Itis reported that Me Emerson, Rae engineer to will dthe Darlington Corporation, is about to remove to and ii a Similar situation in Blackburn. will La WHITBYT FeiR.-This fair was held on Satur- fl gdrzy, and the market was crowded with visitors, At I 'h holiday-making snti on business, boy nM The Rev. C. H. Jeaffreson, second master of oba isthe Neweastle-en-Tyne Grammar ...

... To-maoRRow the National Assembly will meet and proceed to elect its president, vice-presidents, secretaries, &c., and then will come a Message, tle precise tone of which has not been settled, or, at all events, is not nr~own. That nothing definitive has been adopted is very probable, seeing that the Right Centre, which met yesterday, came to no determinatiaa as to what line of policy it will ...

... rn, a u-un nf Santiago has ex-communicated the the law prohibiting the promulgation of Papal bulls. ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, SATURDAY EVBUISTO. We are promised a pretty sight next year, the Liberals quarrelling in public throughout the length and breadth of the land. The recent con- ference of the Reform Association is the cause of it all. Then the Radicals carried the day against the Moderates, but the committee of the Association reversed the decision of the public, to whom ...

... : T O CObRRSONDEITS. Ovingtothe number of letterercelved it isinpossibletogive the answers in the current eek. We coanot undertake to return WAS. or to send anewos by sPoot, W. E.-AddressGeorgeWillett, 38, South-street,Worthing, Suetex, for information respecting the book. J. ADB=OT.-If the non is his father's executor he can ant under the will by which his father was appointed. J. WARNR--We ...

... AUISCELLANBOUS, A number of English ladies have presented to the Pope a elmn of £2,400. The Marquis of Drogbada has been appeirted Lord Lieutesiant of Kildare, in the room of the Duko of L-iustcr, deceased. 1ire new schools in the Rodney road werc formally oponed on Tuesday by Sir Charles Reed, chairman of the School Board for London. Oin Tuesday morning the Union Woohen Mills, at Batley, near ...

... Aynsacmp I Poort-Lfiw AssocrsrcoVr. ~- The Bi rs sixty-ninth quarterly meeting of the Ayrshi-reBi Poor- Law Association was held -at Kilmarnock 00on Saturday-Mr Smith, poor inspector, Cum.- Br a nook, presiding. It was agreed that in future B Fs the annual meeting ashould be held at Ayr, that ne ir one quarterly meeting should be held each year p a- at Kilmarnock, and that the other two ...