Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-12-31 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

LONDON MUSIC-HALL ON FIRE.  Shortly after 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire broke out at the Royal Music Hall, Holborn. The alarm was given by a police-constable, and on the arrival of the brigade a few minutes afterwards it was discovered that the flames had originated at the back of the premises, in a building utilised for stores. There was a good supply of water, and owing to the exertions of the firemen the damage was confined to a very small area. The cause of the fire is unknown, as everything was observed to be safe at the conclusion of Monday night's perforinance.  The death is announced,from typhoid fever,of Mr. Nicholas Wood, of Hythe and Lowndes-square, who represented the Houghton-le-Spring Division of Durham in the last Parliament. He was the son of the famous mining engineer, whose life was in reality the history of the rise and progress of the coal industry of Durham and Northumberland. At the General Election in 1885 Mr. Wilson, a working miner, defeated Mr. Wood, but in the following year the latter gained the seat by a large majority. He failed to retain it at the last election contest, but was widely respected, not only in the constituency, but throughout the whole county. In 1881 he married Edith Florence, daughter of Mr. .1. St. Vincent Jervis, of Darlaston Hall, Staffordshire.  A new immigration rule has just been promulgated from Washington. The steamship companies have been notified that all passengers who do not arrive in the first and second cabins will be landed at the immigrant station on Ellis Island, and that no distinction will be made between third cabin end steerage passengers.  !' The mail -which- has arrived from the Congo brings intelligence of a terrible accident which occurred on the railway between Pdatubi and Abbertville,near the former place. A waggon loaded with dynamite and gunpowder collided with a locomotive, and a terrific explosion ensued. Four Europeans and eight natives were killed.  _ ... It has been clearly perceived that French savings were being artificially drawn into the savings banks under State control, ordinary banks proportionately losing the custom of the publio. The force of the current is shewn by the statement that the liabilities of the State to savings bank depositiors have risen from £4,240,000 in 1837, £14,16Q,000 in 1848, and £19,320,000 in 1870 to £144,000,000 in 1891. An extraordinary story has reached San Francisco. It is stated that the owner, captain, and mate of the French vessel Constantine, trading with the New Hebrides, have been murdered by the Kaiaks crew, and that the captain was cooked and eaten at a native feast. Four Hanakas who attempted to aescue him were massacred by their com triots. The vessel was looted, and then turned adrift and wrecked.  The Crown of Austria, a mKnificent new steel four-masted barque of over 3,000 tons, is ashore at Barrieros, in the Brazils. So far as is at present known no lives have been lost; but there is a great probability that the vessel will become a total wreck, as the coast on which she has stranded is very dangerous. The Crown of Austria was built this yearby Messrs. Ramage, of Leigh, and is owned by Messrs. Robertson, Cruikshank, and Company, ci Liverpool. She was valued at £28.000.