TOWN EDITION

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 51, 13 December 1882, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

LATENT TELEGRAMS i ~~~ [BT E^KCTHIC TELEuIiAPn. COPYEIGIIT.] ! KKUTlvlfs TKLKGKAMS. liceeived December 13, 2.10 r.m.] j 'M ki.houuxe, 'J his Day. The accident at the Australian Mine, at Creswiek,| was caused by the miners breaking into some old workings. According to latest reports, the water at mii'lnifflit ■was rapidly diminishing, 00.0i.-O gallons an hour being brought up by the pumps It is expected that the men still in the mine will be reached this morning, "but it is feared that if they have not been drowned they will have been suffocated. Later. The debate in the Legislative Assembly on Mr Munro's motion was eontinned to a i ;i i r lumii- hst rich', but was at length adjourned tn to-day. Telegrams from Creswick timed 11 a.m. fo-f'py r--p >rt that water had not be n "srfficMTjt ly reduced at that lime to allow of v decent into the mine, but it is hoped that, this mar be possible during afternoon. London", December 12. 3ren:b'-rs of tin- Embassy sent to E'ir^pe by the Queen of Madagascar, and who recently arrived in London, had an audience to-day of Her Majesty the Qi.cen, at Windsor. (age spkcials.) [by Ei.rcTiuc tei.kiik vnr. — copyright.] H! L'THli's TKT.KGIfAMS. London', ' ecember 8. The French Government have withdrawn their c>n«ular representatives from the island of .Madagascar, and it i>> ft ared tli.it hostile fiction on the part of the public is i'.iiin;:iciit . Xovc fh't the fate of Arabi Pasha has been decided, Lord DiiiTerin will leave i'' •.'>]. f !!ii),;ei!;ate y I'm- Knjhiiid. to ecu- I fer with tic ]f< me Government on the cuise lo be pursiau wiih afl'airs in i're.-ideni Arlhr.r lias pnvenfed a nn-SMirc lo ( 'uiiL'ivys. urging u|.on thai body ilic ti< i <.''<itv for augmenting the iniii!;;;-v orces of the United lS:ate<!-. The me. -.-i m- also deals \vi:h (.he subject of j Ci vii Service reform. (I'KK f.M11.1l l'U]>S ASSOCIATION. 1 ) I'atka, -l'ii is ])ay. A man named T.-imberf, recenily a fiieman on s.s. < ly.le, attempted suicide to da v. hy en! t in<_ r his throat w if h a carving knife. lie hud be.en drinking. The wound is no! likely to prove fatal.