CABLE NEWS. Special to "Star."

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 64, 1 November 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. Special to "Star."

TWO FEARFUL EXPLOSIONS IN ! UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. J THIRTY PERSONS INJURED. i THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN. HKUTKfi's TRLEOBAMS. London, October 30. The failure is announced to-day of Messrs Ranger and Co., cotton brokers, of Liverpool. Tho liabilities are set down at half a million sterling. Messrs Forraan and Co., and Messrs Hollinstead and Tetley, have also called meetings of their creditors, and other failures are expected to be announced during the next few days. Considerable excitement and anxiety consequently prevails in commerical circles. Bbkli.v, Oct. 29. A shop devoted to the sale of Australian wines was opened to-day in this city.

Received Nov 1, 1.20 a.m.T London, October 31. The report that Hollinstead and Tetley have become insolvent is devoid of truth. Arrangements have been made for an exhibition to take place in 1886 on the site occupied by the International Fisheries Exhibition. It will be confined to the products of various British t olonies. Two disastrous explosions for wbich no explanation can be given occurred last n'K'nt un tb»? underground Metropolitan Railway. Thirty persons were seriously injured, and the buildings above the tunnel were shattered by the force of the explosion. Paris, 0 tober 30. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, Challem«'cle was questioned by the leaders of the radical parly regarding the intentions of the Government in connection with tbe expedition, to Tonquin'. In reply, Lacour stated that the French Government was resolved to push operations in Tonquin «fi mly and rapidly. A debate on the subject ensued, but was ultimately ad j o uraed.