Special to "Star."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 17, 19 July 1884, Page 2

Special to " Star."

settee's telegbams. London*. July 18. A disastrous accident occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, railway. The axle of a carriage of the express train running from Manchester to Sheffield broke and the train left the rails and fell over an embankment. Twenty persons were killed and thirty others sustained severe injuries. Another battalion of infantry has been ordered to proceed to Egypt, and its departure is expected to take place immediately. The frozen mutton ex the steamer Iberia from Australia is realising 5d per lb, and that from the Aorangi from New Zealand s£d per lb. Cholera continues to rage at Marieilles and Toulon with unabated vigor, though the other parts of France are as yet free from the epidemic. In the House of Commons to-day, in reply to a q estion, Mr Gladstone stated that the financial experts had finished their deliberations and that the Conference would resume their sittings at an early date to consider their report. The Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend for the past half year at the rate of 16 per cent, per annum and carries forward and places to the reserve £39,000. Caibo, July 17. j In consequence ot the suspicion' which is entertained by the authorities aa to the fidelity of the native police now doing duty in this city, the strength of the British military police, which is retained here for maintenance of order, has been ma erially increased. New Youk, July 18. News has been received that the search expedition has' rescued the' Arctic exploring vessel Greely, and six of her" crew, in Smith's Sound, at tho north of Baffin's Bay. Received July 19, 11.30 a.m. London, July 18. Latest telegrams to hand state there is but little prospect ofa settlement being arrived at between France and China over the Langson embroglio The French fleet, under Admiral Combett, are now menacing Foochow, and will it is expe -ted seize that town unless the French demands are met. In the House of Commons to-day Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice took occasion to deny the truth of a statement recently current that England is about to annex Berber, a maritime station in Somabia country, opposite Aden,