CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 28, 17 August 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

~ . i (ketjtee's telegbams.) j Received August 17. 1.5 p.m. <• I London, August 16. Per Merchant Shipping Underwriter Association. Armed ship Hermoine, from Auckland, April 25th. ~ | Rio De Janbbo, August 16. j Sailed, this morning for Plymouth. ! Shaw Saviile and Co. steamship Arawa. ! Cargo ef meat in good condition. Lonsok, Aufcust 13. An alarming colliery explosion occurred to-day at Woodend, LancashireThirty miners are entombed, and serious fears are entertained for their safety. - .-.; -t A dastardly outrage has been perpetrated at Perry. As an Orange, procesßioa was parading (he streets, bottles, containing gunpowder, with lighted fuses attached, were thrown amongst the processionisfa, bat fortunately no one was harmed. It is announced that a meeting of the Cabinet has been held, at which Sir M. Hicks-Baach, Chief Secretary for Ireland reported the state of that country as reassuring. ' . The Cabinet decided that Parliament shall bo prorogued as soon as supply has been obtained. Intelligence hat been received from Texas that a large number of Tdxans threaten to make, a . raid .on Mexico, for the purpose of releasing an „ American journalist who has been imprisoned there for libel. ■ It is considered improbable that any steps will be taken ■'■ towards prosecuting Sir Charles Dilke for perjury in connection with his evidence at the recent Crawford dirorce case. Home, August 12The Emperors ef Austria anil Germany have caused the Pope te be informed that at the meeting at (xastein they hare under consideration the present potation of the papacy. His Holiness replied, expressins: thanks to their Majesties for the intimation, • . .