LATA CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 95, 28 January 1888, Page 2

LATA CABLES.

By Electric Telegrapji.— Copyright. - [PKK VNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Sak>Fbancisoo, January 28. By a coilliery explosion -hf th« Welto*?&*.. gsr .s»w»* (and, 26 whites and a number of Chinese were killed. < Many ' other workmen received serious injuries. ( . ( JDublin, January 26. r , There was a explosion' 6f gas in this city last ; jnijrht, by which the Bankruptcy Buildings/ were;-cqm-plefely wrecked and_a.^boy killed. . : ,\ Sx. PEXBBSBUBOi January 2&7 ! 1 A hundredweight of powder ex-pl9J-edria^*hop in theitow^ df Bra& sltfy, in Western' RulTsia," wrecking tfie" building and instantly killing eleven persons- Who' were 1 standing near.' OthenP-were inubi 'injured. It is supposed that ihi/AbAdent wis caused by someone carelessly' throwing down a lighted match. Pabis, Jsnuirr/26. Parleyings between the ! dteljj|a>s'of France, and Italy, m tes.p|cj to th> cofmmercial treaty, have'rneen brbltett off. Some unexplained and sudden disagreement arose, wnich resultedin the French delegates being re-called. The Prefect of Nancy, one of the frontier "capitals, reports' that there was no violation of the frontier regulations in the latest "Iniiident," when a French gamekoeper has his rifle seized' by a German exciseman. The Prefect says the matter is only the result of a private quarrel between the two; and is too trivial to call for any diplomatic) ihterf lftnee. ' : : \ ' , :Conßta»tinof£k, .JTaiqsrj 26. The . Sultan has ordered the arrest of 200 Armenians for .treason. ■•■ :; : London, January 26. Lord Brassey, in delivering an address to the London and Frovincial Chan>bere of Commerce, admitted that the colonial- defences wen skilfully directed, and) eugolieed the soldierly qualities of the Australian troops. He said that Sydney and Melbourne had set a noble example in building graving docks suitable : for effecting repairs to vessels of the Imperial Navy. He, insisted onithe defences of i Albany, Thursday Island, and Port Darwin being effected, arid urged the Chambers to cultivate piiblio opinion in th» direction indicated.: The Diik« & Cambridge, who ; was present, • - indorsed the opinions of Lord Brassey; " and Lord Charles Beresford thorough!jagreed with the necessity for 'defend" ing the stations named. After hearing the. views of Lord .JBrassey, the Okfty^Sra Wfc^Jo m.Ake.ancfrease.d/ effort* to defend the oceari-rod&i. * ;