LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 32, 25 August 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

THE MINER'S DIFFCULTY. THE MEN DECIDED TO GO OUT IN A BODY. THREE THOUSAND ENGLISH MINERS CABLED FOR. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Newcastle, August' 24. " ' A ballot of the miners Was taken today to decide whether a week's extension of time should be granted the i masters for further negotiations, and the question was decided in the negative, whereupon the miners be* longing to the different Societies were instructed bring out their tools at the close of the day's work. It is reported here that 3000 English miners have been cabled for. -,-•'■/.:-.■ ; Sydney* August 24. The case Davies v. National' Insurance Company of New Zealand, an action to recover the amount of policies on the plaintiff's butter, which was stored in a factory burned down some time ago, was heard in the Supreme Court to-day, and a verdict for £3000 was entered for plaintiff. ' Pabis, August 22. Vice- Admiral Krantz, Marine Minister has ordered the immediate equipment of eight now ironclads at the Toulon dock-yards. : i "Vienna, August 23. Heavy floods have been experienced in the country districts. Several villages are submerged and many lives have been lost. : Home, August 23. A number of villages on the frontier have been destroyed by- tire, and : the inhabitants reduced to great distress. ' ■■ ' : ■.• : * ■-. : - ,"':_; DbEsbkn, Augustt 23. Great excitement was caused in Hamburg owing to the escape of thirteen crocodiles from a travelling show. They made their way the Elbe and up to the present have not been recaptured. The Hague, August 23. Sing William is seriously iIL It is feared that he may not recover. Zanzibar, August 22. \ News has been received here that Major Barttelot, with three Europeans and a force of 600 natives, left Zambeski early in Jane on his way to relieve Stanley. - ■ , .■