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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 67, 13 November 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

, • I By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. 1 (PliK UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) > New Yobk, November 12. , A fire broke out in a large factory at , Rochester. The employe's were compelled ; to jump from a window. Twelve were , killed and twenty injured. Twenty-one are missing, and it is feared they have perished in the flames. London, November 12. • In the House of Commons the Govern- | ment announced that they did not intend to alter the educational system, as the changes suggested by the Commission ! would only plunge the country into a religious turmoil, which would ultimately 1 prove disastrous to all concerned. > The Gorleston lifeboat, in attempting to rescue ihe crew of a shipwrecked yes« .tel, was capsized, and four of her crew drowned. Mr Balfour was accorded a great re> ception at the Lord Mayor's banquet, ' and in the course of a speech said the Government liad abandoned tne extension j clauses in Lord A>hbourne's Act. New Zenland hemp lias advanced, and is now quoted at from £"32 ICN to £32 los. Paris, ivovernb r 12. Jn tho Chamber of Deputies, .VI. Frt'jcinet, Minister of War, said that, until ihero was a change in the general situa> lion, it was impossible to hope that the ordinary war estimate could be reduced below five hundred and fifty millions, and it might even be necessary to make 1 special efforts to secure the better defence of the country. At present the extraordinary war Budget was five hundred millions beyond what had already been spent. He explained that this statement was made in view of the necessity for taking precautionary steps to maintain peace, and was not to be constructed into an indication of an aggressive intention on (he part of the Government. Bhisbank, November 12. Sedem, tbe Malay who was sentenced to death for the Norman ton murders in June last, was executed to-day. The execution was sadlj bungled, and the man was strangled to death