CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 68, 15 November 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■■ ♦> THE PITTSBURG MINE EXPLOSION.

HEARTRENDING SCENES AT THE MOUTH OF THE PIT. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PKK UNITJiD PRESS ASSOCIATION J Ix»ndon. November 13. Major General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of Police, has resigned his position. The resignation has been accepted. It is expected that Mr James Monro, one of the assistant Commission ei>, will succeed Bir Chsrle-i. Lord Tennyson has been seriously m» disposed, b"t is now recovering. In the House of Commons to«dav, Baron de Worms, replying to the Right Hon. H. C Clii.'derg. said the Government had decided to ask Sir Thomas Mcllwraith to state his objections to the appointment of Sir H. A. Blake to the Governorship of Queensland. The International Trades Congress has closed its sittings. The British Unions evinced a ereat suspicion against foreign schemes of labour organisations The Daily Telegraph, in the course of an article on the Queensland Governorship, says Lord Kuutsford should have consulted the Government of Queensland informally on the question of the appointment of a Governor. The Times says Sir A. H Blake has proved himself to be a remarkably clever administrator, and that he possesses ex cellent social qualities. The Times doubts that there is any ground for the complaint that the appointment was influenced by a desire to yield to the wishes of his friends. Mr William Redmond, M.P., has been released from gaol. The Boards of Guardian at Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, and many other places have presented a petition to Parliament in favour of the self-supporting system of emigration. Mr W. H. Smith, referring to the presentation of the petition, in the House of Commons, said it was the inteution of the Government to set up a Select Committee shortly to inquire into the different schemes of State colonisation. It is reported that Sir Henry Edward Bulwer, High Commission of Cyprus, may be appointed to the Governorship of Queensland, instead of Sir A. H, Blake The play of both the English and [ Native football teams in the Halifax match was of a brilliant description. The English footballeis who have been making a tour of the Australasian colonies have arrived safely. The Native football team defeated Newcastle district club by four goals and two tries to nothing. Mr J. .Thomson, explorer of Masai Land between Lake Victoria Nyanea and the East Coast of Afrroa, has undertaken to lead an expedition for .the relief of Emm Bey. He proposes to start in a month. Mr Thomson expresses his belief that Stanley is dead. The police have not yet found the slightest ciuo to the Whitechapel murderer. i Sir FD. Bell is still endeavouring to obtain a Railway Commissioner for New Zealand. The limit of £2500 has been ' increased to £300'), in the hope that the concession will lead to a superior class of men applying. It 18 (bought probable Sir Pope Hennessy, governor of Mauritius, and Sir H. Blake will exchange. A cargo of Victorian wheat has been sold at 42* 2d. Four thousand fire hundred quarters of Adelaide wheat, August shipment, sold at 445. Paris, f*ovemb»r 12. An institute founded in this city by Pasteur, the celebrated scientist, will be opened on Wednesday. Zanzibar, November 12. The British agent in this town reports that he paid a visit to the missionary stations at Nombasa port on the main land, where he found no less than 14*>0 runaway slaves, who had been received and protected by the missionaries. On behalf of the British Government he as* sured thera of their freedom, but owing to the difficulty of providing for and dis* posing of such a large number of people, lie thought it best t) ask for instructions before taking further action. Bkblin, November 13. Nord Deutsche Zeitung accuses the French Cabinet of inciting war. The accusation arises from the publication of an article in M. Lockroj's journal, Le Rappel, urging the creation of a regiment of Alsatians. New York, November 13. Ninty»six bodies have been recovered from the debris of the mine at Pittsburg, where the explosion occurred on the 10th. The mutilated, blackened remains presented a shocking, sickening appearance. Heartrending scenes were witnessed at the mouth of the pit, as the bodies brought to the surface were recognised by their relatives, many of whom were women and children, distracted. It is believed that there are 40 more to be takeu out of the mine. I _