LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 45, 3 October 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph— Copyright (PER PKEBB ASSOCIATION.) - ' Naples, October l\ A terrible railway accident occurred at Aiiano, a town of Southern Italy. Tw o f xpress trains collided in a tunnel, twenty carriages were smashed and mauy of the occupants were killed. . , London, ' clober 1. The revenue of 3reat~ Britain, for the last quarter is £94,000 in excess of the same penod last year. Letters appear in the press suggesting that the Australian colonies ought to express their wishes as to the disposal of^-- -?r the balance of the strike fund. Burnfl^b states that £7,000 has been invested by '*' the trustees. He also" denies that he has sent an remittance to the Botterdain strikers. The Parnell Defence Fund, which has reached £41,000, is now closed. Mr Burns -will contest th« Battersea seat. He denies that there is any considerable surplus from the strike .fund, but expresses himself ,m favour of consulting the donors as to its disposal. Mr Darby Shtlley, who was oncenominated to the Governorship of South Australia died insane at Broadtnoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. " -" ■ Mr Burns has subsoiibed in aid of the tailors on strike,. in return for the assist' ance they rendered to dock men. Lord Mayor Whitehead has declined to agree to the proposal made by the London dockmen to be allowed to walk in the Lord Mayor's procession as a mark of gratitude for his mediation. SyuKRY, October 2. In regard to the changes in the moon's surface lately reported. , Mr Russell, Government abserver, says two mountains have disappeared and two c6nspic T ious crater- have taken their place. One is a mile and three' quarters in "diameter," and the other is somewhat larger. The latter- is surrounded _by a white wall, ap: parently frcibly thrown up. Two smaller craters are almost visible. ADKL4IDB. October 2. , A cabman named Crawford shot his wife three times, and the unfortunate woman is dying. The case i> attributed to the disolute habits of the wife. Kio db Janieeo, September 28. . The Brazilian Government have issued - a £20,000,000 conversion loan. Received October 3, 1 p.m. Sydnkt, This Dht. Messrs Ellery, Eussell and Todd, Goverment Observers of Victoria, N.S.W, and South Australia, all discredit the theory of Mr Egeson, of the Weather Department, in predicting a long drought next year. The stonewall over the Supplementary Estimates still continues, the remuneration of Mr John Davies, C.M.G., being the particular point at issue.- The debate has been marked by a discreditable washing of dirty linen on the part of Sir H. Parkes and Mr Dibbs, leader of the Opposition.