CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 70, 30 November 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright jPJSh UNITED 'PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London. Novemner 28-

It is considered probable that the De.pnrtraeutal Committee established by .Mr Go:'(-.h<M! will recommend trustees being allowed to invest in colonial securities* when colonial stock has averaged 105 six mouths prior to the investment being made.

A Bill drafted by Sir F. D. Bell will bo introduced iuto the Imperial Parliament next session, dealing' with unclaimed stock dividends. Foreigners resident in the colonies having made complaints to the Colonial Office of a difficulty in. securing complete naturalisation for the whole of Australia the Homo authorities express themselves in favour of amending- the naturalisation laws so as to fall in with the views of the petitioners. The barque Elna, of 465 tons, which left Syduey for Oallao on April 16th, and the ship County of Carnarvon, which left Newcastle for Valparaiso ou June Ist have beeu posted at Lloyd's as missing. Atra conference at Newport, Wales, re presenting 300,000 miners, resolutions in i favour of eight hours as a day's work were carried by a large majority. - At the Unionists' convention held at Nottingham, a resolution was passed in favour of the principles adopted by the National party. Lord Salisbury coucurs in the resolution. A formidable infernal machine has been discovered in the house of a tenant on the Clanricarde estate, who was about to be evicted. The sentence of death passed on Laurie for the murder of an English tourist named Rose, at Goat Fell mountain, Arran Island, will not be carried out at j present, a reprieve having been granted. . .VlnNsTEßrNoveml)er 28. All the miners entombed by a subsidence of the -mine at Recklinghausen ha?e been rescued alive. San FbanciscoJ November 28. , Information has reached here that a large lunatic asylum at Blackinouth, a town in Idaho State, has been destroyed by fire and. that eight of the unfortunate patients perished "in the flames. Btt.s-KLs November 28. Conillian, .proprietor of the cartridge factory at Antwerp, at which an explosion occurred on September 6th by which 200 persons were killed and burned, has been^ sentenced to four years' imprisonment for negligence. Caibo. No' om'-ier 28. News has been received here. to the effect that' extensive operations are being commenced by the Khalifa for the prosecution of hostilities against Egypt, and large reinforcements are gathering at Dongola. The Dervishes are continuing their raids in Abyssinia, and now hold the whole of the province evacuated by Emm Bey. -