LATE CABLES.

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

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (FEB UNITKDPBES. ASSOCIATION) Pabis. November 29. A terrible explosion occurred to-day at ' Marseilles. 300 barrels aboard a ship lying in the bay became ignited and ex-. ploded. No further details to hand. Sydnkt. Thin Day. ■ Heddleson, the well-known cricketer, has received ten years imprisonment for embezzlement. London. November 38. The tenants of Mr Olpherls's estates iv Ireland, where evictions bave heen proceeding for some time past, have abandoned the Plan of Campaign. The Rev Dr Parry, late Suffragan Bishop of Dover, who resigned his office recently in consequence of illhealth, . is reported to be in a precarious -condition. ■ Martin Farquhax Tupper, the -wellkcown author and poet, is said to be dying. A protest has been lodged at the Colonial Office against the consecration of the Rev Canon W. Saumarez Smith as Primate bf Australia. * The Financial Times say. there is no* hope that Victoria will desist from further borrowing until that Colony meets with a rebuff. The journal declares that Victorian stocks are overquoted. and Bays it is absurd for a colony to think of bor* rowing under 4 per cent. In consequence of foreigners being engaged in working British ships at Bristol, 7000 dock labourers have. gone out on strike. , . Nkw Tobk, November 28. ■* Eight thousand people have' been thrown out of work by the disaster at Lynn. Massachusetts. The damage by the fire is estimated at 1,000.000 dollar.. Half the damag., however, is covered by insurance.