CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 98, 11 February 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEI« tr.MTSI) PRKSS ASSOCIATION.! London, February 7. ' Scores of bodies have been seen in the colliery at Newport, but the rescue parties are unable" to reach them. The majority of those rescued are seriously injured. The explosion was heard for miles round. Those bodies which have been recoyered are dreadfully mangled. There was a fearful scene at the mouth of the' mine as soon as the news of the accident was confirmed. • It is understood that Lord Salisbury will comply with the request for a Conference on the Zambesi question. It is reported that the Portuguese continue the system of terrorising the residents in the disputed East African districts. Lord Hartington has started on a visit to Egypt. Third trial of the cruiser Barracouta proved a failure, the boiler exploding and injuring 10 of the crew. From a Newport mine, in Wales, 160 bodies have been recovered. February 8. Dr Tanner. M.P. for Cork, has withdrawn his appeal against the sentence passed on him for using threatening language to Mr Berry, M.P. for Wexford, and has been bound over to keep the peace toward that gentleman. Charlie Mitchell and Jem Mace had a boxing contest for £1000. In the fourth round Mitchell won easily. Spasmodic, outrages are being committed on English residents at Lisbon and Oporto. The Republican press there exaggerate the matter in view of the elections. . The dockers have withdrawn the manifesto forbiding the loading of noD -union carmen, and the blocking of Hay's goods, except at Hay's wharf. The master lightermen have formed a union, and any member, retaining a man refusing to navigate barges forfeits L2OO. All fear of a general strike is oyer. The Times asserts that the Emperor of Germany and Prince Bismarck, are in 1 accord as to the proposed Conference on the labour question. The Daily Telegraph stateß that the Times-Parnell Commission wiU report that it is impossible to exonerate the Parnelliteß from the charges as it was not ' trying to separate political societies from \ others "avowing crime and outrage. • Sailed to-day — R.M.S. Kaikoura, from Plymouth, for New Zealand. Benzon was remanded for a week on \ the charge of forgery. The young man ' is overcome by the position in which he has plunged himself, and weeps freely. [ A hundred and seventy-five bodies have [ been recoyered from the Newport colliery. Allpress, the Melbourne bank robber, awaits the arrival of a detective from Victoria. About £3500 has been recovered, including a draft for £2000 payable to Army tage (the name he assumed as an alias) at Durban, in Natal. The remainder is in Australian notes. Pabis, February 8 The Due d'Orleans offered to enlist as , a private soldier in the ranks unknown to , his family. When the news that he had s been arrested became known, it caused considerable excitement, i - Athrns, February 8. . Greece is preparing to take action in } the Cretan question. " Constantinople, February 8. l A widespread plot has been discovered :, by the Turkish authorities with the object j- of restoring Midhat Pasha, insisting on various reforms, and fomenting risings in Macedonia, Crete, and Armenia.