CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 111, 13 March 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric , Telegraph.— -Copyright JPKK HNITiID PRKSS ASSOCIATION [ • London, Man-h li. One hundred miners are reported to be eutombed by a colliery explosion id Wales. The Welsh colliery in which the aqcident took place, is choked with debrits which prevented help being given to. the imprisoned men. It is feared the death roll will reach 150. The Tichborne claimant's candidature for Stoke-upon-Tieut is void, his deposit money not having been lodged. The Cambridge crew are improving in public favour for the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race. A verdict of murder by some person .unknown has been returned in the West Ham murder case. A meeting in Hyde Park condemned the Siberian atrocities. John Burns denounced the Czar. In consequence of the strikes, trade in Liverpool is at a standstill. The coal owners offer to make a concession to the men if the .arbitrator, after an inspection of the books, declares such a course possible. ' Mr Sydney (ledge, M.P. for Stoekport, has given notice that he intends to raise a debate on the Victorian Divorce Bill, to enable the Governor eut to explain the atUtude they have taken up. Brown and Wingrove, a firm of bullion dealers in Cheapside, are baukrupt." Their liabilities are.; £300,000. It is expected that all claims will lie paid in full. Mr Heau's report will be awaited before the management of the Bank of New Zealand is removed to Loudon. I At Sir F. D. Bell's request the Treasury has authorised the Sidney and Melbourne Mints to receive gold coins issued before 1837 up to the end of April. Sir William Robinson has secured Miss Adela Knight, of Melbourne, an introduction to the Princess of Wales. Much interest is expressed in the medical career of this ydting lady, who ■ obtained her diploma as doctor of medicine last August. . TheAorfa colliery is on fire. Paris, lVtarcli 10. News has- been received that, the prisoners in Dahomey have not been harmed,. ._ The Hague. March 10. The King of Holland is again m a precarious state of health. Hosa Kong, March 10. H.M.S. Cordelia .10 guns, 58J8Q tons sails on the 16th March for sumce on the Australian station. Ottawa, March 10. A man named Birchall and his wife, an ; adventuress, were found guilty of the murder of Mr Ben well, a wealthy Englishman, whom they lured to Canada. It is feared that others have fallen victims to the same criminals; Washington. Mnrch 11.' Mr Taulbec, the member for Eentuoky, who was shot in the corridor of the Capitol by a reporter, at the beginning of the month, is dead, s IS 7 kw Orleans, March 12. Sir T. Esmonde, in the course of a speech said the Irish delegates had collected a hundred and -fifty thousand (? dollars) in Australia! Received March 13. noon. Zanzibar, March 12. The news previously received that Major Wissinan had captured Bowhanerie's stronghold has been confirmed. Although Wissman had only 500 men at his command he inflicted heavy losses on the enemy's forces, while the casualties reported on the German side are slight. Wissman did not capture the Arab leader. Caiko, .VI arch 1 8: This season has been an exceptionally favorable one, and it is expected that the corn yield from the spring harvest will be the largest ever known in Africa. St. Petbksbukg, March 12. Schebrikora, correspondent to the Czar, was arrested on his return to Russia for writing a letter to the Czar, in which he made an impassioned appeal for reforms in the government of Russia,