CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— ■ « : :— By Electric '.Telegraphy — Copyright JPKR UNITaID PRHSS ASSOCIATION.! London, May 7. The Wanganui and. Napier Harbor Board debentures have sustained a further--faU of d 0... , Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Oxford, said he had suggested to Mr Gladstone and the Premier that a compromise should be arranged on the Irish Land Purchase Bill. v A colliery at Leigh, in Lancashire, is on fir*. Throe hundred and fifty of the workmen are entombed, and the work of rescue is being carried on from an adjoin' ing pit. It is rumoured that a valuable discovery of gold has been made, at Dunnode, County Cork. Mr Burns declines to discuss .the eight hours question with Mr Bradlaugh except in Hyde Park. , May 8. Three hundred and fifty colliers are entombed at Leigh. , In the Appeal Court, the case of Mr Wilham O'Brien, M.P., T. Lord Salisbury, an action for slander in which judgment had been given for defendant, and a new trial refused by the Divisional Court, is being argued. Obituary— Mr James Nasmyth, Engineer and author of works on mechanism and astronomy; aged-82. Eight thousand two hundred quarters of New Zealand wheat, April . shipment, have been sold at 34s 9d. It is stated that when in Africa Stanley made treaties with the Natives for a route from Lake Albert Nyanza to Zanzibar. ■ Vikgihia, May 8. Twelve baseballers have been drowned by the capsizing of a ferry boat. Pabis, May 8. General Mirebar, Chief of the Staff, will be appointed to the supreme command of the French armies in the event of war. He is about to undertake the organisation of colonial defence. Intelligence has been received that the King of Dahomey has agreed to release the French prisoners. St. Petebbbttbg, May 8. The process of Russianising Finland is causing muoh discontent, which has been further accentuated by the refusal of the | Czar to receive a deputation on the subject. 3lkw Yobk, May 7. Singer's sewing machine factory at New Jersey has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at one million dollars. Zanzibab, M»y 7. The Germans have occupied Eolima, situated about one hundred miles inland from the Port of Mombassa, on the Suabeli coast. : Buenos Ayres, May 7. Customs frauds to the extent of 10,000,---000 dollars annually have been discovered here.