CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 65, 18 November 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (TEH UNITHD PUKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 14. H. M.S. Serpent, wrecked off the coast ef Spain, struck during the middle watch. Her boilers exploded, and the majority of ■ those aboard being asleep, their was no time to launch the boats. The survivors of H.M.S. Serpent agree that the striking of the ship on tbe rocks was a terrible surprise to all on board, and they believe that the compasses were affected by minerals on the coast. Miss Biordan, who confessed to shooting Professor Bright, of Oxford, in a fit of jealousy, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. The signalman who was arrested in connection with the railway collision at Taunton has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. It is stated that Mr Parnell resigns the leadership of the Irish party. Sofia, November 15. A train conveying soldiers in Salonica, Roumelia, became derailed, and 30 of the occupants were killed and 40 injured. Berun, November 15. Dr Koch is ill, having been inoculated with lymph, and it is feared that tuberculosis has set in. Dr Libberts, of Berlin, is selling a consumptive lymph, the component parts of which are not revealed. It is claimed that it kills the tubercle tissue and not the baccili, and that the former is afterwards removed by a surgical operation. Ottawa, November 15. The sentence of death passed on Birchall for the murder of an English tourist named Bennett was carried out to-day. A bungle was made of the execution, and it was fully six minutes before the condemned man was strangled. The body was intered within the goal walls. j