LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 151, 16 June 1891, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(PRB TTNITED PKRS- ASSOCIATION). Eeceived, June 16, 10.20 a.m. - - I'ALCTTTTAiJune 15.. It was the Sanapati, or Commander-in-chief, who was sentenced to death for complicity in the Manipnri massacre, not Jobraj as previously telegraphed. The* trial of the latter is not yet concluded. London, June 15. ■ A fire broke oufe in the hold of the Intnan Liner, City of Richmond, when four days steaming from the Irish coast. It was first discoyered at night and caused great excitement among the passengers, three hundred of whom rushed on to the deck in their night dresses. The ship'sboats were '-prepared for any emergency and efforts made to extinguish, the fire, which was burning among her cargo of cotton. In the morning a steamer arriyed near the City of Richmond, and stood by her all day in readiness to -tranship passengers and crew if the necessity arose. The flames were battened, down and the steamer kept on her course. . la the evening the Cunard steamer Serviaho ye in sight, and she .escorted the burnI ing steamer to- Queenstown, where the passengers were landed safely. Her cargo is still burning. The captain and crew of the City of .Richmond behayed with the utmost coolness and bravery. Berne, June 15. • Later particulars of the railway, acci- - dent near Basle Bhow that ,120 person's* have lost their lives, The train, whioli was conveying excursionists to a festival at Basle, became derailed as it approached the München Stein bridge and two engines and three passenger cars were immersed in the river Berse. Constantinople. June 15. Information has been received that the Assyrian Arabs -hay c broken out in revolt and attacked the Turkish troops, killing several officers and a hundred men. The Turkish Government has despatched a force of 10,000 men to put down the ingSt. Petebsbitbg, June 15. A. barge carrying convicts to Siberia sank in the Volga, and many lives were lost. Vienna, June 15 . "' The Austrian authorities are erecting barracks and fortifecation in Galicia for the purpose of checkmating Russian de« signs. Sydney, This Day. The Australian Typographical Union propose taking an immediate ballot on aproposal to raise the defence' funds to £40,000 by striking a small weekly levy on each member of the various affiliated societies. Melbourne, This Day. The Secretary of the Australian Shearers' Union has telegraphed to the leaders of Unions in Queensland, requesting them to urge the men out on strike not to disband, but to maintain the strike. The Secretary also" wired a money- order for £1100, with a promise that he would send another £1,000 to-day. In the course of an interview, - the Secretary of the Australian Shearers* Union ' stated .that even if the men in Queensland were defeated the terms offered by the Pastoralists' Union would be determinedly resisted by the Shearers' Union in Victoria and New" South "Wales. z Brisbane, This Day. The Government have decided to assist those shearers who are willing to return to work and will supply them with rations until they obtain employment. . By the mail steamer from Thursday Island particulars are to hand of the murderous attack which was made on the Czare witch ot Russia during his recent visit to Japan. It appears 'that the Czarewitch and his suite were riding,, when a policeman rushed at him and made a- desperate cut at his head with his sword, inflicting a nasty cut over the ear*