CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 13, 30 July 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PEN UNITED Pit ESS ASSOCIATION .) London. July 28. Mr Henry John Atkinson, M.P. for Boston. Lincolnshire, has been saspended for a fortnight f or writing insulting letters to the .Speaker of the House of Commons and accusing lain of altering the terms of his questions. Eight persons were killed by the fall of a chimney at some chemical works in Gateshead. The Wesleyan Conference has passed a resolution condemning the placing of immoral men in high positions, and the Rev Mr Harrison of Manchester, openly prayed for the conversion of the Prince of Wales. Mrs Searle, formerly Miss Hopkins, of Sun Francisco, has died from influenza, leaving the immense sum of eight million pounds. The Grenadier Guards have arrived at Dover from Bermuda. The cholera, which has been yery prevalent in Mecca, has spread to Syria, and fears are entertained that Turkish negligence will allow it to spread into Europe The Bankruptcy Court, in camera, to dny, decided that Mr Parnell was domiciled in England, and consequently would be declared a bankrupt, unless he forth* with pays the coats of Captain O'Shea in the divorce proceedings, . Washington, July 28. Mr Wanamaker, Postmaster« General, is endeavouring to cemmence a fast fortnightly mail service between San Francisco and the Australian Colonies', the steamers calling alternately at Auckland ani Wellington. Paris, July 28. Further details of the railway accident at St. Mande shows that the first train was delayed and the second passed into it at full speed. St. Maude station was crowded with excursionists, and the accident took place in full view, and they cad to look on at the frightful calamity, powerless to assist. Twenty calcined bodies have been recovered from the ruins. It is stated that Vincennes had been warned by danger signals that the line was blocked, bat it is alleged the signals were wickedly changed, and the Westinghouse brake-tubing of the trains tampered with. The driver alleges that the rules are habitually violated. A Government cruiser has been purposely run on the rocks at Toulon by a disloyal crew. Received, July 30, 10.15 a.m. Pabis, July 29. M. Alphonse Rothschild and M. Effel are assisting M. .Tanssen to erect an observatory on Mount Blanc. The driver of one of the trains, which came into collision near St. Maude, has been arrested for disobeying signals. The under-stationmaster at Vincennes was also arrested. Lisbon, July 28. v An armed boat's crew belonging to the President Errarugia, a Chilian cruiser, which has just been released by the French Government, pursued the Portuguese police boat here for preventing the men embarking and a fight was narrowly averted. The Chilian Commander afterwards apologised, but not till all the Portuguese warships in the harbor had cleared for action. St. PKTKttsBUBG, July 28. The Czar and Czarina gave a state banquet to the officers of the French fleet at Petehoff. At midnight a band of Russian soldiers wantonly fired the Jewish hamlet at Riele. Fourteen of the inhabitants were burned to death and twenty badly injured. The. Jews in their desperation attacked the soldiers and killed several of them. Teheran, July 28. The girl Greenfield assured the British Consul she had been converted to Islamism and followed her husband. She refused to return of her own free will. Colombo, July 28. Mrs Pickatt, an Australian lady, who was converted to Budhism, committed suicide. In accordance with her will her remains were publicly cremated in the presence of seyen thousand Budhists.