CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 25, 27 August 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PKK UNITKD PKKSS ASS.OCI ATION .) London, August 24. It is estimated that the carpenters have lost half a million in rogea by the strike. Mr Baikes' death was the result of a slight stroke of lightning received while riding in Hyde Park - last month. It is stated that Mr Baikes' death was hastened by overwork. Mr H. M. Stanley and his wife leavefor Australia in the s.s. Arcadia. The Bey. Mr Spurgeon and Mr Justice Hawkins are both worse. News has been received of the / massacre by Esquimaux of 60 sailors belonging, to whaling steamers laid up in winter quarters at the beginning of the year* // New York, August 24. Advices from Central America report that the Chief of Police and six men were killed and fifty wounded in arresting ther leaders of the revolt., at Granada, in Nicaragua. . Beceived, August 27, 10.15 a.m. Ottawa, August 26. Counsel engaged before the Corrupt Practices Committee, on behalf of the officers of the Public Works Department admit that many of the charges against the Hon Thos. McQreevy have been proved, but deny that the officersiwere aware of the corruption. , New Yoek, August 26. The United States is organising am Antartic expedition. ' Capetown, August 26; " General " Booth haa been offered large tracts of land in South Africa for the purpose of carrying out his Colonisation scheme.