CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 28, 3 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER UNITED PKUSS ASnOCI ATION .) London. August 31. Captain O'Shea is about to marry an English, lady. By an explosion in the Malago Colliery, Bedminster, several miners lost their lives. There is a boom in Amfncan railway stocks, both in London and New York. September 1. Twelve thousand miner's at Wrexham, and twenty thousand at Chesterfield, have struck, demanding weekly wages and eight hours a day. September 2. The Times states that if France wishes England y> remain in the occupation of Egypt, she should assist Russia to open the Dardanelles. Vienna, September 29. The Neve Freie Presse declares that if France buys Russia's friendship by conniving at the destruction of the most necessary clause of the Treaty of Paris, Europe is on the eve of very serious complications, for the great Powers are unanimous in the determination to resist such a course. Bebliic, September 1. Baron Von Sturm, one of the largest employers in Germany, has eiven his men a substantial increase in wages anc pensions, to meet the increased price of food. Bomr, September. The Italian Budget estimates that the expenditure for 1892 will be reduced by 25.000,000 francs. St, Petersburg, September 1. Nihilists have murdered the Chief of Police at Bielaia Zerkoff, near Ciev. Bebne, August 31. The Simplon Railway tunnel is estimated to cost eiarhty million francs, and the boring will take eight and a half years to complete. Cairo, September 1. Dervishes are again making headway in some force. A body of them are approaching Sarrachs. New Yobk, September 1. A Russian cruiser fired on and captured an American sealer carrying on its calling Behring Sea.