CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 31, 10 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«. ~ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER ONITtiU PHKSS ASSOCIATION.) London. September 8. Signor Foil, the well-known singer, had signed an engagement for an Australian tour. King Leopold, of Belgium, threatens that if Lord Salisbury claims Katinga. he will allow France to purchase the •.ongo Free State. The ship Ironeross, bonnd from Gefle, in Sweden, to Australia, has become a Mai wreck on the Swedish Coast. The crew were all saved. New York. September 8. The "Royal Tar from Sydney his put into San "Finncisco. The capinin and the first officer died of fever, and the crew are helpless with scurvy. The Rev Mr Spurgeon has recovered sufficiently to be able to leave the house Washington; September 8 The highwaymen who stuck np and robbed a train on the Southern Pacific line were overtaken after a long pursuit in Texas, and thirteen of them killed. In the fight two of the pursuers were killed. The money stolen was recovered. Just before an execution at St. Joseph, Missouri, a priest handed the condemned man a revolver. He fired twice at himself withput.serious effect, and was carried bleedinfeana; struggling to the scaffold, wherelh&sißntence was eventually carried into effect. A French parachutist fell front a height of 5000 ft into lake Peoria, Illinois. She was rescued alive but is not expected she Will recover from the shock. , Four hands < n the Royal Tar, which Has put into S«n Fmncisco, died of fever, contracted in German N"ew Guinea, from which she sidled on June 5. Her stores were exhausted, and the survivors of the crew are toothless and scarred with gangrene, the effects of ecurvy. Three o them worked the ship from Samoa, and as the remainder were unable to give help, they were kept on duty night and day all the way. Experiments are shortly to be made upon the feasibility of preventing early or late frosts by creating clouds. The exoerirnenters rely on the well known natural law that there is never frost when the sky is cloudy. Pabis, September 8. General Galhfet watched the manoeuvres of the French troops from a balloon and directed their movements by tele ■ phone. The police haye searched the house of the promoters of the Panama Canal for evidence in the charges to be brought against M. M. Ferdinand and Charles De Lesseps in connection with raising funds to continue the operations of the Panama Canal. Coampel, leader of the Lake T.?had ex» pedition, was murdered by his own troops owing to his roughness. The police who searched the houses of De Lesseps and hi* son succeeded in seizing a number of documents bearing upon the prosecution which is to be instituted against the famous engineer. Sofia, September 8. The house of Bishop Mothodius in Sofia lias been searched and archives seized as he is suspected of being implicated m the murder of M. Beltchoff, Bulgarian Minister of Finance, who was shot dead on the night of March 27.