CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 110, 15 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (TEH UNITED PHKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 12. Foot and mouth disease is spreading throughout England, bcotlaud, iind Belgium. The election of a member to fill the vacancy in the Kirkealdy seat, caused by | the death of Sir George Campbell, took place to*day, when Mr Dulz el (Gladstone Liberal) was returned by a majority of 1036 over his opponent Mr Cox, the Conservative candidate. Mr W. B Perccyal, Agent-general for New Zealand, has invited the leading colonial bankers and merchants and others to meet Lord Glasgow, the new Governor of New Zealand, on Thursday next. A crowd of upwards of four thousand residents of the ICast End received i General Booth with marked hostility when he paid a visit to that quarter of the city yesterday. The General attempted to address a meeting but he was howled down by the mob and assailed with cries of " Old Sweater," " Where's the money gone to." The hostile crowd was composed chiefly of dossers and wood choppers, who consider they have a grievance against the leader of the Salvation Army. March 13. Three hundred thousand miners ceased work yesterday, and a further 100,000 will go out next week. ■ It has not been decided how long the strike is to last, but it is believed the majont p of the men will return to work after the first week. Holden, a sergeant of Engineers, was charged at Manchester with selling plans of the defences of Malta to France. He was remanded. Brussels, March 11, The Belgian Government is inviting the Great Powers to send representatives to a conference to consider what plan of common action should be taken against the Anarchists. By an explosion in a coal mine at Charleroi 300 miners have been entombed but hopes are entertained that they will all be rescued alive. March 13. J?iffcy»six miners have been rescued from the mines at Charleroi. It is now believed that two hundred of the men have been killed by the explosion. Paris, March 11. The house of the judge who tried the Paris anarchists has been wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. Two persons were injured* The damage is estimated at 20,000 francs. Berlin, March 11. The German Miners' Federation advise members to help the English miners b} refusing to execute orders received from England. Lisbon, March 11. Information has been received here to the effect that the authorities have succeeded in quelling the revolt among the native soldiers belonging to the Portu« guese expedition on Lake NyassaIn the engagements 600 of the rebels were killed and 400 taken prisoners. On the Portuguese side eleven men were killed and 31 wounded. Zanzibah, March 13. The report that Colonel Ropers had I been defeated at Witu is not true. So far from suffering a reverse, he inflicted a severe defeat on the rebel natiyes.