CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 126, 21 April 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

I By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ; (PER UN mi I) PHKSS ASSOCIATION 1 .) j London, April 19. A severe snowstorm crippled the Easter Volunteer manoeuvres at Chatham and Dover. Many of t lie corps taking ' part in tlie slum fight were up to their knees in snow. A hundred thousand men were at Hnmpstend, where the crowd rushed t he railway platform. fearing lhat a storm was setting in. In descending , the stairs one or two women fell, causing j an accident, which resulted in two women and six boys being killed, and 13 injured. It is reported that the anti-Parnellites are boycotting the friends of the '" late uncrowned king of Ireland." The Hon A. J. Balfour was received in Ireland as the friend and saviour of the peasantry, and Messrs Healey and O'Brien were afraid to appear on the platfoFm unless Mr Balfour's friends were there to protect them. The Post asserts that the French con« suls report that the introduction of Victorian butter into the English market is a warning to the Normandy manufacturers Pabis, April 18. A lighted bomb was discovered in electrical works in Lille, but the fuse wus extinguished before it exploded. It is believed that the Anarchists intended to wreck the works. The natives haye repulsed a French expedition proceeding to Lake Tchad. Bivulin, April 19 Dr Loffler has inoculated mice with mouse typhus, and it is hoped this will exterminate the pest, which has caused great destruction throughout Greece. New York, April 18. By au esDlosion m powder mills in New Jersey ten persons were killed. Traders assert that the King of Dahomey two centuries ago buried treasure in Portonovo, and say tint t this explains the anxiety to capture the country.