LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 16, 26 July 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY. SHOCKING LOSS < F LIFE. i THE MOROCCO TROD BLR | CAPTAIN STAIRS' EXPEDITION. ! A CLERGYMAN SENT TO PRISON. (PICK UNITKII P!M-:S8 ASSOCIATION.) Washington, July 25 By an explosion in a colliery al Pottsville, eight men were killed, and it is not expected that 15 others will be res cued. Lonpon, July 25. Tlie Foreign Minister of Morocco has arrived at Tangiers nnd has requested Sir Evan Smith to resiyne negotiations. Ho anaounced that the Grand Vizier and two Commissioners will shortly arrive and await Sir Eynn Smith's pleasure. The British Commissioner declined to have anything to do with them until an apology was offered for the insults he received at Fez. It i» reported that the Sultan nearly fainted at the end of the interview with Sir Evan Smith. The Rev Mr Cotton has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and mulcted in a tine of £400 for illtreating children in the Carogh Orphanage, County of Kildare. The Financial News states that Dibbs Knighthood is compensation for the failure of his mission. Lamentable accounts have reached here of the condition of the Jewish emigrants sent from Russia to Argentine Republic by Baron Hirsch. New Yobk, July 25. Vanderbilt's yacht, while cruising in American waters, was run down by a steamer. The family who were on board were rescued before the yessel sank. Zanzjbak, June 25 The Arabs in the Upper Congo have revolted, and all communication between that district and Lake Tanganyika has been cut off. The survivors of Captain Stairs' expe» dition to Katanga have arrived. Captain Stairs died on the Zambesi, and the men were compelled to subsist for a month on ants and locusts. Calcutta, July 24. Lord Roberts, Commander* in-Chief ot India, thinks it improbable that British troops will have lo take yart in any Con linental war, and it is the primary duty of England to increase the military dc fences and strengthen Ihe colonies. He favours the retention of the long service system. St. Pktebsbubg, July 25. Cholera has reached Nym and Novgorod, m Central Russia.