LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 76, 15 December 1892, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

ANOTHER COLLIERY DISASTER 100 MINERS ENTOOMBED. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, December 14. An explosion has occurred in a colliery at Banfurling, in Wigan. A hundred men are entombed in the mine. Sir Pryce Pryce- Jones, Conseiyative, has been unseated for the Montgomery district. The petition against Dadabuhi Aaoroyis' return for Tinsbury was withdrawn. Paymaster Rice Morris, of H M.S. Nyphye, was sentenced to °ighteen months hard labour for falsifying ac counts and stealing £2000. City merchants consider that the proposal to grade butter shipped in the colonies will be fruitiess, as the voyage alters the value of the article. Mr Gladstone has conyened a meeting of the i abinet to consider the granting of autonomy to Ireland. Lord Rosebery expresses himself confident that the Government will be able to secure the adoption of a Home Rule policy. Zanzibar, December 12. Mr Rodd succeeds Sir G. Portal as British Consul here, the latter having been appointed Commissioner in Uganda. New York, December 13. Later news from the Homestead states that only six deaths have occurred among the non-unionists who partook of the poisoned food. Jay Gould's executors swear that he left seventy-two million dollars. News has been received that a thousand Yakin Indians have opened war on the J whites in Mexico, and are burning homesteads. A wealthy Spaniard and his two sons have been killed, besides six others. Five hundred soldiers have been sent in pursuit of the Indians. Washington, December 12. The Senate Committee favours the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, and are willing to guarantee honds to raise funds for carrying out the work. President Harrison declares there is a universal demand for the immediate construction of the Canal. December 13. The Committee of the Chicago World's Fair have asked Mr Gladstone to attend and deliver an address at the opening of the Exhibition. Other deaths at the Homestead haye been traced to poison. Inquiries made and au analysis of the powder introduced into the food showed it had a fatal effect. St. Petersburg, December 13. The deaths in Russia from cholera amount to 2,500 a week. Since the outbreak of cholera there hare been 550,000 cases in Russia, of which 260.U00 were fatal. Sofia, December 14. The Bulgarian Chamber of Deputies is pledged to support Prince Ferdinand's proposed alterations in the constitution. Paris, December 14. Rouvier has explained he resigned owinK to a suggestion of the press that lie was implicated with Reinach, whereas he had only in a spirit of humanity tried to serve the man whose honor and life were at stake. There was a great uproar in the Chamber owing to the insults levelled ai Rouvier by the Boulangists, but a majority accepted his statements. Tirard succeeds him as Minister of Finance, _______^___ m