Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 104, 21 February 1893, Page 2

Gable Brevities

Twenty.»seven miners have been suffocated by an escape of gas in a lead mine at Mnzzaron (Spain). The wires and families of the deceased rushed to the scene of the disaster, and most pitiful scenes were witnessed. The Monetary Conference will not as* semble again, the Great Powers being convinced that no satisfactory result is likely to ensue. Mr Edward S.W. De Cobain, formerly member for Belfast East, who in April, 1891, was accused of a grave criminal offence, and who fled to Spain, has been arrested in Dublin and will be placed on trial. The Czar has remitted the death sentences passed on those convicted of com* plicity in the cholera riots in Astrakhan. Sir G. B. l)ibbs (of Sydney) state) he claimed no right respecting appointment of i he Governor, bat expects to be in* formed of the selection before the final appointment in order that lie may inform the Secretary of State for tbe Colonies whether the appointment would giro satisfaction. The election for the vacant seat at Hexham in the House of Commons took place on Saturday and resulted aa follows :— Mr Maclnnes (Liberal) 4804 ; Mr fi. Clayton (Conservative), who was returned at the general election, but unseated on the grounds of corrupt practice, 4358, In Congress Mr Waugb, member for the State of Indiana, in a speech said he would not believe Mr L. W. Turpin, member for Alabama, on bis oath. An uproar resulted, and Turpm struck Waugh a heavy blow in the face. As order could not bo maintained, Congress ad* journed. The Pope, in replying to an address presented by pilgrim*, stated he longed for the cessation ot the conflict between the Vatican and the Italian sovereignty.