Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 143, 23 May 1893, Page 3

Cable Brevities

A serious landslip has taken place at Vaerdal, a village of Norway, 45 miles north-east of Troudhjem, at the head ol its fiord. Large farms suddenly sank and their place was converted into slinij! land. A hundred bodies haye been ro« covered. The barque Templeton experienced frightful weather when crossing the Atlantic. During a fierce squall, one of her yards, on which ten of her crew were engaged furling the canvas, was carried away, and all those on it were drowned. The western collieries, N.S.W , hare received notice of a general s'rike ngainst the reduction in the hewing rates. The strike will affect 600 men. The Presbyterians are agitating for the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Methodists have appointed a day of prayer to secure the just treatment of the Chinese. Charles de Lesseps has Wen removed from gaol to a hospital. He is suffering from severe melancholia. The House of Commons has adjourned until the 29th lost, for the Whitsuntide holidays. Lord Wolverton, one of the Lords-in-Waiting, has resigned his f'ourt office, owine to a disagreement over the Home Rule Bill. A platforci at a Women's Congress, in Chicago, collapsed. Serenty-fire people were hurt, eight seriously. Healy, an officer in the Sydney Post Office Bank, has been arrested on a charge of fraud in connection with his department. The Czar has abolished corporal punishment of women in Siberia. The Her Marshall Lang, of Glasgow, has been elected Moderator of the Established Church of Scotland.