HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 252, 1 March 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE. A SERIOUS CHARGE DENIED. DEATH OF MADAME PATTI. j FROZEN MEAT TRADE. j CHAMPION BILLIARD PLAYING. ' COLONIAL BUTTER AT HOME. J TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION, j (PUB PHKSS ASSOCIATION ) , London. February 27 ( At the aunual mneting of the Colonial j Institute after a warm discussion the , Fellows of the Institute re-affirmed their refusal to amalgamate with the Imperial Institute. Madame Patti, the well-known con- ' { tralto singer, who visited the colonies a , few years ago, fainted at a concert in Sheffield and died within six hours. Mrs Martin (Mrs Victoria Woodhill) obtained a verdict, with nominal damages, against the British Museum ' compelling the removal of books from the library, dealing with the Beecher- ' Tilton scandal. ] The British Consul at Calais is obtaining from Sir W. B. Perceval details as to ' the cost of shipping frozen mutton, and ' the erection of cool stores, French batch- ' ers being desirous of experimenting in ' the trade. . Roberts, playing against Memmott in a game of 20,000 up, made a record break ! of 248 entirely off cannons. Memmott ' is playing well, and is likely to occupy a good position at the finish. The Lund Steamship Line has offered ' Mr Reid, the Victorian delegate, to carry butter at :jd, provided a contract be made for five years. • Pease's woollen mills at Darlington, Durham, have been burned down. Means of escape from the upper stories were cut off, but the girls managed to break through a skylight, and after a scene of great excitement, were all rescued. A thousand hands are thrown out of work. >t Petersburg, Februnrj 27. A boiler exploded in a foundry at Alexaudrovsk, and 25 men were killed and 10 seriously wounded. C'apktown, February 27 Some weeks ago Capt. Francis, of « Raaff's Raugers, was reported to have stated to a newspaper reporter that he saw a wounded Matabele shot down by the Bcchuanaland police and that he himself shot two prisoners. Capt. Francis now denies that he made the statements attributed to him in the interview. A clerk iii the Bauk of South Africa at Johannesburg has robbed the institution of £3000. Pabis. February 28 A number of important arrests of Anarchists have been effected in various parts of France. Rome, February 27 Several persons are being tried in Sicily for strangling and burying alive inmates of the Modica Orphanage. They are also charged with robbing the institution of funds contributed for its maintenance. Calcutta. February 27. A mass meeting, attended by both Europeans and natives, lias passed resolutions calling on the Government to settle the silver question by bringing about a general agreement of all nations.