HOME & FOREIGN CABLES. EXPLOSION OF A CAISSON.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 65, 13 September 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES. EXPLOSION OF A CAISSON.

FIX PKOPLE KILLED. ! iiiS WINDWARD POLAR EXPEDITION. THE INCOME TAX IN NEW ZEALAND. A FRENCH COLONIAL ARMY. A TITLED LADY SENT to PRISON. (Per Preps Association). New York, Sept. 11. At the annual reunion of the Federal Confederate Veterans at Louisville a caisson containing powder exploded, killing six of the militia. London, Sept. 11. Sir F. C. Lascelles will succeed Sir E. S. B. Malet as British Ambassador at BcrliD, who resigned owing to ill healthThe Polar expedition in the steam yacht "Windward, formed by Messrs Jackson and Hurmswortli under the leadership of the former, has reached Vardoe. The expedition set out in July, 1894, going by way of Franz Josef Land. Three of the Windward's crew died from scurvy. Jackson sledged northward on March 8 News lias beeu received of the death in Italy of Mr W. H. Hurlburt, an American journalist, who figured prominently in 1891 in a breach of promise action brought against him by Miss Evelyn, an actress. The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce protests against New Zealand assessing income tax profits on orders taken by English commercial travellers. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,280,000 quarters, and for the Continent 790,000 quarters. The estimated American visible wheat supply is 47,600,000 bushels. Lady Frances Gunning lias been convicted on a charge of having forged her father's names to bills of exchange, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisnment with hard labor. Parts, Sept. 11. General Doddw, of Dahomey expedition fame, advocates the immediate creation of a French colonial army, which he considers would prove a formidable sveapon. _^____^_