DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1896, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

18 DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE. ( (Per Press Association.) l Monte Video, August 4. The Tongariro left here yesterday for London. Her meat is in good condition, and the passengers are all well. London, August 4. The Standard says that Mr Jackson, Secretary tor Ireland in the last Salis bury Government, has been offered the Presidency of the Committee to enquire into the Chartered Company. Lord Vaux represents England in the appeal against the acquittal of Lothaire. Unless to-morrow Gaudaur agrees to row Stanbury on September 7, the match will be declared off. Athens, August 4. In compliance with the request of the Powers, Greece has stopped a despatch for military assistance to the Cretan insurgents. Berlin, August 4. The heat is intense in Eastern Prus- | sia and 18 deaths from sunstroke have been recorded in Kouisburg in one day. St. Petersburg, August 4. A fire raged for two days at Liban and destroyed a large portion of the town. The damage is estimated at half a million. Madrid, August 4. The Government failed to complete the purchase of the warships in Genoa, and is now negotiating with the Clyde shipbuilders for the construction of vessels. Lisbon, August 4. Owing to a strike of employees at the gas works the town lias been in almost total darkness for two nights. Cairo, August 4. Heavy rain has fallen at Coshek, the first for 9 years, and the wells are tilled. Steamers have succeeded in passing the second cataract. The Dervishes are fortifying Kermain above the third cataract.