Wire News

Kaikoura Star, Volume XII, Issue 22, 18 March 1892, Page 4

Wire News

LONDON, March 14 Colonial stocks are advancing. Many works stopped through want of coal.

Eighty thousand miners resumed work in Wales. Miners on strike asserting demand will be conceded by 28th.

Stoppage of coal Supply bevond a week will cause suspension of 50,800 potters.

Withdrawal by Griffiths of charge against Bank of England favorably received. Financial News expects that former relations with Queensland and Bank will be resumed. City men express doubts as to whether Griffith’s tardy apology will induce the Bank of England to resume friendly relations with Queensland. Bank officials are waiting arrival of documents. Financial News says Mcllwraith’s duty was to have ascertained all the facts before making any charge against the Bank of England, and declares that whole blame is due to him.

Quantity of dynamite discovered at Limerick. One arrest made.

Irish Nonconformists appeal to their brethren of England and Wales to defeat Gladstone’s proposals at the general elections.

ROME, March 14

Five hundred members of Republican Societies are holding Conference at Rome They declare Government incapable of solving burning questions of the day. Expected their attitude will bring them into serious conflict with Government.

PARIS, March 14

Houses of Anarchists in Paris searched. Two arrests made. Prisoners sui p >sed to be authors of recent theft of dynamite which is believed to have been sent to Russia.

Two officials of French War Office arrested on charge of being concerned in heavy frauds. Forty dynamite cartridges found in the house of an Anarchist in Paris. ST PETERSBURG, March 14 Passenger arrested on Russian frontier in whose possession was found some of dynamite stolen in France. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 14 Two armed mon captured in palace. 'P.’i ■feVeu ended to murder the BRUSSELS, March 14 Pit adjoining that ;n which the explosion at Charleroi took place is catching on fire. The disaster is of magnitude unexampled in Belgium. OTTAWA, March 14 Reported Canadian Government has cabled Salisbury to agree with modus vivendi, fearing reprisals on part of U. States. Government won fourteen seats since January. Result of elections regarded as protest against American tendencies of Liberals. Mercier returns to New York to avoid SYDNEY, March 15 Schey, Member for Redfern, is being sued for £lO,OOO by Proudfoots, contractors, for having,in debate, stated the Commissioners favored them in railway contracts. In consequence of reduction of the Immigration vote instructions cabled Home to stop immigration to this Colony. TIMARU, March 15 Water having got the upper hand in the Elginshire, machinery been stopped