London.

Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1892, Page 2

London.

eil has -been 'Cbmmitted f6r trial on the change .of poisoning a number of w6iiie{nin parts of London.

Two Russian immigrants at Glasgow ■were seized with cholera. Extraordinary precaution* are being' -taken . ittil/ondon . . .• ., 37w0) sailors, at ■ Grimaby .'■ and , one at Midlesbovough, who had arrived in vessels from Hamburg, were attacked by cholera, and the latter died.-.,,;*" t.. !»:..;; ■■■■■'■■ '• (? /I • ) T\h& .jiwefii : „. states .... thai); Lov&j Glasgow'a position) a-e 1 the Legislative Council' appdin'tmfents ; in • Ne\V'" Zealand demahas th^ar^ui^bf Bipon's twiaple, (Jisprejii^q^asa.' wrong decision would have disastrous T«sulfcs. • ' „...,. By an explosion in Park Sip Colliery at Bridgend, Wales, o^e: hundred a|}d. forty, have beieri eptQmU^/,^ „. ,,.! .;! . ;.m i \-si: • : ' v Forty men hay« been rescued from the Park Slip Colliery at Bridgend. The mine is full of ,after-damn, and pai j fcy 'slibwed great;; heroism in their,- jy,qrk. The woi'k of rescue at Park Slip Coliiiryiwlis l dfllvW(id' ( on r in a 9eene.cjf the greatest excitement. , . ; I ' "The galtarii men who went dowp into tbe. mine;tO!save : their combrades had to creep flat along the ground, to prevent the-gas suffocating them." Stumbling .over , the, bodies, and 'taking 1 refuge"' 'from 'time to time behind tho,,. pillars supporting the roof, they, by slowdegrees, at length -re|ch,e'd3he ajpolbjw^ia i the. suuvivorg were entombed.

The wfl§§st^rwas shown on the bank as the rescued men were hauled to the top, women and children frantically embracing one andthel*. •■;' v ' "'" ' >; ' '•'.' ' .'.-.: '

, K ifnofctings were heard in the>dis-iapt^orkings^and-the. efforts of the i-esaue n^avty-W-ere renewed avnid crowds of shrieking women calling upon them to" save those still entoSW'i t v!- !; -'---'-'- f: '-' r) V- '<• One of the survivors who was interviewed says he lapped up dirty 5 water from a puddle_^o .prevent being 1 The Queen has" se tit a message ; of sympathy and condolence. The rescue parties at^ the Park ' Slip ! Oallidry'- Have ftbandbhW the work, finding, it impossible to recover any more bodies 1 ;' 107 have been ,tftkeg Qufeoi^e; mina,.:--/^ ;!/-. : A relief fund is being opened at the Mansion-House. „;, Mr Asquith, Home Secreta^, is 'Visiting the'se'ene.' '' , A-reqeiving order, haß.been ; made agajn^Redfern ; Ai^xand^r cqioni?Ll merchants^ (areat Wjnohes- ' tej.'.'sjErieet. r, ,Theiv liabilities, ; amojant j to a quarter of' a million sterling.: News from the Islands states tjwt a British protectorate has been proclaimed over the whole of the Ellice Group, and that a protectorate yrill b> eß|fcbltsh>t by' G&pt^it" Gibson, jo& H.M.Si-6ura9oa, who- was to leave Suva, on the 17th August lor ;th&i Group. \ J : i ( IJhB Russian lAiiibassaaoPih l^on - iidbaisf ih comm^nicatioa'with Lord !> Rbsefe el'y iregardingf ; the -. :Pamir dis- :.., £he Cfe^s?, Ambassador, iij M( Lon • dori is proceeding '#)',''ss gfifirftxiTg to demand an explanatiQn' of the Russian action^- <

Baron de Staat, Russian Ambas^aMofv'aßiuves" tfoiW- ; rtyselijßry : ''that Hhd 'Ms'siaW'aiavanoe'in -iHe 'JParairi fis Tih'ly iiadft-witli'. amioable f inten-!foniM-»-i s'"^-^' -r 1 :;" 1 '"-- i Heavy rains are • delaying the English harvest and causing mildew . The threshing repprfcs are unfavom'ji ?%$&#"& a ßi^L & n» coiJ'ditipn'ofiihe oxqp.hfn jimproved, but moul£ is still present. •