CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 15 December 1896, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The Abernant Colliery is flooded. One hundred and twenty men rushed to the outlets, and escaped, though they were up to their necks in water. Six others, however, are missing. The North Western Railway Company has offered to meet the men who were dismissed and consider their claims reasonably. England has refused Turkey's request to negotiate for a new commercial treaty. The St. James' Gazette says the War Office proposes to add eight new battalions of infantry and 18 field batteries of 72 guns to the British army. The Hon. C. T. Ritchie, President . of the Board of Trade, has arranged with the North Western Railway Company for the reinstatement of the Unionists who were dismissed, and the employees havo undertaken , not to go out on strike pending the negotiations which are being carried , on for an increase of wages and ; shorter hours. In Venezuela there are complaints 1 that the treaty with respect to the boundary dispute contains no proI vision of sovereignty, and an agitation is being raised in consequence. Mr Richard Olney, Secretary of i State for the United States, declines > to modify the terms of the treaty ' without British consent. Foreign. . Count Banffy, speaking in the ! Hungarian Diet, said Europe was ■ entirely at peace. He had no doubt 1 of Germany's loyalty to the Triple ' Alliance. A son of General Gomez, another I Cuban leader, has committed suicide, . and his body was found lying near 1 Maceo's. The Sultan protests against; President Cleveland's reference to the Armenian outrages in his message to Congress. i The Volksraad has been prorogued. • In his speech, President Eruger , expressed pacific intentions towards ; the whole of Europe. \ A large house collapsed in Jerez, near Cadiz, buryiny a hundred paople. Up to the present 11 bodies have been recovered. The Berliner Tageblatt gives ourrency to the rumour that ex--1 Sultan Murad, of Turkey, has 1 escaped. I His Holiness the Pope has given t audience to Archbishop Redwood, of 1 Wellington, New Zealand. 1 The Government admit the lO3S of 1 17,000 men in Cuba and the Philippine Islands. Fifteen hundred arrests have been i made in Moscow in order to prevent 1 the students commemorating the 1 KhoJinsky disaster. The Novosti newspaper considers that the entente cordiaU wijth Great Britain is largely desired by Russia.