CABLEGRAMS. 800 MINERS ENTOMBED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 283, 21 July 1888, Page 5

CABLE G RAMS. 800 MINERS ENTOMBED.

Capetown, July 12. A fire at the entrance of the Great De Beet 1 mine, Kimberley, has entombed 300 miners and it is feared thau 500 have perished.

London, July 12. Sara Bern hard t, the great tragedienne, states that she will visib Australia in 1889.

London, July 11. Mr S. Romilly has been appointed British Con&ul a,l the New Hebrides.

I London, July 11. A British cruiser at Newfoundland has seized two French fishing vessels for purloining bait. Tho London School Board have appointed I a committee to inquire into certain grave charges of corruption that have been made.

Paris, July 12. General Boulanger has resigned his seat owing to the defeat of his motion for dissolution.

London, July 12. Russia has accepted the Sugar Bountie 8 Convention.

London, July 12. Sir Graham Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, has decided nob to float the Melbourne Harbour Board Loan of £25,000 before October.

London, July 12. Canon Harrison has been elected Bishop of Glasgow. A minority supported Bishop Sandford of Ta&mania.

London, July 12th. Jfc is reported thafc the Marquis of Norman by will be appointed Governor of South Australia.

Cape Towk, July 12. Dinizulu the Zulu chief's forces have shrunk to 1,500.

Berlin, July 12. The (-Jeraian police have compelled Natalie, the ex-Queen of Servia, to surrender her son to the Servian War Minister. Natalie has been expelled.

LoisDoy, July 12. The Duke of Argyle's motion in the Hous of Lords that the Government) policy in Ireland deserved support, has been carried without discussion.

Londox, July 7. In the House of Commons, to-day, Mr Parnell declared that the letters produced at the trial of the libel action against the "Times," and purporting to be signed by him, were forgeries. The press expresses the opjnion that his denial is valueless, and challenges him to disprove them. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Parnell applied for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the authenticity of the letters produced at the recent trial. Mr "W. H. Smith refused to grant the request, stating that Parliament was incompetent to deal with such charges while the Courts were available. Mr Parnell thereupon gave notice to move that a committee be appointed. The solicitor who appeared in Court on behalf of Mr O'Donnell declares that every step taken in the recent actions against the " Times " was first submitted to Mr Painell. The "Pall Mall Gazette," referring to the disclosures in the " Times" libel action, challenges the Government to move for Mr Pamell's expulsion from the House of Commons. Mr Davitt, speaking at Glasgow, challenged his opponents to pro&ecute him and Mi Parnell ou charges of murder and conspiracy, as the only course to properly sift the charges levied against them. He admitted that the subordinate leaders of tho League had committed grave crimes, but denied that Mr Parnell or his followers* were guilty. Ho regretted the crimed which had been committed, and said they were the work of a desperate body of me n.

London, July 12. The Hon. W. H. Smith has offered to nominate a commission, mainly composed of judge&,j udge&, to hear the charges of the " Times ' against Mr Parnell. JiParnell is likely to claim an inquir limited to 1 the authenticity of the letter, but the "Times" insists that the whole of the charges shall be included.

Londox, July 10. Captain Rhodes, of Capetown, has given £60,000 to the Parnellite funds on learning that Parnell favoured retention of Iribh representation in the British Parliament.

.LONDON, July 9. During the debate in the House of Commons to-day on the motion for payment of members, Admiral Field, M.P. tor Eastbourne, stated that a very able man, and one of great wealth, residing in Victoria, had told him that any number of men could be bribed in the Victorian Assembly. The House of Commons has, by a majoricy of 57, rejected the motion proposed by Mr Charles Fen wick, M.P. for Wansbeck, providing for the payment of members of die House. In &peakinsj on the motion, Mr Gladstone advocated the paying of labour members.

Loxdon-, July 9, Sir F. Dillon Bell is trying to engage Professor Long, of Cirence&ter, to proceed to jSTew Zealand to report on dairy factories in that colony.

Sydney, July 18. An intercolonial conference of delegates from the various Seamen's Union has commenced its sittings, but the proceedings are not open to the press. The Chine&e question and the seamen's difficulty in New Zealand are being discussed.

Melbourne, July 18. A man named John Audley has been arrested charged with attempting to murder August Heifer, a publican.

Berlin, July 8. The meeting between the Emperor William and the C/,ar of Russia will take plaea on board of the Czar's royal yacht Dergaon, in the Gulf of Finland, and aferwurds they will proceed to Pofcerhoff. Count Herbert Bismarck and M. de Giers will accompany the Royal personages. The Emperor embarks at Kiel on the 14th instant in the Royal yacht Hohenzollern, and he will be escorted by four ironclads. The Czar, in his yacht, will be escorted by two ironclads. Their Majesties will meet off Cronstadt.

Beultit, July 9. Dr. Morell McKenzie thinks that the abscess in the ear from which the Emperor William suffers will aflecb his brain.

Loxnoa", July 9. With five days' notice thirty-eight tnen-oE-wav assembled at Spithead and thirtyone off Portland ready for active service. Admirals Baird and Rowley were in command. A stronger squadron will endeavour to blockade a fleet under Admiral Tyron and Captain Fitzroy, after the conclusion of the celebrations in connection, with the tevcentary of the Spanish Avmade». on the 19th instant. ' '