CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1539, 20 November 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

" , ' ReWeb's Telegrams, by eleotrio telegraph,-copyriciht, [PER TE ANAtf AT THE BLUFF,] LONDON, November 8. An explosion of fire damp at Monkfield collieies, Accrington, Lancashire, resulted in the death of 60 miners. The correspondent of the Standard had an interview with M, Ferry on the 7th. when the latter asserted that in reference to the New Hebrides Prance was determined to maintain the neutrality of those Islands in accordance with the understanding arrived at with England some timo back. PARIS, November 18, Received November 20, 0.50 ; a,m,~ In the course of an interview which was granted to-day by the Marquis Tseng to a newspaper correspondent, the latter elicited from the Chinese Ambassador a statement to the effect that an attack upon Bac Ninh by the French troops in Tonquin would be considered by the Chinese Government as a casus belli, BELGRADE, November 18, . A large number of prisoners, captured by the troops during the recent rising at Scernareka and Kruchevatz, are now being tried for participation in Ue revolutionary movement. judgments which have been upon those who have been..found guilty arc remarkablo for their rigorous severity.