CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 9831, 21 October 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

A Sydney message states that the steamer Indiana, outward bound, collided with the American ship Alameda, from Puget Sound. The latter was cut down to the water’s edge, and was only saved from sinking by her cargo of timber. The steamer had her stern wrecked, and has returned for repairs. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Scarborough, said that the Liberals would oppose, without the possibility of a compromise, any attempt to disturb the settlement of the education question. Liberalism, he declared, was never more alive and never more needed. They alone were able to fight revolutionary theories, and had with them the moral forces making for freedom. The party had majorities in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.

Mr Chamberlain has ordered Maxim guns to defend the frontier of British Guiana, where it is expected the Venezuelan forces may attempt to cross. The colonial authorities decline to vote the expense. General Duchesne and garrison have arrived at Antananarivo. The black troops and Hovas are returning to their villages. The behaviour of the French troops is said to have been exemplary. Fifty persons were drowned by a collision on the Nile between a steamer and a ferry boat.

, Mr Edward Coombes, C.M.G., member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, is dead.

The week closed in Sydney with a weaker feeling both in gold and silver shares. The market is flat and irregular. * The brigantine Sarah Pile haa been towed into the Mary Elver (Queensland). The disaster was caused through the vessel becoming waterlogged and unmanageable. The captain’s wife bad a narrow escape from drowning, and was only saved by the pluck and devotion of a kanaka seaman.