HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 176, 28 January 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

A DISASTROUS FIRE. t A LIFEBOAT CAPSIZED. J (Per Press Association.) d London, January 26. I Captain George Pollard has been ap- d pointed to the command of H.M.S. " Wallaroo. d The residence of the Countess Da La a Warr was destroyed by fire. The Count- c ess made a rope out of blanKets and c lowered herself into the street. The Royal Geographical Society and I other institutions interested are raising t fifty thousand pounds to conduct a three 1 years expedition to the Antarctic regions 1 to start in June next. One society has j subscribed two thousand pounds. Mr I Goschen, first Lord of the Admiralty, is | helping the movement in the direction i of manning and equipment, but is unable to spare a ship. The House of Commons has adopted the address in reply. A collision occurred eff Dungeness between H.M.S. Blenhetn and the French five masted steel ship France and a serious disaster was narrowly averted. The Blenheim bad to bo docked for repairs. Copenhagen, Jan. 26. A lifeboat capsized off Jutland and 12 pereons were drowned. Paris, January 26. The French Government will oppose the action of China in opening up West River which favors British interests, unless France is allowed to construct railways from Tongking into the provinces of Kwantung and Kwangsi. Washington, January 27. A fire at Philadelphia destroyed 30 buildings. The damage is estimated at over two million dollars.