CABLE NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 187, 3 December 1896, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(/'<•/• .-I. —' '"l>!/ri<ffit.) London-, DOC. 2. Sir Matthew White Ridley, Secretin'}- of State for the llouio Department, has informed the governor of the gaol that Dr. Jameson is to be relea>ed immediately. The doctors advise that he is in a lit stale to be moved from the prison infirmary. The Medical Journal says that Dr. Jameson is in a nervous condition, and his recovery will be slow. Mr llooley lias presented St. Paul's with a gold Communion service as a thanksgiving for the Queen's record reign. The service is the costliest in the world. Wry cold weather is being experienced, and several deaths occurred in London from this cause. The commander of the warship A let* to, on the West African station, was fined 1000 dollars by a Liberian Court for hostility towards British vessels. The tine was only paid after a threat by the Customs officials to sei/.e the vis-el in satisfaction of the line. CoNSTANTIN'OIM.E, DeC. 2. The Porte has agreed to the tentative employment of foreign officers in the Cretan military service. Isi:i:sski.s, Dec. 2. The Mayor and Aldermen of Brussels have resigned owing to the City Council having adopted a minimum wage of three francs. Rumk. Dec. 2. The Maripns de Rudini stated in the Chamber of Deputies that political and military necessity demanded the retention of Kassala but Krythrea would present a permanent danger if maintained, as they must transform the military into a civil Government to ma lie it a commercial colony. It was impossible to keep within the Massowah - Keren - Annara triangle. The Government was at present unable to solve the problem of frontier defences, and de<iivd the views of Parliai nent on the subject. SvbNKY, Dec. 2. T he Newcastle police have obtained almost certain proof that Duller sailed from Newcastle by the Swan Hilda for San Fraiieisco under the name of Lee Weller. He obtained a license from Captain F.die, shipping master in Sydnev. The vessel sailed on the 2:>nl of November, and \\ eller came aboard the same morning. "When his baggage was beii.g hoisted aboard it slipped into the sea, and the man was in a great state of mind until a very weighty package was recovered. A search party at Glenbrook found no traces of the missing bodies of the men but came across a locket belonging to Lee Weller. A shocking mining accident happened at Gundagai. A man named Wilson was crushed to death by a fall of earth. His mate Webb was caught ill the debris, and great efforts were made to extricate him, but the mullock and water gradually rose and drowned the unfortunate man in the presence of his helpless comrades. Two miners named Curran and Smith have been found dead in the Stockton mine at Newcastle. They are supposed to have been suffocated by " white damp." The Government Inspector fears that there must be a fire in the old workings or that lire is generating, and has closed the mine until a careful inspection has been made. MIXIiOCF.NE, Dec. 2. Following up a suggestion made by Lord Brassey some time ago the Steamship Owners' Association is considering a scheme for training able seamen for the local mercantile marine. The scheme has not matured yet, but t eo.itemplat s the reception of two youths on board each of the intercolonial steamers, to be under the direct control of the captain and officers and not to be put to menial work. They are to be received for one year, and as there are f>o steamers in the intercolonial trade it is thought that a superior class of seamen will thus be trained and the status of the craft raised, besides which the foreign element now so prominent might be eliminated. Bmshaxe, Dec. 2. As one of the many samples of the disastrous results of the drought it is recorded that the stock list of a Bulloo district station has been reduced from ■IO,OOO to 1 o ,000.