CABLE NEWS.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 211, 19 December 1896, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, December 17.—An earthquake shock was felt .'it Stroud anil Ledbury yesterday. Houses rocked io and fro and tho inhabitants ran into the streets. Hereford Cathedral suffered some damage. One woman was so terrified that she died from the shock. At five o'clock this morning further shocks were felt extending from Cardigan to the Thames Valley. In Chester and Lancashire they were severe but no serious accident occurred. Four thousand navvies are employed on the' Panama Canal.' The fire at Cecil Rhodes' residence was the result of incendiarism. His Zimbaloze relics were destroyed. Lord Salisbury lias informed Thomas Mann that his expulsion from Hamburg was quite legal. PaiuS, December 17.—France rtnd Russia are disputing over the Turkish financial reforms. The Chamber of Deputies approved of the terms of the treat v. Pbetohia, December 17.—Five thousand Poors asseYnbled at Take to celebrate tho anniversary of the great defeat of the ZuluS under Dingaan. President Krugrr said that the Government would be true to Burghers and would entertain goodwill to the British. " God gave the Boers liberty." Berlin, December 17. Seventeen persons have been killed by an explosion in a match factory in Bavaria: Constantinople, December 17. —The Porte declares that to grant an amnesty to 0000 Armenian prisoners would provoke a Musselman rising. t Sydney, Pi'ceinbcr 18.—The body found nen'r Bourke has been identified rrs that of Edward Smith. A man named Moore has been arrested with a quantity ftf Smith's belongings in his possession. At the inquest a verdict of wilful murder a'gainst Moore was returned.