AMERICAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1201, 8 March 1895, Page 36

AMERICAN.

Washington, February 28. The Senate recommends President Cleveland to co-operate with Great Britain in holding the Monetary Conference. Washington, March 1. The two branches of the Legislature will again confer with regard to the Hawaiian cable. By a fire in a mine at Cerillos, New Mexico, 25 men were killed and 65 entombed. It is feared the position of the latter is hopeless. Washington, March 4. The House of Representatives accepted the Senate’s amendment recommending President Cleveland to co-operate with Great Britain in promoting the Monetary Conference. Congress sat yesterday (Sunday), on account of the fact that to-day the session closed. Before the prorogation to-day, the President vainly tried to secure the passage of the measure dealing with English claims in regard to the Behring Sea. Washington, March 4. The Hawaiian cable project is finally killed. New York, March 1. News has been received that a train crowded with pilgrims proceeding to Lemamalia, Mexico, became derailed. One hundred or the passengers were killed and 85 injured. New York, March 4. From the debris of the railway accident in Mexico, caused by the derailing of a train, the bodies of 130 passengers have been recovered. Many others are still embedded. In numerous instances the bodies of those killed were dismembered of the heads and limbs. It is alleged that the driver of the engino was under the influence of liquor at the time, and that his not slackening speed at a curve caused the train to fall over a precipice. New York, March 3. During the trial of the case against the Marquis of Queensberry, arrested on a warrant on a charge of libelling Oscar Wilde, the counsel for Wilde stated that the Marquis had been persecuting the plaintiff for years, and had forwarded him a card containing indecent words.

New York, March 4. News has been received that the insurgents in Colombia, South America, feated the Government troops near the city of Cucuta, and followed up their victory by capturing the city. The G overnment troops lost 800 men in the engagement. [Cucuta is a large coffee centre in the Santander district, and one of the chief commercial towns of Colombia.] San Francisco, March 2. News from Honolulu states that the trial of the white leaders in the recent Royalist rising in Hawaii has finished. Thirty-five were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 30 to 20 years, besides being heavily fined, while 23 were fined and ordered to undergo five years’ imprisonment. San Francisco March 3. The chief sentences passed on those connected with the Hawaii rising are : Gulick and Seaward, each 35 years’ imprisonment. Richard Walker, an Englishman, and Pudge and Wiedeman, each 30 years’ imprisonment.