NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 112, 30 July 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN. BRITISH ELECTIONS. London, July 27. In the polling in the English counties the Liberals are being returned with increased majorities, varying from 1000 to 3000 in the mining and manufacturing districts. The capture of the Tories of four Scotch seats is owing to the fear of Disestablishment. An election riot broke out in Dunstable, and the Riot Act was read. The disturbance was only quelled on arrival of police reinforcements. The returns to date are : Tories-and Unionists ... 410 Liberals 175 Parnellites ... ... 12 Anti-Parnellites ... 69 Four returns are yet to come. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Paris, July 27. A train conveying French pilgrims to a shrine left the rails at St. Briene. Some of the carriages were telescoped almost to splinters. Twelve persons were killed outright and 50 seriously injured. PRODUCE DISTRIBUTING COY. London, July 27. The capital of the Colonial Produce Distribution Company is oversubscribed. £BBO,OOO was offered for £IOO,OOO 4£ per cent debentures and £185,000 for 6 per cent cumulative preference shares. Nelson Bros, reviewing the year's butter trade, state that the supplies for provinces were insufficient, though the quality highly esteemed. The new company, they say, intend to increase the supply and endeavor to secure a lasting foothold in Manchester and Liverpool, where a direct trade is necessary. They recommend shipments to Great Britain throughout the entire year on a larger scale, and declare that the average prices will amply compensate for any probable losses in May and June.

CANNIBALISM. Sydney, July 27. Letters from the Bismarck, Archipelago give particulars of another horrible massacre at the Islands. Tiie victims were a boat's crew of natives in the employ of a German trader of Nusa, New Ireland, Early in April, whilst away with the traders, the boat of natives were captured by bush tribes and butchered, some of the bodies being taken to the highlands for a cannibalistic feast. About the same time Captain Brune and the native crew of the schooner Suga had a narrow escape. The vessel was labor recruiting at New Hanover, and while the ooats were away the natives came off and made a determined effort to murder those left on board, and also to capture the vessel. They actually rushed the captain and men, but fortunately the former managed to secure his Winchester, with which he cleared the natives off, otherwise all must have been victims.

London, July 27. A syndicate is being formed for the purpose of investing a sum of £200,000 in mining property in Victoria. Ottawa, July 27. The Globe referring so the New South Wales election, says the resuH is one of the signs of a gereral recurrence to the rational fiscal views, and nothing more will be heard of the Imperial Customs Union. Bebun, July 27. By an explosion in Prinz Colliery, Bochum, Westphalia, twelve persons were killed and twelve others entombed. Melbourne, July 27. Many cattle are starving in Gippsland in consequence of continued snow falls. The weather is intensely cold. Foxes had become great pests in the Port Fairy district. They were so cunning that it was impossible to destroy them until a method was adopted of shooting birds, and, without touching with the hands, stuffed strychnine in their throats, and leaving them on the trail of dead sheep. Large number of foxes have since been found dead. Strenuous efforts are being made to reach the victims of the El Dorado accident. The boring rods, however, show that the sludge is still in a dangerous fluid state, though the pressure is not strong, but there is a possible danger, and if the water accumulates the relief party may require to flee for their lives at a moment's warning.