NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 215, 25 September 1896, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

AMERICAN STRIKE. New York, September 22. Three thousand miners out on strike arrived with guns and dynamite and attacked those working in two silver mines in Leadville, in Colorado. Five were killed, and many were injured. Great damage was done to property.

THE DYNAMITE PLOT. Paris, September 22. The Procureur of Boulogne has received a letter written in blood, and signed “ Invincible,” threatening to dynamite that official unless he releases Tynan. Tynan has appealed to J. B. Eustis, the American Ambassador, to prevent his extradition and declares if he is successful he will receive the thanks of millions of Irishmen. Eustis has notified the Government that Tynan is an American subject. The majority of the French newspapers regard it as impossible that the man can be extradicted.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE. Adelaide, September 23. There was a shocking occurrence in the Cabinet this morning. While a discussion on the Pastoral Bill was proceeding, the Hon P. P. Gillen, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration, became suddenly ill, and dropped dead. He was to have spoken to-night in moving the sepond reading of the measure. Consequent on his death, Parliament has adjourned for a week.

A NEW COUNTRY; Adelaide, September 23. The explorer Mason, who recently conducted a party from Western Australia to Eucla, reports that during the journey he discovered between thirty and forty million acres of good pastoral and agricultural land, hitherto considered worthless. The new country is clothed in four or five different kinds of grass, with other herbage, and flowers are there in endless variety. The soil is chocolatecolored, and would he believed, grow almost anything. The country is of a light, undulating character, and fair rainfall was observable.

EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION. Cairo, September 22. The Queen has sent a message to the Sirdar, congratulating him on the success of the expedition. Casualties on the British side were 16. The Dervishes sent their women southward, and in the engagement lost the major portion of their ammunition. The Sirdar has offered the Dervishes pardon if they will surrender, but reports from Hafir state that Bishar has returned to Dongola, and intends to fight. Cairo, September 23. The gunboats bombarded Dongola, and caused the dismountiug of one gun. The troops are at Zowarat, five miles from Dongola, and fighting is expected immediately. Bishara Arabs are hastily raising earthworks.