CABLE NEWS.
HOME AND FOREIGN.
COLLAPSE OF 4 BUILDING. New York, August 10. An eight storey building being erected in West Broadway, collapsed, and eighty workmen engaged upon it fell to the basement, eighteen being killed. The cause was the piling up of material near the lift on each floor.
IN COLLISION WITH AN UNKNOWN New York, August 10. Seventeen men from the ship Prince Oscar have landed at Philadelphia. Their ship came into collision with a vessel unknown, and both sank. Forty in all were drowned.
AUSTRALIAN SMELTING COMPANY London, August 10-
The quarter-million of capital issued by the Australian Smelting Company was over subscribed.
It is intended to erect works at Illawarra immediately. The machinery will bo capable of treating two hundred thousand tons of sulphides annually. Contracts are out for it, and a portion will be shipped on Friday.
A SPLENDID RECORD London, August 10. Grace has already scored two thousand runs this season in first class matches.
THE PACIFIC GABLE
Vancouver, August 10.
It is reported that Mr J. W. Mackay, Director of the Canadian Pacific Eailvyay Company, and a number of Ban Francisco capitalists, have agreed to co operate to lay the Pacific cable.
FORGERY IN HIGH LIFE.
London, August 10.
Lady Francos Canning has been committed for trial on a charge of forging her father’s name to bills of exchange. She admitted the offeiu e.
A REMARKABLE SLANDER ACTION, . London, August 9.
A remarkable action for slander is being heard, which is causing a groat stir in society. Mrs Jacomby, a member of the Badminton Hunt, charges Dowager, Lady Cow.Jey with accusing her of writing and circulating obscene letters. Plaintiff asserts that Lady Cowley herself wrote them.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 96, 12 August 1895, Page 3
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283CABLE NEWS. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 96, 12 August 1895, Page 3
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