GENERAL CABLE.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 145, 4 December 1895, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE.

HOME, FOREIGN & AUSTRALIAN JABEZBALFOURLondon, Dec. 2. Jabez Balfour will be tried at Old Bailey on December 9th cn a charge of evading his creditors. AFRICAN EXPLORATION. London, Dec. 2. Smith, African explorer, has discovered fifteen tribes of Pigmies north of Lakes Rudolph and Stiganio in the country between Abyssinia and British East Africa. THE FIGHTING AT GOA. Calcutta, Dec. The, revolt of the Portuguese soldiers at Goa has been suppressed. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ELECTION. London. Dec. 2. Great uproar has been caused in Dublin University by the nomination of Mr Wright and Dr Lecky, the historian, to contest the vacancy caused in the representation of the University in the House of Commons by Mr Plunkett’s elevation to the Peerage. Dr Lecky is being roughly handled on account of his religious opinions. THE CUBAN WAR. New York, Dec. 2. News has been received that the Cuban insurgents wrecked a second train by means of an infernal machine. The officials were killed, and a number of the passengers injured. DISASTROUS MINING ACCIDENT. New York, Dec. 2. A mine caved in at Carmel, New York State, and 13 miners were Killed. CHARGES OF FRAUD AGAINST PUBLIC MEN. Mabriu, Doc. 2. Fifteen members of the Municipal Corporation have been indictei on n charge of defrauding the public. An attempt was made to murder the Marquis Gabrinaute, who originated the exposure. TWO ENGLISH MISSIONARIES MURDERED. Zanzibar, Dec. 2. Nows has been received >bat the Hovas in Madagascar have murdered two English missionaries.