ENGLISH and FOREIGN.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 10, Issue 46, 16 June 1899, Page 2

ENGLISH and FOREIGN.

GREAT FIRE AT ELSWICK. , London, June 13. Three workshops at Baron Armstrong’s Elswick works have been destroyed by fire, and ranch costly machinery burnt. The damage is estimated at £200,000. The fire has thrown 2,000 hands out of employment. THE PHILIPPINES. Manila, June 13. The American forces operating in the north capital have occupied Las Pinas and Paranagne. 30 Americans were wounded. AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Pekin, June 13. Britain is insisting on the removal of the ; Chinese Governor at Kwichan for not arresting the instigator of the murder of Missionary Fleming. St. Petersburg, June 14. The Novoe Vremya warns Germany that her railway schemes in Asia Minor, especially in Mesopotamia, are menacing Russian interests to a serious degree. THE DREYFUS CASE. Paris, June 14, The re-trial of Dreyfus at Rennes will differ from the 1894 trial in that the courtmartial will include artillery officers in the branch of the army to which Dreyfus belongs. The preliminary enquiry will last six weeks. PROJECTED TUNNEL. London, June 13, Lords Londonderry, Rosebery, Spencer, and Wolseley support the project to construct a tunnel connecting Britain and Ireland, at a cost of ten millions sterling. It is intended to ask the Treasury to provide the necessary money. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS. New York, June 13. Heavy floods are now reported in the San Saba river, in Texas. At Manarddlle, a town on the river, twenty persons have been drowned. A cloud burst at Austin, Texas, and killed twenty-five persons. Madrid, June 13. A storm at San Pedro, in Valladolid, ha-* destroyed ifio booses, killing tea persons^

MINING CASUALTY. Capetown, June 13. A serious explosion of dynamite has occurred in one of the diamond mines at Kimberley, in this Colony. Seventeen natives and three European miners lost their lives. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. London, June 14. The British imports for the month of May showed an increase of £3,17b,000, and the exports an increase of £5, 139,000, as compared with the previous May. Newlybuilt ships represented £1,975,000 of the exports.