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Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4171, 22 June 1885, Page 3

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THE ENGLISH CABINET. FEAEFUL COLLIEEY EXPLOSION. TWENTY-TWO KILLED. 140 MOEE ENTOMBED. (Eeceived June 22, at 2-30 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. Tenders for the Western Australian loan of £500,000 were opened to-day. The total amount applied for was £457,500, the average/being £9§Jss 6d. The unallotted balance "will b#'placed at the niiniinum price of £97U03. ' '& °"aA . June" 20. It is announced that Sir Stafford Northcotw takes thfe position.- of First Lord of the Treasury, and not Lord Salisbury, as previously telegraphed. The Premiership, however; ikill hot as usual be combined with this office, but will be assumed by the Marquis of Salisbury. Sir Stafford Northcote goes to the Upper House under the title of the Earl of Iddleslegh (?). The request made by Lord" Salisbury that the Liberal party should give him an assurance of support to carry on the business of the country, has not been acceded to. Parliament' reassembled yesterday. The late Ministry have not yet vacated the Treasure benches, and the position of the Liberal and Conservative members respectively in the House is unchanged at present. A disastrous explosion of fire-damp took place in a colliery at Pendlebury, near Manchester. Twenty-two men were killed at once, and 140 more are now entombed without the slightest chance of rescue. News from Port Said states that a hitch has occurred in the works for the removal of the obstruction in the Suez Canal, which threatens to seriously dalay the re opening of the channels blocked. A number of vessels are waiting to pass the Canal homewards or outwards.