LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1321, 9 November 1883, Page 2

LA TEST CABLEGRAMS.

.-. \ ■" r *~"~ '' . (PER REUTER'SAGBNUY.) ; i ... ;.... ' ' . .-Received Nov. 8. » t Lo don, 6 A most disastrous explosion oceur--1 red at Monkfield Collery, Accrington, ' near Blackburn, Lanoarshire. According to latest news to hand fully a ■ Hundred ineii were entombed in thfe s mine, and it is feared all have perished. ' Alkxndria, 7. Reports ,havp . reached here from »' Soudan that El Mahdi, the .False i Prophet, and leader of the rebellion in i Hordofan, is dead. 3 Amsterdam, 7. The, Executive Commissioners for 1 Netherlands have made a reeommen--1 dation to the Minister of Foreign • Affairs that decorations should be i conferred upon the representatives of y the Australian Colonies at the r cent i exhibition in this city. s Melbourne, 8 Sailed— Eingarooma, for Bluff j r Recei^edsNrfVeniber 8, 2-20 p.m. : $ \ I . Sydney, 8.Arrived— Wakatipn, from Welling-. * ton. • fc Brisbane, 8. j- The newly elected Parliament met yesterday, when Groom, Opposition candidate, was appointed Sp aker of f the. Legislative Assembly, by majority f 29 to 18. ; ' Roceive.d Nov, 8, 2.40 p.m. Melboirne, 7. The steamship Rodondo, which } went ashore on Lonsdale Reef ..on 3 Tuesday night, and subsequently 1 heached, 18 now full of water, and her i ; position is critical. Pa is, 7. Official despatches from Tonquin ani ueunce that Admiral Conrbe.t has del cided to postpone, until next mouth his r projected advance against Bac Muh; i telegrams are also to hand stating j that the Chinese are preparing to o^er ' a 7? desperate resistance to the French ' attack. ; s ' London, 7 — ' veniug. , Lateßt l'epoits from Accrmgton . state that the entombed miners in , 'Mopkjfie^ cqlliery, have, been rescued. ' I • •- 1 —