The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-03-26 00:00:00

THE TERRIBLE COLLIERY

EXPLOSION.

EIGHTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.

SYDNEY, Thursday.

The latest particulars concerning the ex-
plosion at the Bali Colliery show that the
disaster is even greater than was at firt sup-
posed; the number of miners entombed being
eighty-five, seventeen of whom are boys.
Sixty-five of the men are married. The
wirk of recovering the bodies is being pro-
c3eded with.

FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

PARIS, Thursday.

The Journal of Debats this morning giv-es a
formal denial to the report that Russia has
been making overtures for an alliance with
France.

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

VIENNA, Thursday.

A letter from Berlin published in the Po/i-
-ache Correspondenz represents that it is
imperatively necessary in the interests of
peace that France should receive timely in-
timation that any interference on her part
in the measures contemplated by the Ger-
man Government in Alsace-Lorraine would
be met with a strong protest from Berlin.
The same letter declards that the importance
of M. de Lesseps's recent visit to Berlin has
been greatly exaggerated, and that the
pacific assurances given by him on the oc-
casion were regarded there merely as the
expression of his own sincere convictions.

THE INDIAN BUDGET.

CALCUTTA, Thursday.

There is no foundation for the appreften-
sions that have been expressed of a deficit in
this year's Indian Budget. On the contrary,
the accounts for the present and the Esti-
mates for next year show an equilibrium be-
tween receipts and expenditure.

THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.
NEW YORK, Wednesday.

Mr. Sandford Fleming, one of the Cana-
dian representatives at the forthcoming
Colonial Conference, while on his way here
to embark for England has been delayed by
a snow-storm at Albany, New York State,
and has consequently missed his passage.
Sir Alexander Campbell, the other Canadian
representative, sailed to-day.

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