CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 102, 5 March 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

: ■ . ; '• . ; j [By Electric Telewaph. — Copyright ] TbUVJEU's TELEGBAMSI '•-._,. \ ' Constantikoplb, March £. I According to the latest accounts from Silistria and Bustchnck, the authority of the Bulgarian regents is now completely restored in those towns. Telegrams are to hand from Sofia Announcing; that Karareloff, formerly one of the regents, with three others, has been arrested in that city. London, March 3. ; j News has arrived from the west coast of Africa that Johnston. British Consul at the Cameroons has been kidnapped by a ,body of native savages; ' MrJ. W. Meldrum. the new manager of the Bank of Australia, sails by the Orizaba. . ' • .; j It is now stated that the casualties bY j the earthquake have been exaggerated, j I especially in Genoa.. : . - ; 1 Except in Berlin, the second ballots of ! the disputed elections are favouring the Government. The London press complains that tb,» obstruction offered to the progress of business in Parliament by the Parnellite party is a public scandal, and urges Goteminent to suppress them. : J j China has reinforced her troops in Kashgar. Sir James Maitland and Sir Francis Dillon Bell have despatched' to«day, per Doric, 350,000 salmon ova for JS«w Zealand; This |is the largest consign* jßent which has yet been sent to Austra* lasia. A farther supply Will be sent in a fortnight. ' • In the House of Commons last night a stormy debate took place on a credit vote for ;the flrjsh police- ; ; Mr ) Jobß Dillon defied tHe government j|tp guppr*ss the Ndiionaliat mietinfeß in Ireland; and <iea 'dared that the Executive -would ba re« 'sponsi'ble iifor the bloodshed 1 whitfh njighi ensUe. : o:xii:U^ •• ■• .•: ; JJi ..ff.-.r^.Mi-i-.f^r.-. . j Messrs Tyser and Co. have contracted ■to ruii' a- monthly cargo' steamer, : fitted : with Hall's rcf rißerator, between ' London and New Zealand. "■'■'[' : ; " , , JRIO de Janeibo, March 2. ' .' Arrived— Coptic, bound for Plymouth; Her,cargoof froaen mutton is in good condition. ;■■..,./■ I ;■.:«•■ : . ; .-■:'- : \ / : V i . ; STABHIKOTPN, March 3. The United States Congress have S'assed a bill for -the purpose of obtaining rastic reprisals- for the treatment of American: 1 fishing vessels in Canadian 'waters. " •■'■",•■■'. ■ • ■ ■:■" ! Bkbiin, March 3. ; ' The newly »elected Beicbstag was formally opened toaday. In his speech on the occasion, the Emperor stated that .the policy of the Government would be coatinually directed towards upholding pjeace with all the Powers, but especially with the immediate neighbours of Germany, and peace would be best provided by the Reichstag expressing the Nat* loual will regarding the bill to increase the army. ' ■