CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 103, 8 March 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— ♦ .. [By Electric Teletraph.—Copyright 3 FbEUTEB's TKLEOBAMH'i ! : Lonbon, March 6. ; English ' mnhHfnclurers are .an^ry .at New South ' Wales inriting tendern for engines abroad. Leading members of the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies are uqeasy-Wr-* kpecting tlie Coloninl Conference, and are anxious for unofficial communications with the A uatralian delegates It is reported that China has ceded the Group of Islands, of which Chusan is the principal, to Germany. - Prince Alexander of Battenburc who has been suffering from small pox, is now out of danger. Prince Bismarck has a majority in the new Reichstag of forty three. A new company, styled the Australasian United Steam Navigation Corny pany, has been registered with a capital of L6G0,000. A company has been for* mcd to work the Australian coasting trad*. - The board of directors include the chairman of the British India Company, the chairman of the Peninsula and Oriental Company, the chairman of the Union Steamship Company, and the chairman of -the Queensland Steamship Company. • ; During the incendiary raids made on tenants who had paid; their rents in the County Limerick, much property was destroyed. ';.'. „ ,; Sir Michael Hicks* Beach. Secretary of Ireland, has resigned that appointment He ig suffering from cataract. Mr Arthur Balfour, Secretary for Scotland, has :been appointed to succeed him. ; At a Imnquet at the National Conservative Club last night, the Marquis of Salisbury delivered a speech, in which he declared that the outlook in Europe had recently mttch improved, and in spite of the increased armaments which are being carried out ;by Continental Powers, the prospects of peace were greater than: had been the case for some time. The main difficulty with regard, to Ireland was the breakdown of the jury system, which it would be necessary to remedy or abolish. Obituary -r-Fai her Beckx. Superior of the Order of Jesuits ; setat 92. M. de Lessep'g mission to Berlin is a mystery : at present. It is thought he may possibly intend it a* a compliment to the Emperor William on his birthday. ; An International ■ ouference to consider the question of sugar bounties is i probable. . V•■ := ... . • .■■•■: . : -.--~- ■'■= j The Rev. H*nry Ward Boucher in in a critical state of health, the result of an apopletic stroke. '-'-y ■ \ It is anticipated that the Imperial Cobference will lead to a material reduction in the rates of colonial postage. ■ About 20 raids have bepn made in Limerick, by which ricks, outhouses, and other property to the value of L2OOO, have been destroyed. : : ; 'ftr Brussels, March 6. Adieastrous colliery explosion has occurred in this country. . 141 uoaers perished. . : i . , Romr, March 6The deadlock in the Italian Parliament has now come t« an -end, Dopretis and hi.s collenguek in the late Miuiulry haring resumed ot&ce. B anooq.v, March 6. The powerful Wb<»n Tsobw», chief of the Van country ban virtually rec»gnisfd the British supremacy in Burm.-»h,^nnd his pubiio sitbuiixHion is expected f» ? be wade without delay.