CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 85, 5 January 1888, Page 2

C ABLE NEWS.

— . — _* By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PER UNITED PEEBS ASSOCIATION.] London, January 2. The British revenue' for the quarter shews a decrease of £430,000. ! Mr Parnell has recovered from his recent illness, and will at once resume the active leadership of the Irish National party. ; Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, who is ' at present at Borne, is endeavoring to neutralise the mission of the Duke of Norfolk as far as it concerns Irish affairs. Several papers state that Mr Gladstone intends to visit Borne for a similar purpose. The unemployed distress is very acute. Numerous cases of persons suffering from starvation are met withi n the streets daily. Poorhouse relief is refused, the men demanding work and declining to submit to being treated as paupers. Many families are subsisting on gutterrefuse. .".".' Florence, Jannary 2. Mr Gladstone arrived in this city today from Pans, and met with a great ovation at the railway station, an enormous crowd demonstrating respect. He was afterwards deputatiomsed at his hotel by the English residents of the city, and addressed the crowd from the balcony in the Italian language. Kingston (Jamaica), January 2. A gale, unprecedented in violence, swept through the West Indies yesterday, causing immense damage to property and shipping. A schooner was capsized, and thirteen persons drowned. Houses were denuded of their roofs, and trees levelled to the ground. Paris, January 3. The leading jouanals admit that Russia has massed a quarter of a million infantry, 25,000 cavalry, and 800 guns, on the Austrian frontier. St. Petersburg, January 2. The despatches on Bulgarian affairs, alleged to be fictitious, have been published by consent of the Ozar. Berlin, January 2. The German Imperial Gazette, commenting on the alleged spurious despatches, asserts that they were invented for the purpose of producing an impression that Prince Bismarck was acting in a double-faced manner. / Vienna, January 2. The peaceful assurances expressed by Prince Lobanoff, the Bussian Ambassador, to the Austrian Government, have ' not had a convincing effect.