CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 30, 21 August 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■; By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright ' I PEU UNITED PKESB ASSOCIATION. } London. August 16 Mr Tyser, of Tyserand Co., baa joined the Board of Directors of the Shipping Ring and will undertake the management of the New Zealand shipping Shares are now bping allotted in the Champion Gold and Silvermining Company. The plenipotentiaries at the Sugar Bounties Conference, after a prolonged sitting, hare adjourned until the 27th instant, and in the meantime the ques- , tions raised will be referred to the respective Governments. An Australian wheat cargo of August shipment has been sold at 37s 3d. A desperate resistance tras offered to the evictions at New Boss, Wexford. , The tenants erected earthworks and dug , trenches round their houses, and offered every resistance to the authorities. The ' emergency men, who were assisted by | the police with fired bnyoncts, were re- [ peatedly repulsed. Eventually the bonse l took fire, and the defenders were compelled to emerge, when 12 arrests" were i made. < > The weekly returns of the Bank of ) England, published tp»day, -show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be L 11.011,000, and the proportion of renerve to liabilities 40 per cent. | ..."■■ \Aagußtl7. * The Emperor William, in unveiling f the statue of Fre lerick Charles of GerJ many, said thai tiigtiteen army corps and forty-one millions of people would prefer to die in battle rather than surrender Alsace. } Sir Morell McKenzie's book refuting * the charges brought against him by his 1 enemies of Germany, will be published - simultaneously in England and Germany within a month. The general impression l in medical circles is that but for Dr McKenzie's timely intervention Frederick would never hare ascended the throne. Mr Gladstone has invited the leading * members of the Irish party to dinner. New Yobk, August 17. An epidemic of yellow fever ia raging in Florida. The population has beei 5 decimated by its ravages, tbe Indian: J particularly dying in large numbers. The Convent of the Sacred Heart \x 1 this city has been destroyed by fire 2 There were no casualties, but the destruction of the buildings, which were verj mnssive, has occasioned great loss. Sikkim, August 16. s Further reinforcements of Britisl troops have been ordered here. Calcutta, August 16 It is considered that an attack by th< - Thibetans on the British position a >- Gnatong is imminent. V 2> Pabis, Augusf-1&. i- Two French ladie* had a quarre ,t owing to jealously, and fought a due a with pistol s . Both were severely wounded