CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 42, 15 September 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright fPEIt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London. September 13. A man named _.ui_, who am veil. -as a steerage passenger from Sydney, fn the steamer Ormuz, was found dead along the Midland Ruilway line, and it is be* J he was thrown out of the railway carriage by a companion of his named Howdy, , who was a fellow-passenger from the t colony. Howdy has disappeared. Washington, September 12. President Cleveland, in his letter ac- x cepting the candidnture for the Presi- , dency, ignores the Fisheries Treaty, . Very heated debates have occurred during tbe progress of the Retaliation 1 Bill. One speaker . declared that the l United States cared nothing for the c British Navy, whilst another condemned ] the colonial and foreign policy of Eng- j land, whose interference lately in several j matters had brought her into unenviable , prominence. The speaker last referred to counselled the House to drai with tbe . Dominion of Canada and ignore Great Britain in arriving at a settlement of the l question. * Paris, September 12. ' General Boulanger leaves for Chris* -■* tiaha on the 12th inst. 1 In consequence of the falling off in the ( yield of wheat Frame will require to ( import 40,000,000 hectolitres of wheat. Pekin, September 10. It is regarded as certain that China . will reject any further parleying on the Chinese-American treaty. Innspbuck, September 12. Serious floods have occurred through- * out Tyrol and the whole of the northern < Italy. ] A French aeronaut claims that he has i solveo the problem of balloon navigation < and aserts that by his scheme he will be _ able to travel in a balloon in any direction - at the rate of sixty miles an hour. A ' public trial of his invention will be made shortly. Rangoon, September 12. News has been received that Col. Sir Gerald Graham wdl advance immedi* ately on the Thibetans, who hare strong ly fortified the Jelapla Pass. Caprtown, September 12. A fire broke in the bunkers of the steamer Pembroke Castle lying off shore. Teh coolies were suffocated before tbey couid be brought from below. Ottawa, September 12. Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canaba, will probably visit England at an early date with the object of urging upon Lord Salishury the desirableness of granting several millions to the Govrnment of the Dominion for the pur pose of constructing stratigic and com** I mercial railways which should be part J of the system of defence, I