CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 35, 16 October 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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London", Octohor 11

Sir Pnincis Dillon 801 l is in treaty with the Ca!'iadiuii>Pacific Company in reference to a mail service to iNev Zealand. The Company lin/e expressed their willingness to deliver mails in Bris bane under 35 flays from London, and to establish brandies at Fiji and Auuklaud for a moderate subsidy.

A petition' signed by nearly the whole of the dissenting ministers in Ireland, haa been forwarded to the Marquis of Salisbury praying that the union with England shou.d be maintained.

Lord Rusebery, speaking at Leeds, said that if Mr Gladstone obtained a majority in the House of Commons in favour of Home Rule, he would stop the present coercion policy of the Government, and establish, if possible, a legislative body to deal with Irish affairs, distinct from Imperial affairs.

Mr Timothy Harrington, M. P. for Dublin Harbour, has received notice from the Parnell Commission to produce the books and letters of the National Land League.

It is expeckd that the provisions of the new mail contract will include twopenny postcards between England and Australia, to commence in January. The postage on newspapers will remain unaltered, and postcards via Brindisi will be fixed at three pence, New Toek. October 11. A collision occurred between two ex* cursion trains on the Lehigh Valley Railway, Pennsylvania, resulting in 60 persons being killed and 100 injured. Many of the carriages were telescoped. News has been received here of a serious accident which occurred at Quincey, a town in Illinois. A stand, containing 5000 people, collapsed, and 150 persons were injured, but fortunately no deaths resulted. Rome, Octobet 11. The Emperor William of Germany was welcomed by crowds at all the rail way stations from "Vienna to Rome, and the greetings on his nrnval in this city were of a most cordial description. Beblin, October 14. Doctors Be-ghmann and (jebhert will enter an action for libel against Sir Ylorell Mackenzie for the statements recemly published by him in regard to the late Emperor of Germany. St. Pktebsbubg October 11. The attitude of the Emperor William at the reception in Vienna is causing a marked re- action throughout Russia against Germany.