LATE GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 61, 30 October 1888, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.-— Copyright

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Lo don, O tober 22

Count Dayn succeeds Count Karotyi as Ambassador of Austria- Hungary in London.

It is understood Cardinal Moran will he created an Irish Archbishop at the first vacancy.

The Admiralty propose to build four new ironclads and six cruisers.

The coal owners in Yorkshire and Derbyshire resist the demands of the miners for an advance of wages. The South Wales collieries have conceded an advance of 10 per cent to the men.

£700,000 in gold from outside markets and Paris have been shipped to "Russia.

The beetroot manufacturers of Saxony have passed a resolution condemning the Sugar Bounties Convention.

The Lancashire miners having refused to arbitrate, the owners have yielded to their demands.

Mr Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is visiting Dublin, where he is protected by an unusually strong escort.

The mission of Mr H. M. Durand, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, to Afghanistan, has been abandoned.

Lords Brownlow and Pembroke are mentioned in connection with the suecesaioa to the Governorship of New South Wales.

£600,000 of the Bank of New Zealand's new capital has been subscribed. Calcittti, October 22.

The Ameer of Afghanistan is proceeding to the district of Tashkurgan.

Pabis, October 22

A heavy landslip on the NaplesBrindisi line of railway buried an excursion tram. Ninety passengers were killed, and fifty injured.

The Imperial German coat-of-arms, at the German Consulate at Havre, has been defaced, and considerable ill-feeling has been arroused in consequence of the act, M. Goblet, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has, however, apologised to the German Minister for the outrage.

The Government propose to introduce a Bill providing for an iiuome tax.

M. Freycinet, Minister of "War, has informed the Budget Committee that one milliard francs will be required for the defence of the eastern frontier.

Washington, October 21

Congress was prorogued to-day. A measure has been passed excluding all Chinese labourers from the States, whether merely intending to pass through the country or otherwise.