LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 79, 8 January 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

— . — + By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) San Josk, January 7. Severe shocks of earthquake hare been experienced throughout Costa Kica, and many persons have bean injured. Suakim, January 7. A deserter, who has just arrived from Khartoum, reports that Eimn Bey is a prisoner there, and is bemg well treated. Paris, January 7. General Boulanger has promised his support to the Panama Canal Company, and zs largely purchasing bonds. Sydney, January 7. Potatoes haye reached famine prices and are selling at 6d per dozen. Melbourne, January 7 Official returns show that the attendance at the exhibition up to date numbers 1,439,000. The receipts are L 26.23--8 January 7, noon. Paeis, January 7. M. Jacques, who has been chosen to oppose Boulanger, is President-General of the Council of the Department of the Seine. It is stated the laborers engaged on the Panama Canal are dissatisfied, a feeling having arisen that there are no funds to carry on with. It is feared that a total suspension of the work is imminent. Suakim, January 7, A Deserter states that Osman Digna is at Handoub with 1200 men, and has refused to yield to the advice to retire to Tokar. The deserter further states Osman recommenced offensive operations directly the British troops left. London, January 7. A laborer has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder and mutilation of a girl at Yeathbridge, in Somersetshire. Lord E. Churchill has purchased the racehorse Iddesleigh for two thousand guineas. The Queen has announced her intention of bequeathing her Jubilee presents to the nation. Berlin, January 7. Lieutenant Wissman proceeds to Zanzibar, in February, to enrol troops for service in Africa. Calcutta, January 7. Aspin wall's oil yards at Cochin, a seaport of India, were burned, Damage to the extent of £200,000 was done. Sydney, This Day. Heavy rains at Albury have done much damage to the standing crops and wheat stacks. The estimated loss is one third of the actual yield, Thursday Island, This Day. News from China states riots have taken place at Canton through the merchants importing machinery for manufacture of silk. Six persons were killed and many injured.