CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 81, 12 January 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright |*PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ Bkhlin, January 10.

The official press insinuated it i» desirable that the- Empress Victoria should make a similar deuial to that of the Dowager Empress Augusta regarding the Moner incident. A section of the German press is urging the annexation of Samoa, asserting that American interests are not eufli lent ty justify a dispute with Get many. London, January 10. A rumour which was current some four months ago, that Lord Harris was to succeed Lord Beay as Governor of the Bombay Presidency, is again revived. Mr J. Chamberlain and his wife met with an enthusiastic reeeptiou at the town hall! on their arrival in Birmingham. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce is taking.a plebiscite in that city on its Protection resolutions. Prince Henry of Bat'enberg has been appointed Governor of the Islo of Wight. The Board of Trade returns show that there has been a revival of trade during the year. The Motion between England and Portugal respecting* the claim of the latter to Nyssaland is becoming acute. ! The Standard says Lord Salisbury must ' vigorously resent Portugal's claims to control the mouths of tb» Zambesi. At a sale of two thousand bags of Queensland sugar, grainy sorts realised 16s; and syrups 11s 3d to 14s. The trial oi the Bishop of Lincoln on a charge of ritualism commences on July 12th. The press comment on the immense • nee in farming stock in Ireland. The railway receipts are also largely increasing. Bcda PbSth, January 9. Diphtheria is raging at Nagybarnyn, and 20 death from the disease are reported daily. Cabot, January 9. While the Ameer was reviewing troops on Boxing Day, a Heratese Sepoy attempted to assassinate him by discharging a gun at him. The shot missed, however, and the Sepoy was at once seized and executed. Pobt ah Pbinqe, January 9. Severe fighting has again taken place here. The President's forces have been defeated by the-revolutionists. Zanzibab, January 9. A letter believed to be written by Stanley, has arrived h«re addressed to the King of the Belgian*.