CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 84, 19 January 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PEli UNITiU PRKSS ASSOCIATION- j JLiOsnox, January 17. The reported arrest of. "Jack, the Kipper," arose froui an extraordinary likeness of an Englishman Lamed Gray (who had just arrived from Tunis) to the alleged author of the Whitechapel horrors. The National Mortgage Agency Company of New Zealand has declared a dividend of 5 per cent. Letters read.from the Congo report that Tippo Tib had refused to accompany the Stanley expedition on their return inarch to Emm Bey. Intelligence has been received from Singapore that the steamer Shyapeket had sprung a leak and the vessel commenced to settle down, ultimately foundering. Forty of the crew were drowned. Suakim, January 17. The rebels continue to make nigh* attacks, on the town. St. Petersburg January 16. The Czar has addressed a letter to his people, expressive of gratitude and devotion to the Almighty for his miraculous escape from death in the recent railway accident at Azor, and claiming that God was directing the destinies of Russia. Zanzibar, January 16. The insurgent forces attacked and destroyed the German mission station near Dar-es-Salam, on the Lake Nyassa road. The object of the attack was the re-cap-ture of over 100 freed slaves, which was successfully accomplished by the rebels. The German war vessel Mowe, one of the blockading fleet, bombarded the town, which was almost totally destroyed, without injuring the rebels, who retreated to the interior after obtaining possession of the slayes, and thus were out of the reaoh of the vessels shells.