LATE CABLES.

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

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.-— Copyright, i PKB UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION. I London. January 18. lima de Must'ka, the Vocalist, died yesterday at Munich in great poverty. Her daughter suicided immediately after the death of her mother, her mind being un*, hinged with grief. Tallow is firm— Mutton, 36s 6d ; beef, 34s <sd. Mutton is tmchanged but beef shows as advance of $&. -: The Manager of the Bank of Victoria, Mr H. L, Taylor, thinks that the placing of the Victorian loan at three per cent, would have been a risky and possibly an I over-bold experiment, although the security was undoubted. He denies that the Victorian Banks have over-lent, and says the tightness is only temporary. The Times, in the course of an articleon the prospects of the Victorian loan, says that it would have been a doubtful experiment to place it at three per cent, although it believes the premiums already quoted for it are honest. The loan, it says, will be a certain success, audit anticipates that an average of £104 will be obtained for it. Zanzibab, January 16. The rebels have murdered the German Missionaries at Fuga, on the Pangana River, and have recaptured a large, number of freed slaves, who were sheltered at the mission station. ... . : Buenos A,ybes,. January 16. 'The National Congress of the Argentine Bepublio have paßsecf a bill guaranteeing the payment of bonds at the rate of 6' per cent for ten years on capital invested in the factories -employed in preserving and exporting beef. The capital thus invested amounts to ten million dollars. • . Sydney, January 1 3. The r proclamation dissolving Parliament will be gazetted on Monday. The writs will be issued on Wednesday, and made returnable in thirty-five days. Owing to a clause* recently introduced in the Electoral Act, 137 members will be elected tothe new Parliament, instead of the present number, 124. There are already a large number of candidates in the field'

Received January 19, 12.30 p.m. Bomb. January ]8. Mr Gladstone, who is spending the* winter in Italy, has requested an audience with His Holiness the Pope and King Humbert. Lobdon, January 18. Rev. 0. Spurgeon is recovering from big recent accident. . . . It is reported thai the Marquis of Harrington has purchased the Manchester Examiner and Times. ~ '.' ' • - < In the wreck of the steamer Priani last week Mr Sydney Holder, of Adelaide,.-was-drowned. Pams, January lft ... The French Government are increasing' the navy by the addition of four ironclads. . Antwerp, January 18. ; On Tuesday last' two aeronauts ascended! ~ in a baloon with th«P' intention of making a passage to England. Since then nothing; | has been heard of them, and it is feared i the balloon has fallen into the watery and the aeronautsdrbwned.