CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 91, 7 February 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [>KK HtflTlCD PRK9S ASSOCIATION | Lo»DON, February 6. : Mr John Movley has declined to accede to the wishes of some of his supporters, who desired him to advocate the eight hours' programme.. The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland is protesting against " the inhuman indignities" to which Mr William O'Brien is being subjected by the prison authorities. Dems Eilbnde, M.P. for Kerry S., has been arrested at Leicester for advocating boycotting. . Dillon has abandoned his vist to Australia in consequence of the treatment to which his colleague Mr O'Brien has been subjected. It is stated that the Czar will visit Berlin in the summer, and that he will be escorted by 16 war vessels. In connection with the collision of the steamer Nereid and the ship Killochan from Lyttelton to Londan, which occurred yesterday off Dungeness. Both vessels sank within four minutes of the collision. The survivors were rescued by a passing tug. Fifteen hundred bales of wool have been saved from the wreck of the ship Sir Walter Raleigh, from Sydney to London, which went ashore on the French coast last week. It . is not considered probable that the vessel can be saved. The barque Eoseneath, which was on the berth at Glasgow for Adelaide, was totally wrecked at port Patrick. Taylor, the mate, his .wife and son, and three of the crew were drowned. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Chronicle telegraphs that Prince Rudolph first shot a lady of the Bohemian' nobility, and then shot himself. It is stated that the lady's body was secretly sent to her family, : St, Petkbsbuko February 5. The scheme propounded by Count Tolstoi, the Busman Minister of the Interior, for communal reform, has been rejected by the C/rancil of the Empire J>y a. large majority!. . Paris, February 4. With the concurrence of M. de Lesseps. the Tribunal has dissolved the Panama Canal Company. February, 5. The decision of the Tribunal respecting the dissolution of the Panama Canal Company empowers the liquidators to transfer the works at Panama to a new company. Bbvsmxs, February 4. By a railway accident near this city, fourteen people ware killed and fifty injured. Washdtoto*. February 6. A destructiye fire has occurred at Buffalo,, in the State of New York, extending over an area of seven acres and in* volving forty blocks of buildings.