CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 141, 4 June 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEK UMTjJD PBKSS ASSOCIATION. [ London, June 1. Madame Melba, the Australian cantatiico, has boon engaged for the season m Paris at £100 v week. The newspaper proprietors have combined to start a paper mill. This determination has caused a depressing effect on the paper ring. The London County Council has decided, by a majority of 60 to 9, in favour of openiug inu.snums and art galleries to the public on Sundays. In an article on New Zealand, the Financial News states that the clouds hanging; over the Colony are lifting, and it praises tho economy of the Government. Dublin, Junel. News was received here to-day that the manager and assistant of the branch of the Provincial Bank at Ballymena, in County Antrim, had been found shot dead on the public road. It was proved that tho two men having quarrelled, the assistant manager out of revenge, shot the manager, and then committed suicide. Zanzibar. June 1. Small-pox in a most virulent form has broken out among the native troops under the command of Captain Wisaman, and numerous deaths are reported. Berlin, June 1. The language of the Czar on the occas ion of the betrothal of the daughter of the Prince of Montenegro has caused a feeling of disquietude both h«re and in Vianna. Eolations are strained between Switzerland and Germany in consequence of the arrest in the former country of two German commercial travellers on a false charge of being spies. Washington, June 1. In connection with the seizure of an American fishing vessel, the state officials dec'are that ;h« American jurisdiction oyer the Alaskan side of Bearing Sea is absolute, and therefore no basis for parleying. The American revenue steamers Boar and Thetis have been ordered to Behring Sea. Victoria (8.C.) June 1. The steamer Vigilant has seized an American fishing echooner engaged fishing in the waters in the vicinity of Cape North. Pa his, May 30. A tragedy is reported from Saint Die, a manufactured town in the department of Vosges, where a man inuniered his wife and five children and then com mitted suicide. Poet Ay Prinze, June 1 General Hippolyte, leader of the insurgents, has defeated the troops of the Government of Hayti under General Legitiine, the President, and has capt ured i ort an -Prince. General Hippolyte will become President of tho island.