CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 44, 1 October 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegrapii.-r-Copyright JPK K UNITED. PRKSS ASSOCIATION. [ Lbxposr, September 28i ... H.M.S. Royalist has be^u reeom--missioned for the Australian' "station, and relief crews for both her and ILM.fci Egeria will leave Portsmouth, on October 20th. Owing to the projectected corner in cotton the market has long been disturbed, and many mills are now closed in order to limit the production j and so as to defeat the ring. Both in Vienna and -Berlin there is L a war scare, at the reported advance of -Ens-: sian troops oii the frontier. Itisbelieyed that this anxiety is a subterfuge to defeat! the Russian loan. - . - The blockade of the Eart African ports having ceased, the German squadron at Zmzibar is dispersing. . .. : . The Botiei'dain dockmen have gone out on strike, and show a menacing attitude toward the English, lumpers loading British ships. The police were stoned while attempting to prevent any disturbance. . September 29. The will of Richard Pigott, forger of the " Parnell" letters, has been proved under £2000. Mrs Georgma Weldon has obtained an injunction against the .New York Herald for alleging that she- was married three times and twice divorced. - The paper also states that the death of Weldon, her third husband, about which there were circumstances which drew public attention to the widow, was due to natural causes. Bebsin, September 28. It is announced that the Germau 3overnment will assume the administration of the property possessed by the German' New Guinea Company in October. Paris, .September 28. The Exhibition jurors have mad© further awards as under:— lv forestry and agricultural products a grand prize to the New Zealand Government. Iv the class for preserved meats, fish, yetetables, and fruit the awards areGold medal, Gear Meat Company, Wellington ; silver medal, Wellington Meat Company. Iv class teaching of agriculture, the Canterbury school was awarded a silver St. Petebsbtjbg, September 2S. Forty out of fifty-six of the Russian 1 cavalry regiments are ranged along the German and Austrian frontiers, and the districts bordering on Gahcia and Buckovina (two provinces of Austro- Hungary) are crowded with troops. It is believed that a fresh Russian loan is imminent. Athens, September 2.8. The English Consul at Canea confirms the reported atrocities committed on I Christian residents at Crete, and states that in response to pressure brought to bear by the various consuls the Governor Chakir Pasha, has released a large num ber of prisoners. Constantinople, September 28. The Snltan has decreed to a reduction of the army on a peace footing to 100,000 strong, thus saviug £2,0.00,000 annually.