LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 52, 19 October 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph- — Copyright (PEB PHEBS ASSOCIATION.) ' " Ran Fraitoisco, October 18. " Thirty people were killed and many others injured by a railway collision at Sterling, in Califo n i.

London, October 17. New Zealand frozen mutton 2s quoted at 4£d and be<*f at 3£d per lb. It is intended to secure a Home Bale seat for Sir George Grey. ' ' The disposal of the strike surplus has been delayed, awaiting the production, of, the balance-Bheet. As yet no proposal has been made as to how- the money Bhould be allocated at the end of January* Sir William Vernon Harcourt, addressing a meeting at Carnarvon, expressed an opinion that the Church of Wales • must cease, Ffe mentioned that the party to which, he belonged declined to disclose the details of Home Role until they were assured of a majority. Beblin. October 18 The Nord Deutsche Zeitung states that Great Britain and America concurred with Germany at the late Saiooan Conference that Mahetoa, and not Mataafav should be recognised as' King of Samoa, Athens, October 18., Four battalions of troops at Crete have broken out in mutiny and maltreated the* officers. The men had beeH ordered tomake roads, and this they refused to do, Hambttbg, October 18. Seven hundred dock labourers . have gone out on strike, demanding an increase of 2|d per hou -. St.. Petebsbubo, October 17. The Ozar and party have left Dantzics for this city. The route along which His Majesty proceeds is guarded by. 50,000 troops. Pakis, October 17. Sir F ancis Dillon Bell will present to Fren' h. museums the mineral collections of the ISTew Zealand Government, • Rio de'Janiebo, October 18. The R.M S. Coptic has grounded m Rio Harbour, and the forehold is being: discharged. It is expected that the< steamer will sail shortly for Plymouth, The mails will be forwarded by one of the Messageries Maritime steamers. It is reported that two thousand carcases of' frozen mutton have been damaged. Sydney, October 18. Mr Henry George; author of ' * Progress and Poverty," will pay a visit toAustralia in January. > , • Melbourne, October 18, [ Some excitement was created in the . ( suburbs of Fitzroy by the discovery of an alleged case of Asiatic cholera. An Indian, from Singapore, died . suddenly 5 and one doctor declared it a case of true; cholera. T The gems recently found in the Tan f Tean re?ervoir have conclusively proved. I the existence of typhoid. The bacteria samples of the same water, tested by , Professor Kutz r show no trace of microbes.