CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 62, 12 November 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

My Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jl'Kl* I'NrTiD PRKSS ASSor.IATInIV [ London. iS'ovem »er 9

The doath is announced of the mur -jra laHc wife of Prince Alexander of Hat

tenburg,

At the wool sales pi ices are firmer. Ntvw Zealand 4 per cont inscribed stock loti£, with an active market.

Australian wheat ex' warehouse, 39h 3d : lonfrbarried, ex-stoiv itts 6& witli market quiet.

The . Mansion House Committee' ujhold tfa|j view takemby the lightermen in resisting the award made by Lord Bi ; aB--sey. ■:'■ : . .. ■ ■; • . . ':"..?^*l, A horrible scandal in connection with a private West End Glubia reported : Ninety-eight members ' in ~all r are;:iniplicated. Thirty-one warrants haye V.beeii; issued. The list* of the offenders include; future dukes, the/sona of ; dukes, peerß, Hebrew financiers,, many- honourable persons, and several pfficersVof the/phpenal Xriny. All the lattter have suddenly resigned their commissions. ; . '.■■ It has been' reported to the Home, authorities that a plot to steal the Indian; mails while in transit through Italy has beeu frustrated.

Lord Brassey endorses the; decision arrived at by the Mansion House with regard to the strikers. Uuder the pressure of the Dockers' Union, the clerks of the Dock Companies and foremen of the docks have, for mtjd a Union. ■■-■..•;■•■■■

Ten thousand bakors in London go but on strike on. the 16th, deua&Mdin^.siJfty; hours as a week's work, aiid; any time beyond that to be paid for as overtime. November? 10.

Laurie, charged with murdering "an English tourist named Kose, at Goatfell Island, off Arran, has beau found guilty ou the capital charge and sentenced to death. : '' : -

The Strike Committee in order to show gratification at the action of the Broken Hill miners riot to work with' blaeklegsj will forward £1000 to Hheir assistance, and;inore will be seut,if necessarv.

A large meeting in Hyde Park^yjesterday carried a resolution to boycott; the master bakers for refusing the : demands of the men for a reduction in the hours.

At the Pelican Glut » to-day the i boxing match between Peter Jackson and Jem Smith, for a prize subscribed; by the members, took place; Jackson won in. the second round, when Smith backbjeeled amid a tremendous uproar.; '~.;\-i :.i : : The English wheat market is 'steady; Continental is inactive, and American unchanged. New Zealand hemp, £29 5s to £29 10s. Chicago, November 10. An instrument case, identified as; a portion of the propertv of the late; Dr Oronm, has been recovered near the spot where the body was found.. ; Capetown. Nov. 10. R.M.S. Tongariro sailed to day for Nevr Zealand, via rlobart. / The German flag has been Hoisted at Port Durnford, a harbour on the coast pi Zululand. ' Paris, November 8. The Directors of . the Comptoir d'Escompte have resolved to increase, the capital to 80.000,000 francs. -:. .-•3E^;- '■■.'■■ SuaKIM, November^. Osraan Digna is assembling' the Mahdists at Dougola, and threatens:;, to' march northward. . The. Egyptian troops, on the frontier are being reiuforced. ' Received November 13, 12.15 pm. ;./:.■• Chicago, Nov. 11. Alexander Sullivan has been discharged, no indictment having been found against him. . The body of a naked man branded "Traitor" has been found on the shore of Lake Johanna. . It is believed to be the work of the Clan-na-Gael. Cfonin's clothes and prescription book have been found where the body was discovered. London, November 11." Sir Arthur Elibank Ha velock represents v the colonies at "the anti-slavery conference. Mr Bradlaugh intends to resign the Presidency of the Secularists Association.