CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 7 December 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright 1 (per united press association [ > Lond -N, December 5 -

The South London gas stokers thi eaten to go out on strike unless a thousand employes are dismissed- who .signed the profit- sharing agreement.

Mr Balfour Chief Secretary for Ireland, was banquetted at Glasgow last evening. There were 2700 persons present on the occasion. .

The St. James Gazette animadverts on the payment of £12,000 ".by the Strike Executive" to the Dockers' Unions, aud points out that there is a discrepancy m tbe statement and' balarice-sheet'as compared with the statement of the Australian press as to the amount subscribed to the strike fund by the colonies.

An English Company has made,an application'to the" French Government for concessions to assist them in undertaking the work of throwing a bridge across the English Channel.

At a meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company Mr Johnson moved an amendment to the motion for the N adopt* ion of the report, censuring the Board for putting Mr Dawes into such a position as to leave the Company at the mercy of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company. Sir John Gorst- having replied, the report wa9 adopted by a large majority. Mr Dawes, in explanation, said his assistance stopped a breach and saved the Company, '

At a banquet given to Mr Balfour, the liltfh Secretary, at\3-lasgow" last evening the Earl of Fife presided. The guest ot the evening, responding .to the toast of his health, said that Home Rule was the half-way house to separation. He characterised the agitation in favour of Scottish autonomy as a crazy crotchet. A Colonial Securities Trust Agency, with a capital of one million, has , been floated.

Zanzibar, December 4,

Stanley has arriyed at Bagamayo. The Emperor William of Germany sent him a cable message of welcome.

Stanley has discovered immense tracts of fertile and well watered pasturage. He ascribes his escape from numberless savages ,to a special providence.

H.M. Stauley arrived at Tava on Saturday, and was met with by Major Wissman's lieutenant, -who entertained • him at a banquet, .Responding .to the toast of his houith, Mr Stanley ' eulogised the German enterprise in East Africa. It appears that after the meeting at Wadelai Emm-Bey and Jephson were sentenced by the enraged mutineers to be hanged .for making their escape in order tore join Stanley. Luckily they were not recaptured by the mutineers, who would probably haye cai r ied the sentence into effect if they could have laid hands on them. Emm Bey remains in the service of the Khediva. Both Stanley and Emm Bey are well, though much aged. Lisbon,, Dec. 5. The Portuguese Government refuse to yield their claims to Zambesi.- ' " Bio de Jan eibo; December 4. The Freuch, Swiss, and American recognition of the Brazilian Republic is declared informal, as no suoh recognition can be accepted uutil the National Assembly confirms the results of the recent revolution. < '

Thursday Island. Dec. 5

Eastern News.' — A great fire occurred at Foochow on November 11. Two thousand housss were destroyed, and 41 lives were lost.

• The ste.iinei- Dehbury, which lef - Smga • pore for Hong Kong on October 21, with 400 Chinese passengers, has not since been heard of, aud it isfeared she . has been lost.