LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 10 December 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (pee united press association.) London, December 9. The trade returns issued for the eleven months of the year show the exports to have been £11,000000, & the imports £40,000,000 above the returns for the corresponding period of last year. The strike of the gasmen at Manchester is paralysing trade', and has led to several of the churches being closed. Lord Wolseley states that the British army will shortly be supplied with cartridges made with smokeless powder Mr Parnell addresses a meeting' at Nottingham on Tuesday next, as a counter, demonstration to the National Unionists ' Preparations are being made at Ply- ' 1 mouth to welcome the officers and men of H M S Calliope on their arrival. Mr Gladstone has had a narrow escape .from being involved in a railway accident. A bridge near Hawarden fell immediately after a special train conveying Mr Gladstone had crossed it; - .. New ' York, December 9. The New York Herald asserts that a Catholic Bank is being formed, under the auspices of the Vatican, .with a capital of twenty millions.

Jefierson Davis, ex-President of the Confederate States, died of malaria, induced by chill. The body is lying in state at New Orleans His family are destitute, and a fund is being raised for their support. ! | Zanzibar, December 8. Emm Bey is improving, and his recovery is now more hopeful: Emm Bey received an injury to one of his eyes by his fall, and is bleeding at the ears, bnt it has been ascertained that the skull -was not -fractured - as. at .first supposed Adei^aide, December 9. Sir Wm Robinson, who lately has held the position of Acting-Governor of Victoria, has sailed for England, he having been relieved by the Earl of Hopetoun. ,

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' Details of the revolution in Brazil, received by the mail,' disclose great incapacity on the part of Dom Pedro. The glove fight, between Slavin and J. Smith takes place on Sunday week. Odds of 100 to 1 are laid onSla'vm: • . " -" -

I The next seriea of wool Bales egina on J January 28, and al]^arrivals up to. date I -will be Emitted.