LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 77, 19 December 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PEE UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION) •LuKbON, December 17. Bank of New Zealand shares — Oldissne, £5 ; new issue, £Q. A postman carrying Caps letters and packets, of diamonds was gagged and robbed in Hatton Garden. The diamonds stolen are valued -at twenty thousand pounds. < The December and January wheat shipments in iron vessels are quoted at 345. December 18. The Bank of New Zealand shares have recovered to the extent of 10s. Mr David Hean sails by the steamer Paramatta for the purpose of reporting on the position of the Bank. Thegunboafe Shannon has been despatched to prevent the landing of firearms on the African Coast, The Thames, Leander, London, and other rowing clubs have sent messages of condolence upon the- death of Searle. Rio de Janeiro, I'ecember'l7. Bankers are refusing drafts on Brazilian provinces. All resident foreigners have been declared citizens of the Republic. The rebellion was hastened by the' fact becoming known that Pedro had arranged to abdicate on December 2nd. Zanzibab. December 17. - Emm Pasha has been pronounced out of danger. - Captain Wissmarin hanged Bushin, the Arab leader, as soon" as he was brought in by his captors. ' ' \kw Yobk, December 18.. j The epidemic of influenza has made its appearance in this city. LisBON, December 18. Public opinion in. Lisbon favours a vigorous resistance to the English claims and menaces regarding the African territory. St PBTEnsBtTE&. December 17. Twe officers have been arrested on a charge of complicity in a new plot against the Czar. Sydney, December 18 Two men named Camp and Beecroft were, engaged to-day mixing non-corrosive paint in a ship-building yard at Pyremont, when the compound exploded with terrific violence. Both men received fearful in-, .■juries, and are now dead.