CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 79, 24 December 1889, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JPEU UNITaI> PR 'OSS "ASSOCIATION-. | London, December 21. Her Majesty the Queen is preparing for publication further extracts irom her diary, including original verse. H.M,S. ships Baleigh, Curacoa, and Brisk have been ordered to proceed to Delagoa Pay owing to the attitude of Portugal in respe-jt to the territory along the Zambesi river. Mitchell's mohair factory, at Bradford has beeu destroyed by fire, and it is estimated that, the damage is fully two hundred thousand pounds. "Victorian butter, in bulk, is selling at 86s to 90s per cwt. A few lots of flue quality have reached as high as 100s to 116s. Private telegrams announce that General Foriseca, leader of , the recenly revolt in Brazil, is dead* December 22. Slavin was arrested yesterday at Margate and bound over to keep the peace. . He was released on securing the necessary sureties and afterward sailed for Belgium to fight Smith. The epidemic of influenza is so serious as to interfere with the trade of Europe. Mr O'Brien has been released. He was greeted with an ovation. _ Stanley urges that railway communication • should :be opened up between Mombara, on the east coast of Africa, and Lake Victoria Nyanza. Such lines would afford important markets for Europeanmanufactures. The sale of Lord Falmouth's stud realised 30,000 guineas, The statement that secret orders in cipher have been dispatched to the Admiral commanding on the East African Station is not confirmed. It is hoped peaceful settlement of the Zambesi difficulty will be effected. The Portuguese Government is dilatory in replying to Lord Salisbury's demands; and asks for time to consult Major Pinto. In the. meantime England is preparing for eventualities. Portuguese officers intend to present Pinto with a sword of honour. Savants will observe the eclipse of the sun to-morrow at Loanda and Barbadogs. Bank of New Zealand shares, old issue £6 10s to L 7 ; new issue L 9 to LlO. - Washing-ton, Dec. 22. The census of American woollen manufacturers on the question of admitting wool free shows 528 in favor and of 200 against. Vienna, December 23. Louis Kossuth, ex- Governor of Hungary, who lost his rights as a citizen of Hungary in 1879, has beeu re-instated He asserts that war between Austria and Russia cannot be ayoided, and hopes the 1 former will not allow the right moment to pass. Athens, December 21. It is 1 reported that atrocities in Cret e dtill' continue. Baku, December 22. By an accidental explosion of a shell Lhe Baku artillery magazine has been destroyed. Several persons were killed. Lisbon, December 2-ITT The Portuguese Government is favourable to the appointment of a European Conference to settle the dispute between Eugland aud Portugal respecting Zambesi There is considerable excitement throughout Portugal at the report circulated that the' Marquis of Salisbury lias deman led that the position in the Zambesi be testoied to statu quo, and the •jovomment should repudiate' the actiou of Major Pinto. There is, at the present, a serious republican movement throughout" the country, tending in , the direction of .ibolishing the monarchy." Kiode Janeiho, December 21. Already there is trouble brewing here, and a small meeting of the army has been held. ' - Paris, December 21. A trial has been made with a French submarine boat at Toulon, and she passed successfully under the ironclads. Hay anna, December 21. The Russian press exhort France to approve of the Egyptian conversion dcheme to enable the corvee to be abolished.