CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 8, 31 December 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Ky Electric Telegraph.— Copyright j.PiiR UNITED PRIiSS ASSOCIATION ( London, December 28. ' Mr Gladstone aud Mr J. A. Froude haye written to Sir Henry Parkes on the question of granting a Constitution to Western Australia. The members of the Pelican Club offer a prize of £1000 for a glove ti>>ht between Peter Jackson and P. F. Slayin, the Australian pugilists" The quotations for frozen meat are unchanged. The Great Powers haye refused to acknowledge any communication from Brazil uutil the jNatioual Assembly has had au 'opportunity of confirming the establishment of a Republic. Tt is reported here that an American squadron has been ordered to Lisbon to enforce Mr Murdo's claims with reference to the Delagoa Bay and (joldfields Railway. The mortality in Paris from the indirect, results of influenza is higher thau during the epidemic of cholera. Captain O'Shea is petitioning for a diyorce on the grounds ot: Mr C' S. Parnell's adultery with his wife. \ The death is announced of the Empress of Brazil, who was recently disposed from the throne.Information has been received from the Zambesi country which reports that the ! Makololo residents have been pacified, aud Major Piuto, reporting from Mozambique, asserts that the British residents there were thankful "for his protection. The Marquis of Salisbury is immovably opposed to arbitration, and Portugal also does not desiie**it. The Marquis of Salisbury is anxious to avoid any irritation pr to despatch a fleet to Lisbon, but has given orders that 'a powerful squadron shall rendezvous at Gibraltar, in order to be ready for any emergency. Mr J. G. Blame, the American Secretary of State,, has publicly denied that America is co-operatmg with England in forcing Portugal's hand. In reply to an address from Oporto, Senator De Gomez, v Minister of Foreign Affair*, stated tbat^ he is hopeful of an amicable settlement of the dispute between England and Portugal. The epidemic of influenza is spreading in America. The Manchester Examiner predicts that Sir Henry " Parkes will be the first Premier of Australia should the colonies become federated. ' Palermo, D l^ 28. ■ - A seyere earthquake has been experienced m Sicily, and seyeral fatalities are reported. Lisbon, Dec. 28. Intelligence received here" states that Emm Bey has suffered a severe relapse. Prince Carlos has been acclaimed King of Portugal with an ovation. PA'ttis,.Decemb.er 28 % One third of the population of this city is affected with inEuenza. Rio'dk Janeiro, December .2B. Foreigners here are protesting against enforced natu-alisation, as attempted' to be made under the new Government, and thero is every indication of a fresh rising. Political offenders are being tried under martial luw. Numbers of the aristocracy are menaced. Zanzibar., December 27. Stanley sails for Egypt on the 13th Jauuarv, Emm Pasha expects to follow toward the end of the month. Calcutta , December 27. Owing, it is said, to Russian intrigues, the vfghaus ou the frontier are develop • a ieeling of discontent which the British. It is reported that they are urging rebellion. Nkw York, December 29.- v The Whites stormed the Barnwell prison* in South Carolina and seized and' shot eight Negro murderers.