CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 82, 4 January 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright ■ JI'JB.R united i-rV-ss association. [ Lukdon. January 1. ■ The vjctima by the fire at Forest Gate [iidu.**;tnal ooh-iul were boys. They were all suff-.-c-ited while asleep Ihe nuniof those rescued was 80. Many of them were insensible when tnken out of the burnuig building. Influenza has spread iv England. It is of an .unusual sort, but the doctors doubt whether it is that form of the jfllotion known as Russian. The mortality in Vienna and Madrid has been doubled by the influenza Five thousand five hundred quarters of wheat, December Jauuary shipment, have been sold at '36s. ' It is reported that the Duke of Westminister is the donor of i'IUU,OOU in aid of a Convalescent Home. Lord .-ialiebury is improving, the fever having abated. bir M. Hicks-Beach, speaking at Leamington, said the Zambesi dispute was merely a passing cloud, as Portugal was quite. capable of satisfying all just demands. " - THe European press, generally speaking, anticipate a peaceful year * Mr Houston denies that he instigated Captaiu O'Shea to institute a divorce suit m which Mr Parnell was to be.imphcate'd. The citation has not yefc been' served. The Limerick Municipal Council has passed a vote of confidence m Mr Parnell. > Berlin. January 1. The Palace of Lacken is on fire. The Princess Clementine, mother 'of Princess Ferdinand of Bulgaria, had a narrow escape. The collection . of pictures aud antiquities has been destroyed. " January 2. The Palace at Lacken was gutted. The plate and the Gobelins tapestry were saved. The Princess Clementine's governess was suffocated. The origin is suspected to be incendiarism. New Yobk, January 2. , By a train leaving the rails in Ohio ten persons were killed and ten others injured. Rome, January 2. King Humbert, replying to a deputation from the Lower Chamber, said peace was now assured, owing to the rap* proaehuient between Germany and Russia but until recently he would not have guaranteed immunity from war for a forti night, A bomb was thrown at a deputation of the Chamber which waited mi King Humbert, but fortunately the missile did - not explode. Ottawa, January 2.. < O'Connor is willing to row any repog vised Australian oarsman for the ohain- -" pionship. Ile suggests that .a triple denes of races should be arranged : On ihe Paramatta River in April, m America in August, aud on the Tliauies m Octoher.