LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 83, 7 January 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, January 4. The inquest oh the fatal fire at Forest Gate is . proceeding. It ap pears that the dormitory of the school was locked from the outside, and the unhappy victims were unable either to obtain the key or force their way out. The prospect of a future large issue is injurious to the expected Victorian loan. The Economist predicts it will have to be postponed, and denounces borrowing for political purposes. Mr Gladstone declines to assail Eusßia on account of the Siberian atrocities until he is fully informed on the subject. Mr Bradlaugh has sailed for Bombay. ** The citation in the O'^hea divorce suit has been served on Mr Parnell. It is expected that his action against The Times will be heard in January, and the divorce case in June. Sir C Russell appears for Mr Parnell, and Sir E. Clarke for Captain O'Shea. Mr Parnell intends to indict the Government for conspiracy with Pigott, at the opening of next session, January 6. The gas strikers are appealing to the Trades Unions for assistance. The pickets have succeeded in inducing the crews of two colliers to leave their vessel at Greenwich. It ia announce I that Signor Zerbini, the musician, has committed suicide. Munich, January 4. Dr Dollinger, who is suffering from influenza, is in a precarious state. San FhancißCO, January 6. By an avalanche at Sierra City, in the-Rocky Mountains, seven persons were killed, and- it is feared that many others are buried. Sydney, January 6. Sailed — Arawata • and H.M.B. Orlando, for New Zealand. Beceived January 7, I p.m. Madrid, January 6. Senor Sagasta is experiencing some difficulty in forming a Cabinet »f the various groups composing the Li ! >wral party, owing to the demands oi" theProtectionists. London, January 6. The Emperor of Germany has presented Sir Evelyn Wood with a sword, as a souvenir of the review at Aldershot last year, which the Emperor witnessed.