CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 84, 9 January 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEK UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION. [ London, January 6. The Dublin Corporation have refused to invit her Majesty the Q,ueen to open the museum there, fearing political discord. • The Pall Mall Gazette advises the seizure of the Delagoa Bay railway irr 3outh Eastern Africa, in which England and American capitalists are interested. Mr Hyndman, the well-known racialist and author of " Historical Basis of Socialism in England." accuses Mr Burns of treachery toward Socialism, • and denounces the balance-street of the dockers strike. Her. Majesty the Queen is suffering from acute rheumatism, and it is feared she will be unable to endure the fatigue and exposure of opening Parliament in person. The Rev Mr Spurgeon is better. Dr O'Oallaghan denounces the new secret revolutionary society in Cork, which claims the right to punish erring members with death. The money market is very firm. Another increase in rates is expected. Government has .agreed to allow the mail to leave Adelaide on Wednesdays. The alteration takes effect in April. Zanzibar, January 6. An engagement has taken place at Sanadauir between troops under Major Wißsman and the Arabs, and after four hours' fighting the latter retired, de-. feated. At Katunga, a place within the sphere of British influence,' the Portuguese searched the Makololos' canoes, and compelled them to surrender flags given them by the English. Consul Johnston has organised a force from among the warlike tribes of the district, and hostilities with the Portuguese are imminent. Berlin. January 6. The Emperor of Germany, in a speech to the garrison of Berlin, reminded them that while striving for peace it was essential that evry man in the army should be ready to hasten to the frontier. January 7. The election for the Reichstag will take place on March 6. Madrid, January 6. Alphonso. the Infant King of Spain has been indisposed, but is now recovering- . January 7. Tbe King of Spain is seriously unwell again. The child is now in high fever. Brussels, January 7The export of coal from Belgium has been stopped owing to the strike at Charleroi. Pabis, January 7 The French vintage will be eight million gallons below the average of last' twelve years. Boulanger intends to make desperate efforts to carry, the Paris municipal elections in May. St Petersburg', January 7. Russia has assumed control over the Army of Rokhas numbering six thousand men. Constantinople, January 7It is reported that in view of the attitude Greece and Servia, Mukhtar Pasha will be appointed commander of the Turkish troops in Macedonia.