LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 88, 18 January 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. J [VR& UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION). London, January 16. Colonel Maleson, a well-known author has been cast in LIOOO damages as corespondent in the Idiary divorce case. ' Princess Maud is suffering from in- j fluenza. The case in which Colonel Malleson was mulcted in LIOOO damages, was a libel action brought against him by Mr 1 Herbert Gladstone, for saying the latter * would shortly have figured as a corespondent in a divorce suit but that his father had squared the affair. ! Frozen meat is unchanged. j Tallow is quieter. Mutton, 26s 6d; beef, 24s 6d. . Chicago. January 1.7. It is believed that Burke is likely to make a confession regarding Dr Cronin's murder. Lisbon, Janunry 17. Twenty thousand people paraded the streets last night as a demonstration against surrender to England on the Zambesi question. Zanzibar, January 15. Emm Bey has suffered a relapse and a serious discharge is flowing from one ear. The medical attendants proposes that the patient should undergo an operation. Washington, January 17. The Naval Board of the United States recommends that a new fleet of one hundred vessels should be built, at a cost of two hundred and eighty million dollars; the construction to be spread over fourteen years. . . . New Yoke, Jnnuary 16. Thirty thousand children are down with influenza in Chicago, Melbourne, January 17The Leader estimates that the- cereal yield for the season will be as follows : — Oats, 4,400,000 bushels being an average of 22 bushels, to the acre ; malting barley, 96,000 bushels, an average of 16 bushels to the acre; other sorts, barley, 400,000,000 an average of 20 bushels. The hay crop is estimated to yield 720,000 tons. "~ A block of buildings in Queen-street was burned out this evening. Estimated damage, L 25.000. St. Petebsbubo, January 18. The Czar, in replying to the New Year greetings from Moscow.' says he prays that the development of the resources of the country may continue undisturbed . amidst the" profound peace which is desired by all the great powers.