CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 95, 4 February 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Hy Electric Telegraph.— Copyright jPK'i fNIT^D PRKS* ASSOCIATION | London, February 1, . The vital statistics for the Metropolis for tho past woek record deaths primarily due to influenza as 103. A murder surrounded with most revolting circumstances is reported from Crewe, a great railway dep6t of England, on the London and North- Western Railway, at its junction with the Chester and llolyheud line. Two youths who had had a misunderstanding with their father made a sa vage onslaught oa him, apd injured him so severely that he. succumbed. It is understood that tier Majesty the Queen will pay a visit to Aix -les- Bains toward the end of March. Aix-lea-Bains ia au ancient town iv the Department of Savoy, France, much resorted to for ita thermal waters. Tho screw steamer Erin, belonging to the National Steam Shipping Company of Liverpool, is now a fortnight. 'overdue from New York, and it is feared that she has foundered with all on board. The Erin had a crew numbering fifty, but no passengers. She was an iron vessel 'of 2848 net tonnage, and was built by Messrs Palmer Brothers, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, in 1864. The English press comments favourably on Sir Charles Dilke's book'" Problems of Greater Britain." The 3-'»verument will nominate Charles Bradlaugh M.P. for Nortuhampt n and Sir George Campbell, M.P. tor Kirkcdiy as members of the Committee to inquire into the question of granting Consiitu tional Government to Western Australiu, France and ■ Rus-ia are pressing the Sultan of Turkey to insist on the. Engli aa e> acuation of Egypt. ~ Five hundred of the Thames oarsmen aud Australian colonists have signed the testimonial iv memory of the late H. E. Searle. The testimonial will take the shape of a handsomely-engrossed picture of the late brilliant sculler. It is rumoured that Field Marshall. R.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge is about to resign the positiou of Commander-in-Chiof of the Army, and that he willbe succeeded by the Duke of Connaught. New York, February 1 The losses of the Nutional Equitable Lennox Hill Bank, owing to. the securities being abstracted, are 750,000 dollars. Many of those suspected of beiug im plicated bave been arrested.