LATE CABLES.

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

LATE CABLES.

. .» By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright* I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! , London, February 2 The carmen arid dockers decline to work with non -Unionists- after 10th February. It is being arranged to hold a holiday throughout the Chi feed Kingdom on Ist May, ter advocate the eight hours system. " Mrs Langtry is in a precarious state of health. - Allpress,. alias Armitagev whw escaped after robbing the Commercial Bank at' Melbourne r has been arrested in England and remanded. Mr Parnell has bee© advised that th* American National League' will postpone the meeting - of the con vention pending they British elections, in case of a dissolution. February 8. It k> understood that Edinburgh will confer the freedom of the city onH.M* Stanley. •■■>•••. • An* Italian East African Company fc proiected, with a view of establishing factories in that country under the- protectorate of Italy. it is stated that the British-delegates a£ the anti-slavery conference propose as are alternative the rigbt to search ships, and that each Power should use strict surveiL lanae to prevent the -importation of armsfor slave hunters in Africa. >ydnky. February 1 Heavy gales have i een raging altagr the whole eastern coast, with tremendonsseas. A lame ship is reported to '< •ds*masted off Gabo Island Assistance has 1 been.senV • 'fbe eteauier Riverina. which went as*, hoi c along the coast near Gubo Island^ . has become a total wreck. Hkklin. Fehruarv ,L Bismarck has resigned the position of Prussian Minis' er of Commerce. Zanzibar, February 1. A British squadron has beeu ordered to»' Mombesa. Ottawa* PV>rttiry.l. The Canadian League has passed resolutions declining to be taxed for Imperial purposes unless Canadian product* are fayoured in the British markerp, and' approving the establishment of sn lm- : perial penny post.

Received February 4, 12.15 p.m. Bkbms. Fe-'rii'ir 3.; It is stated that Portugal has appealed to the Powers for a conference on the dispute with Eugland. Lisbon, February 3., English, coal is being boycotted in Port' ugal, 200,000 tons having been purchased in- Belgium. ... Pabis, February 3 The Journal des Debates st&tes that the Dubourdeen, the flagship of the French Pacific Squadron, has twice broken down, • and the Admiral demands a fresh ship. ...."-. Syd.vby, Hns Dayy -So far the predictions made in October • last by Mr Egeson, of the Weather De- . partment, that there would be very heavy rain, followed by large floods, in the early part of 1890 h»ye been fiiifilled. The ' rainfall in the northern districts has been extraordinary, 6ome stations registering as much as 7 inches in 48 hours. Brisbane, This Day. It is estimated that the .recent floods: , will resul tins loss of fully. £30,000 in the 1 sugar industry. The damage from the same cause in the Maryborough district ' is reported to be close on £70,000. London, February 3. Mr Parnell's aotion against The Times, has been settled. The latter pays £5000/ damages. ' The prospectus is being issued of an Australian Gold Extracting' Company. The object is to acquire the Colonial rights Co Pollock's patent. Allpress was charged with stealing£7o,ooo from the Commercial Bank vt < Melbourne, at first he denied his identity but afterwards admitted it. The Rev. Canon Smith has withdrawn his acceptance of the Bishopric of Sydney,, " in order to remove the deadlock which ' has arisen.. . ' The shipwrights and engineers .of they Tyne threaten to strike for an adyance of fifteen per cent in wages. Sir J. Yogel, in a letter to Tbe Times,, argues that a halfpenny internal rate . should precede the establishiiseat of Imperialpenny postage. " ' .- Sir W. Buller and family have booked' passages for Australia. Mr Parnell has requested the American: League to send over funds to help the-' Irish party to contest the general election. The dispute between the Rugby Unior:* 1 of England aud Scotland, which has. caused the International matches to fall through for some years,, has been settled. . The Standard fears there will be a panic in the money market if the banks do not. make the rateof discount effective. .Itbelieves the five percent, rate in Februarywill bring gold into the country from New York and Rio Janeiro. Vienna, February 3. Dr Bokai, an Austrian medical man,. 1 has discovered an antiseptic for hydro-. phobia. It contrains enfecalyptus (?)* Suakim, February 8. Osman Digna is reported to be marching on Tokar. . '•'" Yobk,. February 3. By an explbsion of gas in »' colliery afc Welkesbarre; Pennsylvania, two miner* were killed' outright aud many fatally injured; In consequence of assistance from the # other banks, the National Equitable wilfi be able to. make good its lossesby robbery of securities in -'fall, St Hktkbsbcrov February 3. Russia is establishing a naval station, in the Baltio Sea, near Lilian*, at a cotfc of thirteen million roubles. '