LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 96, 6 February 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

■ — w By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. fPE* UNITED PHEBB ASSOCIATION. | London, February 5. The Carmen's Union, consisting of 14,000 men, and the Liverpool, Irish, and Scotch dockers of 30,000 men are amalgamating. Colonel Saunderson, MR for Armagh, will make a lecturing tour through America and Australia in the autumn. February 6. It is reported that all" tbe.poweri, with the exception of Germany/have accepted the proposal of Portugal for the appointment of a conference -to discuss the dispute between the latter \ country and England, with regard to/^ the ZatnbesL England, it is said, ba» already given her assent, Captain 0* hea has retained Bir E, Clarke, Soeici tor- General, to conduct his divorce case. Paxis, February 5 Le Temps asserts that the fears of the Australians as to the influx of reoidivistes from the French colonies i» unwarranted, as only 32 have escaped in five years, and of these 16 were captured and extradited. jNbw; Yojalt, Pebruiiry 6 The National Equitable Lennox Hill Bank, which suspended payment owing to the abstraction of securities, has re-opened. - Beblin. Febroart 6. .- The editor of the Kolnische Zeitung: has been imprisoned for a month for publishing slanderous statements referring to the Empress Frederick. Sofia, February 6. A plot involving several officers* who were conspiring to murder Prince* Ferdinand and souib members of theMinistry, has been discovered. Numerous arrests are reported San Fba Cisco. February 5. Sierra city, California, Jij*ir' fceens smothered with avalanches, aud large* numbers are digging for those buried. .V] KLBOUBNE, Feurnury 5. The Argus, in an article dealing with the New Zealand Primacy difficulty, states, that probably it is beat togo to Court 10 obtain an authoritative* judgment.

Beceived February 9, noon. Caibo> Febraary .5. Emm Bey is improving i» health,, and it is expected that he will be able to sail for England in March. Hkbin. Febrairy 5. The Emperor WiUiam has snxmnoneol the Straatsrath, in order to thoroughly discuss the condition of the operatives^ He will preside himself. ; " Paris. February 5. The estimates for the past year thow that the expenditure exceeds the revenueby 86,000,000 francs.