CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 103, 22 February 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEK UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION. | London, February 20. Lord Knutsford congratulated Mr W. Shiels,' member v for Normauby in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, aud hia ability displayed in promoting the Divorce Bill passed by the Victorian Parliament. The Cabinet advise Her Majesty to give her assent to the Divorce Bill. Information hue been received here that forty persons have been killed by an explosion of gas in a colliery at Nervas. The Australian horse Ringmaster has been accepted for the Liverpool Cup. After an exciting contest the chess game between Mr Gunsberg aud M. -Tschigorm- \fras by mutual consent declared drawn. The.. Liberals are drafting an amendment to Mr Smith's motion of thanks to the Parnell Commission. : Mr Henniker- Heaton asserts it to be feasible to reduce the cable rates to Australia to one shilling per word if the monopoly enjoyed by the Eastern Extension Company were terminated. dThe Bank, rate of discount is 5 per cent. San Francisco, February 20. After a desperate fight to-day, extending over two . hours, Jack Dempsey knocked out Billy McCarthy m 28 rounds. Berlin, February 20. o Most of the Great Powers" agree with the principle of the Emperor .William's proposal for a Labour Conference. YANOotrVBR. February 20. The Mayor of Vancouver is urging the Orient Steamship Company to establish a monthly service to Australia from this city m connection with the Canadian Pacific Kailway. Pabis, February 20. . Le Matin states that a French loan of seven hundred million francs £28,000,000 is to be raised in order to pay of the deficiencies of the last few years. Amsterdam, February 20. The Communal Theatre has been destroyed by fire.