CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 104, 25 February 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright jl>BH nNITiI) PRKSS ASSOCIATION | London, February 21. Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer states that "the Treasury has received a windfall, owing to the owners of 3 per cents failing to convert. February 22; The Times states that the Pan American Conference has failed to arrange an American zollyerein, as Washington refuses to admit wool from the Argentine Eepublic free. Father Kihsella has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment on a charge of building huts for evicted tenants from the Clongary estate. The Zalinski gun ordered by the^Victorian Government will be tried at Shoeburyness in April, as a guide to the Ordnance Department before any orders are given for- the gun by the British Government. The gun in question carries five miles." • It is suspected that the man who first outraged and subsequently murdered a girl at West Ham is an engineer proceediug to Australia. The colonial police have the man's description and have been warned to be on the look out. Lord Clifton has been imprisonmed for contempt in connection with the Bankruptcy Court. - At a Cabinet meeting a letter from Mr Gillies, Premier of Victoria, to Sir Graham Berry, with regard to the Victorian Divorce Bill was read. It is believed that this influenced the decision of the English Government. • Lord Tennyson and Mr Gladstone are both indisposed, suffering from severe colds. Mr W. H. Smith's motion on The Times-Parnell Commission has been postponed until the 3rd prox. The Government are favourable" to Mr Morley 's principle, that the Catholics and Jews should retain control of their schools, but consider the time is not yet ripe for bringing the question forward. The report of the death of Father Ignatius is unfounded. Canada is making large shipments of butter here. The Unionist party are issuing a pamphlet censuring The Times for its part in connection with the publication of the articles on " Parnellism and Crime," and at the same time it denounces the committal of outrages in Ireland. It is understood that Lord Salisbury declines to discuss the advieableness of holding a Conference for the purpose of sliorteuiug the hours of labour. . New Yoke, February 22. Kilrain and Corbett have been matched for a second fight. Slaviii ridicules Kilrain's challenge to fight him. Chicago. February 21. Kelly, arrested oii suspicion of being the driver of the vehicle in which Dr Cronin waa taken to his death, has been released. O'Donnell. convicted of bribing the Crouin jury, has been sentenced to three gears' imprison uieut. * Constantinople, February 21. Mussa Bey has been put on his trial aguin in connection with the Armeuiau atrocities. Ottawa, February 21. ; O'Connor has made a match to row ilunlan m August. Paris, February 22 The Russian conversion: loan of £14,000,000 has been covered sevenfold iv France alone. Tfce Cabinet is in favor of the release of the Duke of Orleans, but a majority of the Chamber of Deputies is opposed to it. Berlin, February 22. Iv the elections the Socialists have been successful iv the large- towns and factory districts, but have met with little j success in the mining districts. All the party loaders have been elected. Tho Emperor William expresses annoy, anoe that his recent decrees on the labour question have failed to satisfy the Socialists. February 23. The result of the elections for the Reichstag so far shows 78 Carte's (the lame given to the amalgamated uatioual Liberals and Conservative parties), 83 oe-..».0 or ultra inontanes. 20 Kadicala, 21 socialists, 14 Poles, 12 Alsatians and seven uuattaohed to any political party. There will have to be 139 second ballots, and besides there are still 23 returns to come in. Pekin, February 21. A hurricane drove a thousand Chinese boats to sea, and three thousand fishermen were drowned. Amst.bb.dam, February 23, Two Socialist leaders of the labour party in Holland have been arrested.