LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 113, 18 March 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

" • •- By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PBS UNITE© *8888 A88O0IATIOW. ) London, March 17. The Statist attacks borrowing by the Australian colonies,, especially Victoria, cm the ground that emigrants are excluded and the finances muddled. Paris, March 17. M r de Freycinet has succeeded in fprm> ing a Cabinet. CJowsTAirriNOMrK, March 17.. The refusal of the Porte to recognise Prroce Ferdinand as entitled to the throne of Bulgaria is due to the .pressure of • Bussia. Bbbmn, March 17- --; The Labour Conference has assembled* 'The President (Count Beriepeck) formally welcomed the delegates in the name of the Emperor The proceedings will be kept secret. The French, language will be employed ia the debate. , Calcutta Matreh 17- . Newahasbeett received fromCabulof an Afghan outbreak, leading to a> number of courtiers being beheaded/ Ishak Khan is massing troops in Bokhara, . Boxb, March I7r . An epidemic following rafiueaza ha» broken* out in Northern Italy. The patients attacked suffer a death-like trance for several days, bat a» yet no> deaths are reported. Beceiyed March 18 r noon, : London 1 , March 15 News has been received here that the ship Winifred, which 1 left Wdfington for London on Jan vary 14th, has put into* Bahia. She reports that her cargo, which consisted of wool, flaz r and skins was dis^ covered to be on fire, and it was thought advisable to run to the nearest port. It is now suspected that Sir Howard Elphinstone, passenger by the 8.M.& Tongariro to Teneriffe,. who* was reported to have been swept ever board by a heavy sea, committed suicide. A farewell banquet has been tendered tEwDnkeof Connougnf on the eve of his; departure ob a visit to America, China* and Japan* In- replying to- the toast of his health, the Duke declared that the defences of Bombay were' quite useless^ and would afford no protection to the city in case of bombardments : . Lord R. Churchill's speech in the debate on the report of the Parnell Commission, is strongly- condemned by the Tories of Birmingham. I . Dui»aw, March Iff. Mr Buchanan, the British Consul, has: re-hoisted the British flag, proclaiming; , British role over the Shire district. : Melbourne, This Da-y. Large bush- fires are raging in the 1 neighborhood 1 of Camperdown and Flinders, and great destruction has resulted to grass and fencing. ;