CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 114, 20 March 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— — ■ ♦ " . ■.— By Electric Telegraph.—Oopyright JPKft UNITES PBKSS ASSOCIATION.! London, March 17. The total yield of the English wheat crop in 1889 was 69,000,000 quarters. The Aorta colliery is flooding. Fortythree bodies have been recovered. " Lord Randolph Churchill, in reply to the attack on him, has re-published^ his original protest against the Parnell opm.--mission at the time it was setup. He declares the promoters of the Commission were the real traitors, not the Unionists, In consequence of the riotous behaviour of those on * strike at Liverpool, an additional 500 troops- have been sent there, as it is believed .that the situation is a .gray*, one. The rioters upset a load of gram driven by a non-union man. and stabbed the carter. The mounted police were balled out and dispersed the mob. ; March 18. The Tory Association of Paddington for which district Lord B. Churchill site has censured his speech during the commission debate. The ,. Postmaster-General states England is not likely to attempt to introduce" uniyereal penny postage without con suiting the wishes and. interests of the colonies. .. •'. . . :_ 1 0wing to the Liverpool .strike, many shipments of goods for Australia have been transhipped to Hull. Galvanised iron, orb brand, £19. • Colonial stocks are depressed. Several of the large factories and mills at Bradford, Barnley and Sheffield have been closed owing to the strike among the colliers. The Liverpool . strikers - stoned the police constables during the riot which occurred there yesterday. . Some of the colliery proprietors at Bath, Boiton, and North Wales have yielded to the demands of the men, and 20,000 of the Yorkshire miners haye succeeded in obtaining an advance of wages. The Bu-keuhead dockers and 14,000 of the Elswick engineers have joined the strikers. Mr Cecil Raikes, the Postmastergeneral, replying to a question asked by Mr Henmker Heaton in the House; of Commons to-day, stated that it was impossible to establish penny postage with the Australian colonies without interfering with the postal union. . i NbwYobk, March 17. The Convention of the Clan-na-Gael Society has been summoned. ' ; Pabis, Marcli 17. M. Eibot will, be ■Minister of. Foreign Affairs, M. Constants haying taken the portfolio of Minister of the Interior. - M. Pasteur complains of the perfidy of New South Wales in withholding the reward offered for the best scheme of rabbit destruction merely because he was a foreigner The Duke of Orleans deprecates the petition to the Government for his pardon. Btjohabbst, March 17. .Russian troops are massing on the Eoumanian frontier. Munich, March 17. The Bavarian Government has declined to recognise the old Catholic members of the church. ■ Bismarck will haye an interview with. Dr Wmdthorst, leader of the .Centre, for the purpose of negotiating a union between the Cartel and Clerical! partiee, in order to . secure a majority in the Reichstag. Cabul, March 18. Isha Khan is preparing to make an excursion over the Afghan frontier. ' Bbblin, March 18. The Labour Conference has set up Committees to study the work in the mines, Sunday labour, and the employment of women and children. ' Lisbon, March 18. Major Pinto has been instructed to : proceed toMossameds, a Portugues colony 170 miles south of Benguela, West Africa. There is great excitement over hoist lug of the British flag at Shire in the Zambesi .country. . .