CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 115, 22 March 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PER UNIT4SD PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Londok, March 19. ' It is stated that the Conference of Conservatives summoned for Thursday is to consider the propriety of a dissolution. Lord Salisbury will probably threaten his party with it unless the Government is loyally supported sand business advanced. The Liverpool dock strikers are resuming work. The Warwickshire colliers have accepted an immediate increase of 5 per cent, with a promise of 5 per cent more when it is conceded elsewhere. London is not affected by the decrease in output, plentiful supplies being received from the northern fields. The Select Committee on Emigration is resuming work. The Eev Mr Donaldson states he is unaware that he has been nominated for the Primacy of Australia. Bank of New Zealand shared, £7 10s; National Bank of New Zealand, £2. A cargo of wheat, ex Chili, from Lyttelton, has been sold at 34s 3d. It has been discovered that the hoisting of the British flag in the Shire district took place outside which England admits belongs to Portugal. Lord Randolph Churchill refuseß to resign, owing to the limited character of the censure passed by his constituents. The Duke of Manchester is in a critical condition at Naples. Obituary.— John Rogers Herbert, E. A. aged 80 years. The Gl<>be states that M. de Caprivl has been appointed to succeed • Prince Bismarch. The colliery owners in Lancashire and Cheshire remains obdurate, but those in Leicestershire are yielding to the demands of the men. The shipping at Hull is largely affected The strike' has resulted in 30,000 mill hands being thrown out of work. Coal is being retailed in London at £ 2 per ton. v The Liverpool dock men are experiencing great distress. : The Eev. Mr Eubie, Tioar of Oartmel, has refused - the Archdeaconship of Bailar^t. ♦ . March 20. Ojwingto the miners-strikes -strike there' are half a million unemployed in Lancashire. Tens of thousands of cotton Wms are idle. The supply of gas in J.ho uortl iis becoming reduced in many places. Half the Yorkshire owners have yielded. Beblin, March 20. It is thought Bismarck considered himself slighted because the Emperor did not consult him on all points of pokey. The crisis has caußed a heavy fall on the Paris and Vienna Bourses, but has only been slightly felt on the London Stock Exchange. Irkutsk, March 20. A number of Nihilists prisoners who were banished to Poland for starting a printing press here, barricaded themselves in a building and killed several of the troops before they were shot down. " Pabis, March 20. News has reached here that the French, captives in the hands of the Dahomenyans are being subjected to great cruelties. The French , Consul at Whydoh, was so agitated at the state of affairs that he attempted to commit suicide. . Ottawa, March 20. Mrs Birchall, who, together with her husband, were sentenced to death for the murder of an English tourist, and who afterwards had the death sentence commuted, has been discharged fi.om custody. New Yobk, March 20 The Republican Committee of the Congress propose that a reduction of duty should be made to 11 cents per pound on clothing wools, to 12 cents on combing wools, to 3£ cents on carpet wools of the value of 12 cents or less ; a reduction to eight cents if the value is under 12 cents. After giymg manufacturers .compensatory duty for the duty upon wools, the total revision of the tariff will involve a j reduction of sixty million dollars.