CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 8, 3 July 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER UNITSD PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ London, June SO Wheat is quiet ; prices are unchanged. New Zealand wheat has advanced 6d per quarter. Mr D. Hean's reports on the Bank of New Zealand have created a most favourable impression on the London Directors. The Earl of Carnarvon's funeral takes place on Thursday at Highclare Castle, Newbury. The negotiations for a .match between Slavin and McAuliffe has come to a standstill, and threaten to result in a failure. The postmen are much incensed at the alleged system of espionage to which they are subjected. . Julyl. The Court awarded great credit to the captain and crew of the Dacca for the discipline and rapid landing of the passengers, but regretted the ' absence of the captain from the deck at the time of the catastrophe. Mr Gladstone is supporting Mr Duncan the Eadical candidate for Barrow, against Mr W. S. Came, who resigned to test the feeling of the^electors on the compensation question. Lord B. Churchill is working for Wainwright, the unionist candidate. The telegraph operators have refused to work overtime, and it is feared that great inconvenience to the public will result.: The revenue shows an increase of L 1,146,000 over the same quarter of last year. Obituary — William Crawfbrd r M.P. for Durham; St. Petersburg, July 1. The Eussian press regard the agreement entered into between England and Germany, over the East African question, as only a part of a secret Anglo German alliance, and urge the formation of a counter alliance between France and Russia. —New York, July I, An engagement took place at Walapox between Mexican bandits and soldiers, seven of the latter being killed and 29 wounded. Washington, July 1. Hundreds of deaths are reported in the United States from sunstroke. Sullivan refuses. to fight Jackson on the ground of the recent police restrictions. A tornado swept over Kentucky and Tennessee. A church at Galatiu was wrecked during service and many people injured. Paris, July 1. Two peasants belong to Epinal while gathering firewood crossed the German frontier. When retiring they were challenged^ and/ not answering, the guard fired and wounded one of them. Sofia, July 1. A fresh Note, issued by the Bulgarian Government, warns the Porte that* if it refuses to recognise Prince Ferdinand the people will assert their power Prince Ferdinand only signad the warrant for Major Panitza's execution after the' Ministry had threatened to resign if he refused. •> : Vienna, July 1. Count Kalnoky is in a precarious state of health. * Buenos Atres, June 30. There is a panic in Argentine securities owing to the failure of the National Bank to pay the recently announced dividends. Gold is at a premium of 148.