THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 21, 5 August 1890, Page 2

THE LATEST.

London, August 3. It is hoped that the Panama Canal can be competed for 300,000,000 dollars below the estimate. The rumour is revived that Mr W. H. Smith, leader of the House, will accept a peerage, and that Mr Balfour will sticceed him. Mr W. L. Jackson, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, ia mentioned as likely to assume the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland. Sir Mitchael Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade, is likely to take charge of the Colonial Office, Lord Knutsford becoming Lord Privy Seal. The Marquis of Salisbury has declined to accept the overtures of the friends of Lord Bandolph Churchill regarding the latter rejoining the Cabinet. It is announced that the Marquis of Hartington will marry the Dowager Duchess of Manchester in April. Tallow— Medium beef, 24s 6d; ditto mutton, 255. . The English wheat market is dull, the Continental unchanged, »nd the American declining.^ Spot New York red winter wheat, 98^ cents. For Australian wheat, on passage, sellers are asking 38b, but buyers are not inclined to give more than 37s 6d. New Zealand wheat, 375. Bio dk Janeiro, August 1. The New Zealand Shipping Company's B.M.S. Bimutaka sailed for Plymouth to-day. Lisbon, August 2. The commander of the Portuguese vessel which seized the British steamer at Mozambique has been cashiered. Bkblin, August 3. In the Eeichstagj Herr Wachrichten asserted that Count Waldersee recently advised the Government to declare war against Bussia. The latter at once denied the assertion, but Herr Waohrichten reaffirmed his remarks. ■ St. Pktbrsbubo. August 3. A Bussiari loan of sixteen million roubles is announced. .New Tobk, August 3. The outrages in San Salvador have been suppressed.

Received August 5, 11.30 a.m. ! London, August 4. I The railway men in the counties adjaI cent to South Wales have signified their intention of supporting the strikers. The Emperor William had a great reception at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight. . The Dunlos and Wertheimer dined together after the : divorce case was over. The lady goes on a staring tour in Ireland. The Railway men in South Wales are willing to accept Lords Brassey and Aberdare as arbitrators. If owners do not agree a hundred thousand men will be idle on Wednesday. A quarter of a million workmen will be affected by the strike. The Emperor of Germany goes to St. Petersburg after his visit to England. Erzerottm, August 4. The Turkish Reserves havedbeen called out, the authorities fearing a rising in Armenia. New York, August 4. A bridge-jumper named McCaffery leaped into the Charles river at Boston, from a height of 150 feet, and was killed. Thirty deaths have occurred in Chicago from sunstroke. Athens, August 4. A distructive fire has been raging over the peninsula of Mount Athos. The forests have been devastated, the monasteries and hermitages, for which the Mount has long been celebrated, are all destroyed. Twenty monks and hermits lost their lives. The damage it estimated at a million pounds. . - . Paris, August 4. The French Senate has passed a Sugar Surtax Bill. It is reported in Paris that dynamite has been discovered on the railway line between Bevill and Narva in the Baltic provinces of Russia. It U reported in Paris that a dynamite mine has been discoyered on the railwayline between Rival and Narva, along the route which the German Emperor intends to go to St. Petersburg. ~ Capetown, August 4. . The Supreme Court has ordered the Union Bank to be wound up.