CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 26, 16 August 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I'KH UNITED I'll KSS ASSOCIATION.) London, Amjnst 13. Signal boxes have been burned by the ' strikers to prevent the lines being worked. The Royal Engineers have been asked to work the railways. The potato disease is spreading, and it is estimated the yield will only be onefourth of the average, and feara of a famine are increasing. The Public Works Department have been requested to aftord relief. The military have been despatched to Birmingham. The potato disease has made it appearance in Ayrshire. The Anglo- Portuguese agreement will be signed to-day. The Emperor of Germany has started for St. Petersburg. There are indications that a silver ring will be formed in America before Christmas. One hundred and fifty of the Grenadier Reserves have been ordered to Bermuda. The War Office state they have been sent to infuse loyalty into the younger soldiers. August 14. The new Bourd of the Bank of Sew Zealand has been constituted as follows : — Colonel Bnring, Messrs John A. Ewn Richard Glyn, Herbert Fisnn, and Thomas Stewart, t; c Right lion. Anthony .]. M nndt'lln. nsi.i >S:r .1 nines I'Vryusson Another firm of lawyers has declined to act in Mrs O'Shea's divorce case. Five thousand fivo hundred quarters Australian wheat, August shipment, ;i:-v be?n sold at 38s N'-w Z'-alaud hemp is steady. Two thousand three hundred bales were sold at auction to-day. Fair Auckland, £20 5s ; good Wellington. £'21 K)s. New Zealand beef --Hindquarters, 4d ; fore quarters. 2^<l. Muiton— Unchanged. August 15. Tbe Times states the wheat crop of Great Britain will average 28i bushels to the acre, and that the total yield is estimated at eight million quarters. A cargo of wheat ex ship Red Gauntlet from Adelaide, and July and August ship, metit has been sold at 38s, another August cargo has been sold at 38s 3d, and one shipped in June at 27s 9d. Rome, August 13. Mass in memory of the late Cardinal Newman was celebrated in the Pope's private chapel. Nfw Yobk, August 13. War between San Salvador, and Honduras seems imminent. August 15. Twenty-five thousand barrels of whiskey were burned in a fire at the Kentucky distillery. Paris, August 14. M. Ribot is examining a scheme for the construction of an international railway from Algeria to Capetown. Phylloxera has appeared in the Marne and Rhine districts. Madrid, August 14. The cholera is declining. St Petbhsbubg, August 14 The Novosti Vremya predicts import ant political results from the German Emperor's interview with the Czar. Cholera has made its appearance at Nicolaieif, in Southern Russia. Bebun, August 13. The fortifications of Heligoland will cost a million and a half sterling. Buenos Ayres, August 14. Uneasiness is still felt at the position of affairs in the Argentine.