CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 30, 26 August 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

• . By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I'Elt UNITKU I'IiKSS A»»OGI ATION .) Londo.n, Au«ust 23 Henry George approves of the Salya tion Army emigration scheme. By an explosion of gunpowder at afac tory at Walthaui Abbey, m Essex, two persons were blown to pieces. The medical officer of Clonakility, County Cork, reports that 3000 people in that district will be in a starving condition within a month unless assistance is rendered. Particulars of the Anglo-Portuguese Convention are published. Portugal is alloted Mozambique, Angola, and Loanda; England secures the right to the southern shores of Lake Ns'assa, the Shire Highlands, and Blant3're. Tariffs are restricted and reciprocal rights are arranged for. The navigation of the Zambesi is to be free. Speaking at a banquet at Swansea giyen in his honour, the Earl of Jersey said he knew the difficult task he had undertaken when accepting the euccessorship to Lord Carnngton, but it would be rendered somewhat easy by the kindness of Sydney residents. In concluding, he expressed confidence that New South Wales had a great aud grand future ief"re it. The Economist, iv referring to the Tarauaki Harbour Board iv New Zealand, asserts that the Government of the Colony has shown a lamentable absence of care aud financial rectitude over the Taranaki Harbour Board. August 24. Government are making official enquiry into the potato blight m Ireland. Washington, August 22. Mr Blame, Secretary of State, is opposed to the Behring Sea difficulty being referred to arbitration, ConßTaktinopu« August 22. Reports from Armenia state that the disturbances there are increasing, and much alarm is felt. IMew Yoek, August 22. San Salvador has rejected the terms of peace offered by Guatemala, and it IB believed that war will be renewed. Vienna, Aug ust 22. A severe hurricane has been experienced in the Proymce of Styna, and the National Exhibition at Gratz, the capital, was destroyed. Berne, August 22. The cyclone which passed over the region of Jura Mountains resulted in 100 lives being lost. The Claude Cathodral tower was destroyed and many factories collapsed.