CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 44, 27 September 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (MIX UNJTKn PKESS ArssOClA.'l'lON.) London, September 24. The New Zealand Shipping Company will pay a dividend of 6 per cent, subject to the sanction by the Courts of a reduci (ion of the capital reoently assented to 'by the shareholders. Mr Parnell intends to convene ft conferenoe of the Irish Party at Dublin. Mr O'Brien has brought forward a motion in Parliament for an investigation of the charge against Daly, now undergoing a sentence of imprisonment for conI •piracy. Sir S. Samuel, on behalf of New South Wales, has purchased Captain Cook's logbook. • Messrs Dillon and O'Brien have been | making defiant speeches at Tipperary. Lord Spencer, speaking «t Wakefield, condemned the recent arrests of Irish members, which he contended proved that Balfour's methods had been a failure. The Agents-General agree that it would be useless to station an inspector of stock at Glasgow. The inspector from London would be able to visit the Northern city and do all that is required.. By an explosion on board the Australian cruiser Pandora twelve men were fearfully scalded. Wool is Hardening. Good scoured sorts show |d, and faulty pieces and locks Id advance. Greasy sorts are from par to £d above the July rates. The strike of the blast fornacemen has causeda rapid rise in Glasgow pig iron, but on the men returning the price fell to 525. Washington, Sept- 24. .. A motion has been tabled in the Senate calling for the better treatment of American political prisoners in England. Agnes Bobertson, Dion BoucicauU's first wife, will oppose the granting of letters of administration to Mrs Boucicault (Miss Thorndyke). Suakim, Sept. 24; The natives are being expelled from Suakim, and grain is not allowed to go into the interior. The cause is fear of a raid by Daman Digna. . . Svw Xobk, September 25, News has been received from Central America that the town of Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama, is almost totally destroyed by fire. > Pabis, September 25. The Comte da Paris admits that he intrigued with Boulanger for the restoration of the monarchy. He states that he is not ashamed of the part he played, and sought to utilize Boulanger to divide the Bepnblio. Zanzibae> September 25. Niae Germans landed at Vitu despite the opposition of the natives. Immedi&t e)y they landed quarrels ensued between them and the natives. The Germans used their rifles, where upon the natives attacked them and killed eight of their number.