CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 47, 4 October 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric ' Tel egraph.— Copyright (PER UNITED PKHSS ASSOCIATION.) London, October I. A syndicate, including the Marquis of Hartington *nd Messrs Baring and Rothsciiild, have offered to build a line of fast Atlantic steamers provided the tine is subsidised by the Canadian Government'. Sir Tliomas George Freake, Bart, has been arrested on a charge of decoying a gentleman named Fdward Gibson into the cellar of on empty mansion. It is alleged that while there lie obtained from Gibson a key to the latter's locker in the St. George's Club, and removed therefrom and destroyed a number of letters written by Gibson's mistress, and also a number of her photo?. Freake is also charged with forging the name of Gibson to a telegram. A joung woman named Gertrude Crown, who, it is thought, has relations at Waafcaratta, Victoria, has committed suicide at Hereford. She suffered under an hysterical delusion that she had been seduced on the Toy age to England. At the wool sales faulty scoured were slightly easier, other sorts firm. Tallow— Best mutton, 28s to 28s Gd ; beef, 27s to 27s 6d. ' The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,220,000 | quarters, and for the Continent 772,1)00 i quarters. The American risible supply. is estimated at 16,832,000 bushels. The Dockers' Congress hold that it is impolitic to block Australian ships, as itmight lead to an immediate conflict «ri(h the shipowners' federation. It is decided to increase the fighting fund to £60,000. The Congress favours the creation of a Loard of arbitration. At the Warwick meeting to-day the Reamington Handicap was won by the Australian raeehorse i£ingmaster. Awe*, October 2. A epidemic of cholera has broken out here. Constantinople, October 1. Moussa Bey, Kurdish chieftain, is imprisoned here. Rome, October 1. His Holiness the Pope has expressed foundland fisheries dispute, his willingness to arbitrate in the New* Washington, Oct. 1. President Harrison has signed the Tariff Bill. The Equitable Fire Insurance Company buyi the American business of the South British and .National Fire Insur ance Companies on terms favourable to the latter, Beblin, October 2. The Socialists in Germany have formulated a policy reviving the " Gotha programme" (exalting labour) approved at the Socialist Congress in 1875. Madbid, October. 2 Official statistics show that they were 1000 deaths from cholera in Spain last month. Vienna, October 2. The Emperor of Germany received an ovation on his arrival here.