CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 49, 11 October 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER UNITED PRBSS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 8. The Standard says that Walter Cole's patent bucter-churn is the most remarkable novelty on exhibition at the Islington Dairy Show. Fears are spreading because of the alarmist reports regarding the solvency of well known financial houses, and the Stock Exchange is excited in consequence. Since the provisions of the McKinley Tariff Bill have come into operation the trade between Canada and England has increased. Shares in the. Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand are quoted at New Zealand Shipping .. Company £5 ; Shaw, Savill Company, .£lO 10s. Tallow—Best mutton, 28s to 28s 6d ; ditto beef, 27s to 27s 6d. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,044,000 quarters, and for- the Continent 738,000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 17,056,000 bushels. ' A cargo of Australian wheat has been sold at 355. The wool market is recovering, and a better spirit prevails. Price are now at the highest point since series opened. '■ ; October 9. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, British Ambassador at Teheran, is in a critical state of health. * . . ... It is stated that a number of Fenian prisoners will shortly be pardoned. MrAi J.Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, characterises the statement that I the potato blight will result in a partial famine m some of the Irish districts as absurb, but promises that the Government will assist those who may need ass st n ;e through it. It is expected that the McKinley Tariff Bill will injure Sheffield .to the extent of per annum,' and will result in throwing 2000 cutlers out of work. v Mr Howard Vincent, ;M.P. for Sheffield in a letter to the Times, urgeß Great Britain to combat the McKinley Bill by preferential treatment to the colonies. The Times deprecates such a course, and considers it impossible to adopt schemes of retaliation; October 10. The Hospital at Bermuda is filled with men of the Grenadier Guards sick with enteric fever. Several have died, and it has been found necessary to omit the customary firing over the graves owing to the. depressing effect on the patients. The prospectus of the Giffard Gun Company is issued with a capital of a quarter of a million. Ottawa, October 9. Mr Launer, leader of the Canadian Liberal party, asserts that the only salvation for Canada is unrestricted reciprocity with the United States. The Opposition intend to fight next election on this issue, and are' confident of success. ■■'■'■ ■■; ; '■'•• In the course of an interview to-day, Sir Charles Tupper, in referring to the McKinley Tariff Bill, declared that Canada would establish a line of steamers between Vancouver Island and Australia, which was the quickest route of transit from the colonies to England. Rome, October 9. Speaking at Florence, Signor Crispi said it was essential for Italy to suppress the Irredentists (a political organisation promoted in 1878) ; also for her to adhere to the Triple Alliance.