CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 53, 21 October 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Eleotrfc Telegraph. — Copyright (PJSR UNITED PRK9B ASSOCIATION.) London; October 18. The financial tone in the city is healthier Professors Huxley and Hooker will not be able to attend the meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science at Christehareh nexfc jear. It is generally considered that the taxation of Queensland is fatal to an influx of capital into that colony. Messrs O'Brien and Dillon assert that H.B.H. the Prince of Wales is favourable to Home Bale. It is averted thay they desired to visit the Vatican, but his Holiness the Pope deolined to recetre them. Messrs O'Brien and Dillon, it la asserted will be arrested should they venture iato Canada. The whole of the delegation sails from Havre on Saturday. A fumd is being raised in England for subsidising the If atiosal Land League. The Portuguese Chief Commissioner at Mozambisjne notifies his Government that the ratifying of the Anglo- Portuguese Convention will alone save the Portuguese territory. Ootober lft General Booth will shortly pay a visit to Australia. Mr Balfour, speaking at Newcastle justified the use of batons by the police upon Mr Harrison and others at Tipperary. He charged Mr Morley, who also was prevent, with grossly misrepresenting the occurrence, and declared he preferred to believe the statements of the police to those of Mr Morley and the Parnellitits. The Economist insists that if the separation of Northern Queensland is granted, Lord Knutsford must take steps to effectually secure the existing rights of the bondholders who are materially interested. Nbw Yobk, October 18. A circular issued by the Treasury De< partment of America permits the introduction of Australian hides on proof that they are free from infeotion. Bbxtssb&s, October 19. Three thousand colliers at Charleroi have struck for an increase of wages.