CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 60, 6 November 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ , - By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright CI'KIt UNITED PttlC.sS A^nOCIATION.) London, November 4. Mr Patrick O'Brien, M. P. for Tipperary North, has been imprisoned for contempt of court in photographing, by means of a detective camera, a witness who was giving evidence in the Tipperary cases. Herr Cederkranz, the newly-appointed Chief Justice of Samoa, has arrived in London, and will shortly leave for Sjamoa Before leaving he will have an interview,, with the Marquis of Salisbury and the German and American ambassadors. The sellers of New Zealand Estate Company's debentures complain that the directors are delaying special settlement. Lisbon, November 4. It is asserted that the modus yivendi between Portugal and Great Britain k arranged on a basis of the freedom of the Zambesi. Paris, November 4. The official inquiry made into the reported failure of the French beet crop proves the statements to have been largely exaggerated. Bkblin, November 3. A society is beine established for the purpose of supplying Dr Koch's consumptive lymph to the poor free of cost. San Fbanci o>, November 4. A destructive fire has taken place here, and damage don* to the extent of a million and a half dollar*. The Burlington Grand Hotel was among the premises destroyed. Information has reached here that Sister Rose Gertrude has abandoned the leper Station st Molokai, and taken a situation as governess in Honolulu. Vienna, November 4. It is feared here that the Archduke John has been drowned during the voyage he was making to Valparaiso. THE LATEST. London, November 4. The underground electric railway was successfully opened to-day at Clapham, a suburb of London. The Prince of Wales performed the opening ceremony. The City Central and Association of the Chamber of Commerce have carried a resolution that it is desirable that all imported dead meat should be labelled from whence it came when exposed for sale in the British markets. . General Booth hopes that _ within 18 months he will be in a position to send out weekly batches of settlers to the colo- : nies, which the Salvation Andy propose to establish in Australasia. The Secretary of the British Broken Hill Company expresses himself confident that the German process of treating ore will revolutionise the working of mines, Mr Balfour is at present on a visit to Donegal. enquiring into the effects of the potato blight, and received an ovation on his arrival. The Times states that the Canadian Government is willing to liberally subsidise the Pacific cable. Pabis, November 5. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day several members attacked the AngloFrench agreement with regard to the East African territory. M. Ribot defended the agreement entered into with England, and said the question was entirely distinct from Egyptian affairs.