CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 61, 8 November 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I»KU UNITED IMIKSS A^bOOI ATION.) London, NOvernbe'r 6. • Cardinal Manning has written a letter of Mympathy io General Booth, in which he says that every one is entitled to work f-T bread. A deputation, which included Mr T. Archer, Asieni -General for Queensland, and Mr E. "M." -Nelson, of Ni-laon Bros., waited upon Mr E. Staniiope. Secretary for War, to»day, and asked him' to' re- " move the restriction wbich had been placed on frozen beef being admitted into the contracts for supplying the army , with, meat. Mr Stanhope promised to give every consideration to the request. ! The. personality of the late Earl of Carnarvon ha* been sworn at £313.000. The : property in George street, Sydney, is tobe allowed to accumulate until hia heir, Lord Porehester, attains the age of 35, when he will inherit it. The other property of the late Earl, situated both in the colonies and in Wales, becomes the property of his widow, during her life, and afterwards reverts to his second son..'--.- ••';■,. . •'' ■■'■• , - ■-.-■;•■; -.*.-■; ; The New . Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw,; Saville Company hhve each made assignments for tbe despatch' of one steamer to the colonies every -month.:' The new arrangement will come in force in January next., •y. ; ■-'«.: V ■** Otta WAi November 6. ?. Mrs Birchall, whose husband has been condemned to death on a charge of murdering an Engiish tourist,, his presented a petition to the Minister of Justioe praying for a reprieve. The Minister has promised to carefully consider: the evidence and submit a report to the Governor. ■..■■'.-... New York, November d. ...-.., O'Connor, the sculler, pronounces l Stansbury to be a much stronger and faster man than Kemp. -■ *: : ' The expedition to Logas, on the slave ooast (West Africa), fitted out by Mr Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, starts on Saturday. Commander Y. L, Cameron will have charge of the .expedition. The press is jubilant at the result of the elections being in favor of the Democrat., whioh they ascribe to the McKinley tariff. The Democrats have secured four seats in Pennsylvania. As the returns come in it is seen that the elections have resulted in an astound- . ing increase of members of the Democratic party in the southern, western and eastern.States. .The majority in favour of the Democrats is expected to be quite 150. Canada is jubilant at the defeat of the Republicans, and the prospect* of the revival ot-friendly trade relations with the DniteiioStites. d A ~ Ad Paris, November 6; I The French Customs Committee has approved the principle of a double tariff. Mr John Higginson, owner of the: Bolande mines iv New Caledonia, in a letter to De Temps, st&tes that Mr Ser* vice, of Victoria, is entirely wrong in thinking that the New Hebrides, would be overran with convicts if the islands were aunexed to France;' hot oa the other hand, he says it is probable that the transportation of recidivates would be . suspended if the . New Hebrides wholly belonged to France. ...„'.