CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 66, 20 November 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright fI»KH UNITED PHKSS ASS.QCI ATION.) Lonion, November 17. Mr Parnell has issued instructions to whip up a full attendance of the Irish ' party at the beginning of the session for < one combat, first and last, on the great . issues still pending. The Irish party is - opposed to his resigning. < The survivors of H.M.S. Serpent re- i port that she struck at 10 o'clock at ' night. The officers obeyed orders with i perfect coolness fof an hour, when the i Commander, seeing the case was hopeless ' released them from discipline. ' The Agents-General have agreed that : It is advisable that the colonies should be : allowed the option of remaining out of all ; commercial treaties-between Great Britain and other Powers. They advise the abrogation of the clause precluding preferential fiscal treatment of British good* in the colonies. They intend to ask th#ir respective Governments to make the wishes of the colonies in the matter known. A Koch ward is being opened in a Birmingham hospital. Mr Bradlaugh visits Australia in the autumn, Mr Henry Irving has also promised to . visit the colonies in a year. Sara Bernhardt is preparing the costumes for the opening in Melbourne in June. The Pall Mall Gazette says that it is intended to increase the amount of Baring Bros.' guarantee to £15.000,00' V ' Pabis, November 19. I In the Chambers of Deputies, M. Laur ; attacked the Bunk of France for assisting the Bank of England. M. Rourier, the Minister of Finance, declined to allow the matter to be discussed. BsauN, November 17. The hotels in this city are rapidly filling with consumptive patients anxious to try Dr Koch's specific. Niw Yobk, November 17. Bankers have decided to issue a loan of 10,000,000 dollars neon certificates to banks needing the aid of the clearing house. The junior partner of a- New York firm of brokers has bees detected in forgeries Amounting to 850,000 dollars.