CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 77, 16 December 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I'Klt UNITB"I> PHKSS AS«OCIAf ION.) ... . -.:-;.■ ■,-.., London, December 14.v England and Germany are dissuading Italy from occupying Tripoli. It is reported bere that Sir H- A. Atkinson.: Premier of. New Zealand, sue ceeds Sir F. Dillioo Bell as AgentGeneral ;.-..■ . ■-■'<. ! The Koch process is not proving so successful as at first. ■■ . : The second death occurred afters third inocculation. S( veral, other patients under treatment are in a dangerous oniition. ?ir » J.osepJi Edgar Bnehm, B. A., the eminent sculptor was fona.J dead in lii» studio to-day. , . ■ The steam pipes on board tho British ladia /Jompany's steamer j .* umna ,ex plnde , and the third engineer and eight of the crew.were bcaldod. . Three of the injured men are in a critical condition. ■ The captain and some of the passengers of .the -P. and O. Company's steamer Nepaul' deny the statements that the Lascar crew attempted to desert the ve»- . sel when . she 'Struck the, rocks at Plymouth Sound.,. „. . „ i ... , , : : ;• . .December J. 5. Sir Joseph .Whitwell. Pease is seeking an interview with the Czar . with reference to his ill-treatment of Jews in. Russia. ' The quantity of wool catalogued at the recent sales was 148,000 bales, of which 14,000 were held over. Eighty-five thousand bales were taken for export. Three 'of the men injured by 'the explosion of steam pipes on the Jumna are dead. Tallow — Medium mutton, 265 ; do beef, 255.- '/■:■-. , The English wheat market is lifeless, the Continental firm, and the American steady. New Zealand^Jonr— Patent, ex store, 24s 6d;\ Colonial .oats — Pine quality averages 26s,.*a^-coinmttn sorts Thaprincipal financial houses- in London'mteresfced in Queensland: stocks, have assured Mr Harold Heatton that'separation of the northern portion of Queensland will not in any way injure the bond holders if the northern .district undertakes to ' pay a fair share of the' debt. Two more of the men who were scalded by the explosion of sleanr-pipes on the s.s. Nepaul have succumbed to their injuries. A cargo of New Zealand wheat oo passage has been sold at 36* 4|d. '• • L,isbon, December 15. A mob attacked the British. Consulate at Quilimane, but the Portuguese! officials arrested the ringleaders. . , ■„-., The Government has decided to de- . pa eh a troop of artillery to Mozambique. • •: : New Yobk, December 14. The Indians have been overawedj Jund tranquihty is beins; restored. Mr Curtis Stoddart, an American banker, has been arrested oi a charge of embezzling the sum of six iniUionidollavs. Fekiw, Deecmber 13. A steamer off Honi; Kong has b en raided -by pimtos, wlio murdered the pfßcerKiind looted the Aesse.l. : Gunboats' have been sen tin pursuit of the pirates...; :. ; ;