CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 78, 18 December 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric telegraph.— Copyright C l*kC ti tINITKI) I'RKSS AV-.OCIATIOV.) a London. December 15. Fearing the 'fcoal trade is leavihg Loridon, the shipping federation has provided permanent porters to the coal steamers in the docks. Lord Carrington speaking at the installation of Prince Albert "Victor, as Grand • Master of Berkshire, predicted that Australia would ever remain loyal to Eng.larfaV - ... ; ,v . ..- It is asserted that many of the Portuguese volunteers for Africa finding the Government are indisposed to accept their services have withdrawn... ... . : _. ■.-.■■ A cargo of New Zealand wheat on passage, has been sold at 36 * 4|d. Dr Comil. of Paris, who has been investigating Dr Koch's consumptive cure, considers it produces fever, and its potency is terrible. Dr Gerbardt, Berlin, instances a case where the patient's iung3 and larynx become so inflamed that tracheotomy had to be resorted to. The method, he thinks is capricious in its action, and jears will elnpse before a radical cure of palionts is effected. The reprrts ot the medical gentlemen from London, New York, and Rome, who have been enquiring into the cure, are favourable to Dr Koch's treatment. December 16. Sir Frederick George Miln6r, Conservatiye, has been elected for the constituency of Basse law, rendered vacant by the fatal accident to Mr William Beckett. The majority for Sir Frederick was 728. Washington, December 14. The Indians are massed round a place called Pine Ridge, where their chief was captured by the Government troops. Rome, December 16. The Pope is seriously ill. New York, December 16. Sitting Bull and other Sioux chiefs have been killed after desperate fighting with a body of police. President Harri*son expects that in consequence of the death of the chiefs, the trouble with the Indians will soon be at an end. Paris, December 16. The Panama Canal concession has been extended by the Republic of Colombia. Hono KoMO.December 16. The Emperor of China has determined to receive foreign envoys in February.