CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 82, 30 December 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I'KH UNITED PKKSS ASSOCIATION.) Loxdoiv, December 20. The Rev R. Gregory has been appointed Dt-un of St. Paul's in succession Do the Rev VV. Church. The soundings which have been recently taken prove that bridging the English CLtunael will be easier than vras at first proposed. The dockowners have discharged all hands who have been employed by them less than a decade. Tho Powers are urging Portugal to avoid collision wita England over the African dispute. December 27. A dastardly attempt on the life of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, County Clare, was made to-day, when several shots were fired into hid house. The rev gentleman escaped with only slight injuries. Romr, December 25. The Italian Go rnment ispepano; to make a hostile Ueuiuudiration against Abyssinia. Pakis, December 25 The Cabinet is discussing the rumoured visit of the Emperor of Germany to j Paris and Cannes. It is doubted vhether the statement is correct, but should the Emperor made the visit a tuuiuit is predicted. A French loan of 700,000,000 francs (£28,000,000) will be issued on January 12th. St. Petbbsbubg, December 27. The Czarina is suffering from a nervous affection, and in consequence the Czar has recalled the Czarewitch. who is on a visit to India. Washington, December 28. It is asserted here that the American consular agents in Canada have cheated the Government to the extent of one million dollars, and also that they are in league with the exporters. The official census of the United States just laken gives the population as sixty* two and a half millions, showing an increase of over twelve millions since 1880. Manila, December 28 The Spanish troops bombarded and subdued the natives of Ponape, in the Caroline Islands, who had 32 killed. The American missionaries were removed from the island. Beblin, December 26. The German Freetraders propose that an International Freetrade Congress should he held, in the belief that Protection in Germany is tottering. The death is announced of Dr Heinrich Schliemann, the celebrated German archeologist and aut.ior aged 68. St Johas, December 26. The inhabitants of Newfoundland repudiate the reuewal of the modus vivendi with regard to the French shore, and de nounce Lord Kuutsford for asserting that such an arrangement will be satisfactory. Hong Kong. December 27, The steamer Shanghai has been burnt at Wu hu. a river port of China, on the river Yang^tzoKiang, and 200 Chiaeae perished in the flames.