GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 85, 8 January 1891, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric Te'egmph. — Copyright ( I'BK WN ITUJ) I'!IK>S ..ASSOCIATION.) London. January 5. Mr Glftd»tone : has ; csued a denial to the report that he is about to retire. The suffering iv the East End from cold and starvation is appalling. The relief afforded is quite- inadequate. The body of the late Mr A. W. Kinglake will be cremated. Two thousand labourers at Swineford, County Mayo, demand work at the railway relief works, and threaten if it is not given them to stop those at present engaged. BL.M. ships Taiyranga and Ringarooma, two of the Australian cruisers, will be commissioned on the 20th inst, and afterwards manned at Devonport, their complement being 212 men each. Mullett, one of the Irish Invincibles, convicted of taking part in the Phoenix Park murders, has been released from gaol. General Booth .» declares that he has been offered millions of acres of land in the colonies for the purpose of carrying out his colonisation scheme. • The strikers at Motherwell, who had been ejected, created a riot and the assistance of the police and military had to be evoked. The police charged the rioters while the military fired on them with blank cartridges. Shops have been sacked at Blantyre. Government are arranging with the Admiralty to take entire charge of all guns and stores of the fleetj'the War Office retaining only the land services. " """'■' '- BiJblin, January 4. ! Dr Koch is conferring with the Gov- ' ernment as to the expediency of- disclosing his secret. January 5. Germany has annexed the Marshall Islands Group, north of the Equator, lying east of the Caroline Islands. New Yobk, January 5The census shows the United States birth-rate to be 2,000.000 below the previous decade. The fire which gutted Hermann's Theatre in the Fifth Avenue and injured Sturtevrttit House originated through the electric wires. The Hfiwuian Government is parley, ing with the (iorernmenD of Canada for improved trade relations. Manila, January 5. The natives of the Caroline Islands attacked the Spanish troops, but were repulsed under the heavy fire of the gatling guns, and lost heavily. Washington; January 5. Mrs Seldon, an American Lady, intends to explore Central --.Africa with a bodyguard of soldiers and negresses.