CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 87, 13 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (l'Elt IINITKU riU-.Sri A-joOOIATION.) London, Jauuavy 9. The St. James' Gazette asserts that General Booth lent Mr W. T. Stead £5000 out of the Salvation Army funds to purchase Mr George Newnes r interest iv the Review of Reviews. ' January 10. It is reported that the Victorian loan of £2,450,000 will be issued next week, with a probable minimum of 98 to 99. The bankers doubt its. immediate issuoy and consider it would be better to await the result of the Cape loan. The Admiralty haye decided to increase the strength of the Nayy forces by 6000 officers and- men. A flour ring with a capital of £2,000,---000 is projected in the North of England. In a letter to the Liberal candidate for Hartlepool Mr Gladstone announced his opposition to an immediate amendment ,of the electoral laws by the introduction of the one man one yote system. With regard to Irish affairs he said he would pursue the same policy as heretofore disclosed by him. A Liverpool firm is building four steamerp for the Australian trade Tallow — Medium mutton, 26s 6d; i ditto beef, 255. At the sale of Australian woolled sheepskins there was a good attendance of Home arid foreign buyers. The bidding was fair, with average competition,'present prices being maintained. The B.M.S. Aorangi left Plymouth today for New Zealand, via way ports. St. Pbtebsbuhg, January 9. Thirty thousand Russian Jews are emigrating to Brazil An edict has been issued ordering all Jews to be expelled from the Caucasus provinces. January 10. - The Russian Government is supplying Servia with great quantities of arms and a sufficient number of pontoons to enable Servia to throw sixty thousand troops on the Hungarian side of the Danube in two hours. Zanzibar, .January 10. Emm Pasha has fortified his station at Victoria Nyanza, and is retiring to take up the governorship of the German territory at Dar-es-Salaceam. Lisbon, January 10. The Queen of Portugal and many patrician ladies, are arranging a solemn mass for the success of the Mozambique Expedition. Pabis, January 10. The Mayor of Toulon has been sentenced to fire years imprisonment on a charge of procuring abortion.