GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 88, 15 January 1891, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric; Teiegraph.— Copyright ( TKII U NITUD IMttSSS ASnOCI A.TiO.V.) ; "■ ■ London, January 12. Dr Allen has inspected the hospitals on the (Jeutiueut, and seen Dr Koch's assistant, with whom details of the consumption remedy were discussed. He sails for the colonies to-day. Dr Magee, Biahop of Peterborough, has been appointed Archbishop of York. Mr Paruell has been served with a writ for an alleged libel on Dr Tauuer, member for Mid Cork. The Duke of Somerset is xiead. Sir G. Berry, Agent-U-eneral of Victoria, is reticent, as to the date of the' issue of the new loan. The Antwerp wool sales are fixed.for the 20th aud 21 st. 4700 bales have been catalogued, of which 500 are Australian. The Thames is icebound; . There are eight inches of ice on the Serpentine in Hyde- Park. A thaw has set in both England and on the Continent. January 13. The death is announced of .'BaronHausdinau, the re- constructor of Pun's. Mr Balfour's Irish Fund has increased to JMO.OOa General Booth has increased the sum which ho considers necessary to have in hand from ±,100,000 to £130,000 ; aud he also asks that the whole of some one country for the purpi.'Sos of the projected colony, shall be place J entirely under his control. Washington, January 12. Advices from the .North- West report that Ihe Indians are marcliing toward the Pine Ridge Agency, evidently with the intention of surrendering. The situation is critical, owmjj to the difficulty of disarming iheni, and it is feirwJ ihtit iUe former scenes of mas' sacra may be re-encted. Experiment* are beiug made in different parts of the United States to test the feasibility of producing 'rain at will by an explosion of dynamite among the clouds. Vienna, January 12. An avalanche killed 17 people atLivna; in Bosnia, New Yobk, January 13.: The Chamber of Commerce condemns free coinage. Beblin, January 13. It has been announced in the Prussian Diei that the secret of Dr Koch's remedy will shortly be made public.