GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 90, 20 January 1891, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (I'Klt UNIIKU I'll '•:•»:* ASSOCIATION.) London, January 17. The Serpenf.ne Eiver in Hyde Park is frozen so hard that vehicles are enabled to cross the ice. Europe has been re-visited by a remarkable frost, and at Naples a foot of snow fell. ■ - • The shipment _of New Zealand butter, ex steamer Bimutaka, is realising from 90s to 112s per cwt. Sir F. D. Bell is making arrangements to shortly couvert the remainder.of the old high-priced New Zealand loans. -The Times states that the absence of a syndicate enabled the inventors to obtain the Cape loan at a cheaper price than they otherwise would. The Countess Bussell is instituting proceedings for divorce on the grounds of cruelty. The Amalgamated Society ofßailway Servants haa'/sent a second donation of £3000 to assist the men -on strike in Edinburgh. Mr Bradlaugli M.P. for Northampton, is in critical health, and his condition iB causing anxiety to his friends. The Russian Commission on Petitions has returned a memorial forwarded by | the Lord Mayor of London protesting against the treatment of the Jews in Eussia, Valparaiso, January 17. - The President is accused of committing uhconstitutional'acts. : The rebels are assembling at Entreros. Zanzibab, January 17. It is 'reported that Colonel Wissman has attacked the Machonabas stronghold, situated in the dense jungle,. but without success. Emm Pasba is in constant hostility with the Arabs, and has killed many of them., . , , Pekin, January 17. The Emperor of China gives an audience to the foreign * Ministers, notwith : standing that the Court is in mourning for hia father, whose death was announced recently. ' ]-'•'-' General Li Hung Chang has been summoned to the highest position in the Empire.