CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 91, 24 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

•: By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PKIC I'NITKIJ IM»K>S ASSOCIATION..) London, January 21. Queen Victoria, and President Carnot will open the telephone from London to Paris in March. Details of the dispute over Mani a.and, in East Africa, show that the Portuguese were cleverly prevented from usurping the right over the country through D'Andrade. The Portuguese commandant asserts ho was disarmed and kiduapped without a shadow of an excuse. The Bothchilds have been offered the Russian conversion of a loan of twelve and a half millions. Frost has severely damaged the wheat crops of the Continent. The Duke of Bedford committed suicida. The verdict at the inquest was temporary insanity, caused by pain. Trial trips of the Australian cruisers Bingarooma and Tauranga have developed defects in torpedo and gunnery tittings, which will delay their being com-

missioned for a month. The election for the Hartlepool seat in the House of Commons, rendered vacant by the death of Mr T. Richardson, Liberal Unionist, took place to-day, resuiting m the return of Mr Furnees, a Home .Rule supporter. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,032,000 quarters ; for the Continent, 708,000. Best mutton tallow, 27s to 6d ; ditto beef, 25s 6d to 265. Mr W. O'Brien told an interviewer that the difficulty was practically settled on conditions that he thought would prove satisfactory to all parties in Great Britain. Mr Parnell intends to appoint a delegate to visit Australia on his behalf. The efiect of the strike is most disastrous to trade, the loss already being estimated at half a million. Bkblijj, January 20. The Emperor is making overtures to Bismark. It is reported that the Emperor admits that there is a foundation for the report about his disarmament proposals. He believes the introduction of smokeless powder will render war impossible. Washington, January 21. Secretary Blame is mobilizing the United States forces. He denies the report that he would agree to allow free access to Behring Sea. Bandits derailed a train in Texas, and stole twenty thousand dollars. Pabis, January 21. Fifty thousand people are out of work in Paris owing to the frost. The Chamof Deputies is voting immense sums for their relief. ' Yokohama, January 21. The Japanese Parliament House has been destroyed by fire. Antwerp, Janunry 21. At the wool sales to-day 4300 bales , were offered, of which 3200 bales were sold, including 360 bales of Australian wool out of 500 bales oftered. The attendance was limited, and owing to the small quantities offered, prices have fallen 10 centimes on those realised at the October sales. St. Petersburg, January. 22 By an explosion in Jasnovoda Colliery, near Azoif, a hundred miners were killed aud many injured.