CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 93, 29 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER UNITED PltKriS ASSOCIATION.) . London, Junu.ury26. In the House of Commons Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, in answer to a question, stated he was quite satisfied with the manner in which the inquest on the Duke of Bedford had been conducted. Mr W. H- Smith is considering the propriety ot inviting the colonies to cunfer with the Imperial Government on the question of establishing a Customs Union, with a view to the protection of trade, also upon Imperial defence. At a meeting in Edinburgh .it. was den termined to supply funds freely in sur» port of the strikers. A quantity of goods and minerals lying uncovered at Calderbank station were set on fire by the ignition of a stock of paraffin. Mr Matthews promised a deputation of shipowners to provide police protection in order to prevent disturbances, and drafts • of constables will be detailed immediately for duty. The practice of co-operation among dockers is growing. It is found that the wages are higher, and work is got through more quickly. f Berlin, January 26. The German Government intend to place a gunboat on the Zambesi and give moral support to England. January 27. Professor Liebann has made a discov cry of tul'erele bacilli in the liood of a patient after a few injections of Dr Koch's lymph. This is considered to support Professor Virchew's criticisms of Dr Koch's lymph. New York, January 26. A blizzard is raging on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. New York and Boston are isolated, all the wires having been wrecked. Damage has been done to the extent of a million dollars, 1.. . . ' <