CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 95, 3 February 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Tel egraph. — Copyright (PEK UNITKD PUKsS A"jt,OCI ATION.) London, January 31. The appeal case of Duncan v Enosrles was argued to clay. In August last Miss Gladys KnowJes, 2L years of age, and ot iin attractive appearance, was awarded £10.000 damages at the Lowes Assizes against Mr L. F. Duncan, editor and proprietor of the Matrimonial News, aged betwe. n 63 und 64, for a breach of promise of marriage, and it was from this.decision the later appealed. The Court ordered that the amount of damages be reduced to £6500, on condition that the costs in the action be paid by Mr Duncan within c-ne month, otherwise the verdict of the jury was to remain intact. The .".tatement that the conference of labour delegates had resolved to take immediate steps to paralyse the shipping trade until the Shipowners' Federation had abolished free labour ageucies, is denied. I he Caledonian Railway Company has offered strikers the same terms as the North British Company, and the men have agreed to accept them. Balfour's Irisli Fund amounts now to £42,000. February 1. Captain A. A. Hord. aide-de-camp to the Governor of Victoria, has been chosen Unionist candidate fur West Somerset. General Booth intends to open a receiving house and building to serve as a probationary institution where ' persons of both sexes will be traiuedfor employment in factories, and afterwards assisted to emigrate. A gentleman named Fleming, who sub scribed £1000, died, suddenly while congratulating the Salvationists. The fuud? now amount to £'100,< 5 00. Sir Charles Dilke is mentioned as a candidate for Northampton in Mr Bradlaugh's place. /\ Mr Bradlaugh's funeral will take place on Tuesday. The Australian cruiser Tauranga.will leave for the colonies in a fortnight. Vienna, February 1. Dr Sehrootter after many tests denies that Koch's lymph will enable a correct diagnosis to be made, and onthe other hand it often extends the operation of tuberculos. 'He a lmits, however, it will cure lupus and intestinal ulcers. Rome, January 31. The House of Deputies has, by a large majority, rejected the Government pro> posals for. an increase of duties on spirits, fcignor Crispi, the Premier, has announced that he will resign. -' " Pabisj January 31 . The Supreme Colonial Council has decided in favor of recognising colonising trading companies, but rendering them directly responsible to the Home Government. . Natal, January 31. A discovery has been made of further alluvial deposits, extending over a large area, in Mashonalund. Valparaiso, January 31. It is reported that Iquebue has been re-cap: uredfrom.the insurgents, and that the latter have suffered defeat at several places.' February 1. The rebels have captured Aneud. Presi dent Balmaceda is willing to retire if tin* blockade of Iquique •sn'i Vulpaaso is raised, otherwise a decisive battle is imminent. New Yobk, February 1. It is rumoured here that the Euglish and Italian fleets have made a demon stration before Valparaiso. _* The loss to British commerce by the interruption of trade is put at a million. The American Minister to Chili has b"en or.iered io withdraw if satisfaction is not givenGavernment have recaptured Pisaqua. Washington, February 1. Major McKmley succeeds Mr Windoin as Secretary to the Treasury. Brussels, February 1. The Belgians have had an engagement with slavers on the; Congo. ■ They killed thirty and released a thousand slaves. Calcutta, February 1. The rumour of the death of the Ameer of Afghanistan is denied.