CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 96, 5 February 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«■ P»y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright fI'EK UNITED PITKSS ASSOCIATION.) London-, February 3. Intelligence is to hand that the Venezuelan Government had seized the British barque Lydia Peschan. The Times states that Messrs Parnell and O'Brien proceed to America to collect funds in aid- of evicted tenants in Ireland ; also that Mr Dillon will surrender himself to the authorities to undergo the six month's imprisonment imposed on him by the Tipperary Bench on condition that the Irish party choose him as their , leader next session,' Mr "Justin McCarthy acting in that position meanwhile. The Standard declares that all the Liberal leaders, with the exception of Sir W. Harcourt, are willing to agree than an Irish Parliament shall have control of the police and the settlement .of the land, but insist on the right of the Imperial veto. The market is lukewarm over the South Australian loan, and the banks consider that a minimum of 98 ought to be sum-' cient for the proposed Victorian loan. Mr Goschen, Chancellor of Exchequer, declines to introduce the decimal system. Mr Gladstone's Religious Disability .Bill is causing many non conformist members to desert.

New York, February 3. 1 The Supreme Court has decided to hear the Canadian appeal against the seizure of a sealer carrying on her calling in the Behring Sea. The miners working at Carbon Hill, Alabama, have driven out the negroes working there. The latter stubbornly resisted, and in the struggle seventeen of their number were killed. Madrid, February 3. The elections have resulted in a great victory for the Government. Among the defeated candidates is the author of the Universal Suffrage Bdl, which was passed by the Congress in 'March, last, almost without opposition, and ratified by the Senate two months later. , Rome, February 2. Signor Crispi to : day tendered his resignation and it was accepted. Paris, February 2. The French press is jubilant at the defeat of Signor Crispi, which is regarded as an indication of the probahle failure of the Triple Alliance. The Supreme Council which decided in ' favour of recognising colonial trading companies, also recommend that they be permitted to employ convicts at French penal settlements in the Pacific. Berlin, February 3. The German South- West African Company, with a capital of one million pounds, has received a charter for the pur : pose of exploiting the Germany territory in south-west Africa.