CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 102, 19 February 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electrfe Te'egraph.— Copyright (PBII 'UNITED 'PUKs>S ArsaOCI AVION.) London". February 17. Offers have been made to take up the Soixth Australian loan, but the terms are calculated to create a difficulty on the Exchange. An impression is gaining ground that if the minimum of the proposed "Victorian loan is fixed at 97 it will be successfully floated. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Morley's motion censuring the Executive for its action at Tipperary, was defeated by 320 to 245. The contending. Irish Parties have agreed that the Parliamentary Fund of £36,000 shall be devoted to th& relief of tenants. While a clerk of the Binkot Scots land was collecting n cheque at the National PrbriMcial Bank of England, a thief stole his satcheil containing £12,---000 in notes and escaped. Mr Justin McCitrihy, who holds Mr Egan's shares in the United Ireland newspaper is seeking to secure control of that japer Sir Charles Dilke delivered a lecture at | Brussels on the conditions of labour' in Australia. One result of the recent strike was that workmen were taking an active interest in politics. Hostility to the Chinese would compel Great Britain to renounce her treaty obligations. In his opinion it would be better to entirely exclude the Chinese than to \ have the necessity forced on them in the future of protecting the Chinese from violence. The Thames lightermen have- struck work in sympathy with the other waterside Unions. The Unionist leaders assert that the Australian Unions are prepared to block Federation owned ships on their arrival in Australia. The World alleges that the Emperor William of Germany is suffering from cancer in the ear and throat, wliicli accounts for the imtableness displayed by by him of late. New York, February 17. Intelligence has been" received that' the rebels are marching on Santiago, the capital of Chili. It is said that only a few towns remain faithful to President Balmaceda.