CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 106, 28 February 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyrfght (I'Klt VNITI.D P.tKsS A-snOGIATION.) London-. February 25, Mr Prouse. of Wellington T sang the solos in " Elijah," at St James' Hall, in place of a gentleman who was to have taken the chieJ part. His appearance was a success. Edwin Walter, timber merchant, of London, has failed for nearly £400,000. The Agents-General ii>tend to wait on Lord Knutsford to urge hku to push on legislation in the matter of the investment of trust funds. City influences are strongly hostile to the proposals.Mr O'Brien has been -served with a writ for seventeen thousand pounds, the amount of costs in his- libel action against Lord Salisbury. Mr Balfour denies that Messrs Dillon and O'Brien are broken in health, Tiie anti-Parneliite party hold a demonstration at ■ Manchester on March 7. A thousand free labourers have offered their services. The shipping offices are opening a register for non-union dockers. Half of the first penny levy on tonnage belonging to the Shipping Federation is still unspent. Work is at present proceeding quietly. Ux hides, 3§d to 3f i per ft New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's shares £2 15s; Robert Campbell and Sous, £5 os ; Dul^ety and Co., ijj. .. I'aeis, February 25. Dr Bernheim, of Paris, claims to have effected wondi-rful cures in tuberculosis by the transfusion of goat's blood. Beblin, February 26. Professor Liebrich explained to the Berlin Medieal Society that his tuberculosis remedy is u solution «-f cantlioridate potass, and is safer and uiore rffeciiye thau that discovered by 'Piofessor J£och. ' . " - . • Tlomk, -February 25. The Governments of Germany and Austria have assured Signor Rudini, the Italian Premier, that they axe not displeased at the prospect of an improvement in the relations between France and Italy, which they look upon as an - additional ' guarantee of peace. . . , - Washington, February 25 Floods in Arizona have render thous- • ands homeless. Cairo, February 25. i The reported flight of Osman Digna is • disbelieved here. The French Ambassador at Cairo is tc ' be replaced by a more energetic official. ■ i Ottawa, February 25. L Sir R. Cartwright denounces th( [ charges of treason .against him as im< , pudent calumnies, ' " "

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