CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 136, 9 May 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 8. An English nobleman is reported to have won a quarter of a million francs at Monte Carlo iv one coup. Influenza is spreading through London to an alarming extent. Adamson, Bell and Co., China House, haye suspended payment. The liabilities are £200,000. . Thirty members of the House of Com mons are down with influenza. " '•' It is stated that Mr Justice Butt has resigned. The cruiser Mildura, one of the Australian squadron, broke down on a ten days' cruise. Armstrong's firm asserts that the appliances of the gun which exploded at Queenscliff are identical with those used and approved of by the War Office. Judge Smith has written to the Speaker ; announcing the sentence on Captain Verney. Mr Goschen, on Tuesday, moves his .expulsion from the. House. Lord Chancellor Halsbury is appealing for £100,000 to enable the Church and the Salvation Irmy to extend their operations in the colonies. The death in announced of Mr Thomas Rare, the inventor of Hare's system of Parhaiuentary representation . The Russian Government threatens to withdraw its gold credit from London and Paris, but if they do so the Kothschilds will collect sufficient bullion to teplace the amount withdrawn. Pabis, May 7 The Customs Committee has decided that reductions m the tax on flour and coin shall operate for one year. Washington, May 7. A revolution has broken out in Costa Rica. The Grand Jury of Louisiana ignored tbe Italian Consul's report on' the personal history of the men who were lynched, and the Consul intends to send it to fi,oine. It is expected that serious complications will arise in consequence of the refusal of the . Grand Jury to indict the lyuchers or take notice of the report. Owing to dissensions among the managers it is stated that the Chicago World's Fair is likely to be abandoned. . The Press of the United States endorses the refusal of the grand jury to indict the New Orleans lynchers. Received, May 9, 10.15 a.m. London, May 8. The Australian cruiser Mallaroo has finished a successful trial cruise. Brussels, May 8. One hundred thousand men, principally miners, are out on strike and disturbances attended with much violence are frequent. New York, May 8. Detective O'Malley, who was indicted last month on a charge of being agent of the Mafia (Sicilian secret society) , denies the existence of the society in New Orleans. The Chilian rebel steamer Itala, which' was seized by the United States Govern ment while loading arms in San Diego, in Lower California, has sailed away with the American Marshall on board.