CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 153, 20 June 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Te'egraph. — Copyright fPKIt UNITKI) PKISSS ASSOCIATION.) ,a London. June 17 . Tr is reported thnt the' .syndicate who took up the balance of the Queensland loan were allowed a discount of £50,000, wli oh practically reduces the average price below 88. . . Tlie rehearing of the Wif>demann-Wal-poleoase resulted in the plaintiff recovering £300 from Mr Wai pole for breach of promise and libel. ' The Princi-ss of Wales invites all Sng lishTwotnen to subscribe to the fund for Mrs Gritnwood, the Manipur heroine. # • June 18. Mr Spurgeonis ill.. He was suffering from influenza, and had a relapse Fever is raging among the crews yf the Mediterranean fleet. Some 200 men are prostrate. . ■ It is reported that Kussian. church agents, engaged in proselytising work, are employing wholesale bribery in the form of tjifts of lands to induce Armenians and Syrians to embrace ( the orthodox Greek taith. The Liberal leaders looks on Sir C« Dilke's return to public life with disfavour. , _ , , Mr De Oobain has preferred a request for a Couiinittee of the House of Commons to investigate the evidence that can be adduced against him. The Labour Commission held its first public sitting to»day the Earl of Derby presiding. Messrs .W. O'Brien and Justin McCarthy gave evidence on be* half of the Dockers' Union,, recommending an eight hours' limit' and the establishment of Arbitration Boards. • A strike of tailors is imminent. Of the total of £127,000 subscribed to« wards the Plan of Campaign, £3000 is unaccounted for. Twenty . thousand pounds was granted to tenants; £4t>,000 went in fees to lawyers and barristers; ' and about £40,000 was spent on new Tipper ary. Wool market is unchanged. PoßT'Axr-PEiKdK, June 18. Another revolution has taken place in' Hayti. During an emeute President Hip poly te was killed. , Berne, June 18 The Swiss Government has been granted unlimited credit to supply the needs of the sufferers by the tern bletram accident /near Basle. The work of the recovering the bodies from the riyer Birse is now proceeding. MaDbid, June 18 The Spanish Government is issuing a loan of two hundred and fifty millions pesetas (9f-dJ at 4 per cent. .New Yoek, June 18 The temperature is 100 in the shade. Several deaths have already been recorded from suustroke. Washington, June 17. Four hundred houses haye been destroyed by fire at Sea bright, in New Jersey. Hundreds of people were rendered homeless . - A train fell from a bridge into the Coom Rapids, lowa, and several persons were killed. A rain storm has washed away Hilton, in' lUbnois, and destroyed the crops in the surrounding district. Pabis, June 17. M. Turpin. the inventor of the ex plosive known as melinitej which is used in the French army for charging shells, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of £200 on the- charge of selling the secret to Sir W. Armstrong and Co • Captain Tripone, convicted of disclosing the secrets ef the War Office, was sentenced to five years and a fine of £120 June 19, The Chamber "of Deputies has approved the reduction of the corn duties. The new t.iriff will come into* operation on July 10th. Received, June 20, 10 a.m. London, June 19 In the House of Coalitions, while the Factory Bill limiting the" hours of working for women and children was under discussion, Mr S. C. Buxtoni M.P. for Popular moved an " amendment prohibiting children under eleven years of age being employed and that the age should 'be fixed at ten .years. After discussion Mr Burton's proposal was carried by a majority of sixteen.