CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 155, 25 June 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright fPfclt UNITED PtfhSS ASSOCIATION.) •Londoit, June 23. Mrs Grimwood's pension is to be made the same as that granted Mrs Quinton, at £300 per annum. The Chatham train came into; collision with another, and 35 men of the Royal Engineers, who were passengers,* were seriously injured. Bishop Moorhouse is suffering from a severe attack of influenza. Several of the London newspapers are •• burning " New Zealand, probably in - view of the loan conversion scheme which Mr William Lidderdale, governorof the Bank of England, favours. The general opinion in City fiuancial circes is that the cloud which has been hangingovercolonial credit for some time past, is lifting. June 22. At the wool sales New Zealand merinos are realising low .prices; otherwise, the wool market is steady. The Shaw. Savill and Albion" Company are asking 2^ per cent insurance on dairy produce shipped for England in the Colony, the Company guaranteeing the condition of the produce. , At the wool sales to-day prices were slightly easier.. The United British Women's Emigration Society has expressed its willingness to pay half the cost of sending domestic seryants to Tasmania and elsewhere. Sir E. Braddon, AgenUGeneral of Tasmania has agreed to deliver an address to the dociety on the 13fch July. Six hundred oases of apples, e\ steamer Otarama from New Zealand, have been ' sold at from 7s 6d to 9s per case. Valpabaiso, June 23. The Esmeralda landed fiffcvpf her crew at the island ot Lobos, seized all the provisions, and murdered the natives who resisted. Rome, June 23. Dnring a Socialist Riot at Bologna five .peasants were killed and twenty wounded. The leader of the rioters was rescued after being arrested. - „ St. Pistebsbubg, June 23. - .The Russian authorities are preventing the Jews from leaving Warsaw. Hundreds who' were stopped on the frontier have returned to their domiciles.