CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 8, 18 July 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright fPEIt UNITED PUICSS ASSOCIATION.) London. July 15. At a convention of Parnellites at Tralee, a gentleman named McCarthy, who was in the chair, said they preferred Balfour and the priests to coercion. Mr Samuel Cunliff Lister, connected with the Manningham Silk Works at Bradford, has been raised to the Peerage as Baron Masham. Tiiere are rumours of an impending crisis in banking circles in the city It is stated that no arrangement has been found possible with regard to Mv« rietta and Co.'s liabilities, which gives rise to an uneasy feeling. Russia has withdrawn eight hundred thousand in gold. July 16. The Emperor of Germany requested the Duke of Cambridge to convey to the army his appreciation of the soldierlike bearing of the troops, He was much struck by the efficiency of the volunteers and militia. Bishop O'Dwver has denounced Parnell. Lord Salisbury, speaking at the United Service Club, denounced the one-man-onenvote proposal as unfair and as implying an attack upon the oldest franchise of tue colony. Washington, July 15. The Democratic Labour Convention of Ohio has nominated Mr Campbell as Governor. It demanded equal rights and unlimited coinage of gold and silver. The Navajos Indians in Arizona have revolted. Ottawa, July 16. Five leading Canadian officials hare been suspended on the ground of illegally obtaining extra pay. Great sensation has been caused by a disastrous fire in Montreal. Twenty mills, shops, and hotels were laid m ruins. July 16. A tremendous sensation has been created in Quebec. The Civil Treasury is reported to be empty, and the provin* oial police and firemen have to go unpaid San Fbancisco, j aly 19. A fierce drunken affray has occurred at San Die^o. A number of the sailors of the United States cruiser Charleston, aided by some civilians, resisted the arrest of one of their comrades. The police used their clubs, killing one sailor and fatally wounding another. Two of the police were badly injured. Massowah, July 15. Cholera is raging here. The heat is terrific. New Obleans July 15. The families of the Sicilians .who were lynched are claiming damages from the city. Vienna, July 15. The Austrian frontier guards drove the refugee Jews back at the point of the bayonet, and compelled them to return to Poland. .Received, July 18, 10.20 a.m. Pabis, July 17. President Carnot has signed a decree creating large French Colonising Companies. A crisis is threatened in the. Chamber of Deputies owing to its refusal to postpone for a month the interpellation of M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, relative of the refusal of Germany to grant passports to French commercial travellers in Alsace and Lorraine. Germany explains that passports are only refused to French political agitators. The Chamber of Deputies has increased he duty on bacon to 20 francs with a view to rescind the decree excluding American pork. There are signs of the French railwaw strike fizzling out. Washington, July 17. Mr John Wanamaker, PostmasterGeneral, is inviting tenders for fast steamers, American owned or manned, to carry mails between the United States, England, and Belgium. New Yobk, July 17. Intelligence has been received that the insurgents routed Balmaceda's troops with great slaughter at Huasco on the Bth instant, and if they had pressed the advantage gained they might have captured tho whole Goveenment army. The fighting was renewed on the 13th, in which the insurgents, after an engagement which lasted many hours, took to headlong fight, thus losing the ground they had previously acquired. Ottawa, July 17. A Canadian cruiser consfioated seven American fishing boats which were fishing in Canadian water. The crews were taken off the boats and landed on Dog Island. The incident has caused great excitement. Mexico, July 17. An epidemic of yellow fever is raging in Vern Cruz and the people are fleeing from the city.