CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 21, 18 August 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I'KU UNITHD PHK*S ASSOCIATION.) London. Angu-t 14 The Marquis of Salisbury's costs haying been paid, the Courb has annulled' Mr O'Brien's bankruptcy. Owing to the explosion on board H.M.S. Cordelia, the Admiralty has ordered the withdrawal of mark one 5-iuch guns as well as 6-iuch. Loi.d Lorgan has sold has sold his estate in Auujagh to the tenants for a quarter of a million sterling under the Lord Ashbourne Act. In a paper read before the Hygienic Congress to-day it was stated that fully 19,000 deaths from cancer had taken place in England last year. The Eev C. H. Spurgeon is weaker and refuses to pactake of food. .August 15. Tlie Russian inhibition has caused a geDcral n.seintbe vheai market. English b»s advanced a further sixpence; French one shilling and sixpence; German is active; red wmier, IVew York. Ill) cents Cargoes of wheat ex Lismore arid N ilii from LyiLellon. hare been sold forexoort to the Ooniioeot Liscnore's realised 40s, and Nitu's 40s 3d. August 17, There is no improvement in the condition of the Eev 0. H. Spurgeon. German millers are petitioning for an immediate abolition of the grain duties WAs>ai>GTON, August 15 Mr J. G. Blame, Secretary of State, is improving in health. The Eepublicans movement to nominate him for the Presidency is increasing. JSUKNOS A TEES, August 15. The Catholics at Argentueil propose to exhibit a Holy Coat to-mor-row, not . iciisianding that His Holiness the Pope has declared that the Holy Coat at Treves is the only genuine one. Ottawa. August 15. During a wrangle, Hon. J. G. Haggant, Postmaster-General, challenged Mr W. Mulock, member of the House of Commons, to fight. Vienna, August 15. The "Vienna press is urging the European Powers to take action to preven'Eussia from forcing Turkey to permit the passage of Russian vessels through the Dardanelles. Berlin, August 16. The sale of the Parisian journals, Le Figaro and Le Matin, has been prohibited in Sorasburg, owing do a report published by them on the state of the health of the Emperor of Germany. JST. I'BTEIIsBUBG.AugUSt 15. During the review of troops at Moscow the Czarina ordered the Jewish soldiers to withdraw, as their presence was offensive to her sight. Yokohama, August 15.

It is asserted that .Russian influence has succeeded in overturning both loca! factions which were contending for su- | prernacy. and it is commonly rumoured ! that Great Britian, Japan, and China are comt'iningto defeat the Eussian plans. The C l )>inese fleet is mustering, and war is predicted between Eussia and China Pekin, August 17 The Pekin officials remain obdurate and demand that the Great Powers should indemnify them for the loss in the recent riots. The Powers threaten a naval action. Received August 18, 10.30 a.m. Berne, August 17. Twelve persons were killed and many injured, by a railway collision in this city where the visitors' festival is being held. A train was shunting a Tolhkofen in order to allow the Paris express to pass, when the latter came up and dashed into it. Paris, August. 17. The congregation of Rites has decided tbat the Holy Coat at Argentenil (not the Argentine) a small town near Pans, is that of Jesus when a child and that the coat of Treves and Argentenil belong to different periods. Nearly two million Pilgrims are arranging to visit Treves, Thirty -four thousand pass through the Cathedral whf>re the Holy relic is exhib* ited every day. Washington, August 17Owmg to the parachute failing to open a women who was making a descent at C.m.'innatti, fell five hundred feet and was dashed to pieces. A similar acci dent occurred at New York where the parachutist fell into the water and was drowned. London, August 17. Mr Maxim, the inventor of the well known rapid-firing gun, is reported to haye invented a flying machine, which will carry two tons at the rate of ninety miles an hour. New YoHr, August 17. Details received from Chili of the capture of Pisagua by the insurgents, show that of the force of 300 defending the town only 25 were left alive. The insurgents carried off the Governor to the sea, and drowned him in revenge for his cruelties.