CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 29, 5 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, September 2. By a fire at some stables in Ayr, nine racehorses were burnt to death. •The Rmr Barrow, in Leinster, Ireland, has overflowed its banks and submerged thousands of acres. Capetown, September 2. " General" Booth has sailed for Aus. tralia. Ottawa. September 3. In the House of Commons to-day Sir R. J. Cartwright moved that the census returns shewed that Canada ought to re vert to freetrade, as protection had been a complete failure, and caused an exodus of the population to the United States | The Hon G. E. Foster, Minister of Finance, defended the fiscal policy otthe Government, and contended that the exodus was the result of the Liberals continually decrying Canada. During a hurricane the steamer Dun* murray capsized off the coast of NovaScotia, and eight persons were drowned. New Yobk, September 2. Eobbers stopped a tram at Ogdensburg and stole £700 The Sheriff is pursuing the offenders with bloodhounds. An entire herd of pedigee shorthorn cattle, the property of Mr Perkin Moore of Cumberland, have been destroyed, owing to their suffering from pleura pneumonia. The Rev C. H. Spurgeon has passed the acute stage of his disease. Mexico, September 3. The Mexican ranch proprietors are paying the expenses in connection with experiments in Texas and elsewhere for producing rain. St. Petebsbtjbg, September 2. It is stated that the Kussian Govern* ment intend to raise a loan in Paris. A report is current that Russia pro* poses to exchange Bessarabia, a province of Southern Russia, situated between the Pruth and the Dniester, for Dobrudscha, an extensive district of Roumania, on the Black Sea, September. 3. Seven thousand Russian Jews have left for England, United States, and Australia. Russia is purchasing Suez Canal bonds, with a view of strengthening French, influence, and is also immensely increasing the issue of paper roubles. Sofia, September 3. By mutual agreement Servia and Buls garia haye withdrawn the troops from theirjrespective frontiers. Beelin, September 3. The Emperor has left for Austria to attend the military manoeuvres. He was accorded an enthusiastic welcome along the route. Pabis, September 4. A train conveying French troops to the summer manoeuvres became derailed at Calmont, Chalandray, near Dijon, and fell over a steep embankment. It is reported that 200 have been killed, and many injured. Washington, September 3. It is report' d a district Governor in Nicaragua and six of his men were killed in frustrating an attempt to release some prisoners.