CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 35, 19 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PKK UNITED PHKSS ASnOOI ATJON .) Lontdon. September 16. The Times considers Sir H. Lnnsjevin is guilty, and that it has certainly bc>n proved he was culpable of amazing blindness with regard to the frauds. Obituary- Sir John Steell, E.S A., sculptor to Her Majesty for Scotland, rotat 87. "Rich gold reefs have discovered at Errisbeg, Connemara, County Gulway. The 35 tons of silver conveyed from Valparaiso by H. M.F. Espie'gle has been deposited in the vaults of the Bank of England. September 17. Mr Justice Collins has decided that if a combination pass a resolution not to deal with a particular tradesman, it is an offence against the Common Law. A telegram from Buenos Ayres states that Balmaceda has arrived on tUe Argentine frontier. Tenders for the New South Wales 3| per cent loan of £4,500,000 at 95 opened to-day. It was found that only £4.100,000 had been subscribed, but a few brokers took up the balance. Eomk, September 16. Fierce storms have been raging in Northern Italy, and the country round Turin is being inuodafced. Maibid, September 16. tour thousand families at Consuegra have been rendered homeless. The place presents n frightful scene. Hundreds of bodies are floating about, and robbeis are pillaging in all directions. Women and children are dying of hunger. The Government is empowering the Governors of the stricken provinces to expend money in relief of the distressed. September 17. The damage done at Consuegera bj the floods is estimated at £400,000. Huns dreds were drowned through refusing to leave their homes, though warned of impending danger. St. Petebsbt/b<j, September 17. It is alleged that in return for the Dardanelles concession the Czar has abandoned a large amount of the arrears of the Turkish indemnity. Beblin, September 17. The efforts to bring about are conciliation between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck have, up to the present, been unsuccessful. Hosg Kong, September 17. The Chinese Government has protested urgently against an armed force being sent to Tchang. It is expected the Chinese navy "will be immediately mobilised. Vienna, September 17. Beports have reached here that the Eussians and Afghans are fighting m the Hindoo Koosh mountains which separate Afghanistan from Afghan Turkestan. Constantinople, September 17. Information has reached here that immense petroleum reservoirs at Batoum, a port on the Asiastic coast of the Black i Sea, are on fire, and menace the town.