CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 37, 24 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« By Electric Te^graph. — Copyright (PEIt UNITKD PKKSB ASSOCIATION.) London. September 21 . The dockers threaten to bring on a general riverside strike unless their demands are conceded. The Durham miners- are seeking to have the eight hours rule brought into force in the more firmly »estnblish pits. September 22. The Foreign Legations in hili confirm the news of Balmaceda's suicide. The Hannah Landels, from Noumea, was caught in two hurricanes near Cape Horn, in which six of the crew were injured. The deck houses and two boats were washed overboard The threatened strike of the Vie» toriun dockers for an increase of a penny per hour has been averted. Eomf, September 21. The ceremony of installing the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta was celebrated to-day. The proceedings were of an animated and imposing character. Berlin, September 22. Herr Eicbter proposes that German territory in" East Africa. Damaraland, and New Guinea should be sold to Great Bnam. The editor of the Volkawacht has been sent to gaol for a year for hostile criticism of the Emperor's journeys about Europe. September 23. The German military critics give high praise to the behaviour of the French forces at tue recent manoeuvres. Two French spies have been arrested sketching the walls of Strasburg. Washington, September 21. The vessels seized by a Russian cruiser in Behring Sea are American. Madrid, September 21. Consegra has again suffered from a storm, under which the houses left standing by the floods have collapsed. The misery of the wretched survivors has greatly increased. Up to the present 1780 bodies have been recovered in the town and neighs bourhood. Pabis, September 22. The Chinese Government offers an in> demnity to the French sufferers in the recent riots. The loss of French property alone was estimated at two millions. The French Minister o? Marine urges that a naval credit of 218,000, 000 francs (£B, 720, 000) should be voted to put the fleet in a thoroughly efficient state. Valparaiso, September 21. There is prolonged rejoicing over the death of Balmaceda. The only money found on his person was a sum of 500 dollars. St. Petersburg, September 22. The entire press of St Petersburg oppose the suggestion that an International Conference be established to settle the Dardanelles question. Russian explorers are claiming supremacy in Little Pamir and Alicher Pamir, and have excluded Indian officers sent there to report.