CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 46, 15 October 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

I (PER UNITBD PUKSS ASSOCIATION.) i London, October 12. The Times considers the result of the harvest as heart-breaking. Mr John Burns considers the present time inopportune for (he strike, and characterises the action of (hose now going ont as mad and suicidal. He urges the introduction of the ballot box in connection with strikes. The Standard pronounces in favour of Sir M. Hicks-Beach for the leadership of the House of Commons. The Times urges the claims of Mr Balfour. Speaking at the unveiling of the statue erected as .1 tribute to the memory of John Bright, the Earl of Derby sated that Hie drift of the ago \ras towards voluntary support of tho Church, and they could not dream of connecting tlie State with a single sect in any ucw community. October 13. The St Petersburg correspondent of tlie Daily Telegraph writes that a conspiracy against the life of the Czar has been discovered at Kiev, and that a printing press has teen seized. A serious outbreak has t-iken place among the students, and although many have been arrested, the spirit of revolt is spreading. The proposals of Mr T. Plavford, Premier of South Australia, for the limitations of holdings and the compulsory sale of leise'iold property is causing considerable alarm, and it is rumoured tint large withdrawals of capital from that co!oiJ3 r are contemplated. The Siandaid correspondent says that the negro delegates attending tho Methodist Congress are not allowed to take meals at the same restaurants! as thcother delegates. The paper, commenting on this exclusive-ness, says it is an unhappy comment on the Methodist nulleuium. NYashingto^, October 14. A Melbourne rainmaker has contracted to water North-cast Kausas in the Spring for a dollar per acre. St. Petersburg, October 12. The temperance propaganda promulgated by tho Czar is succeeding in the famine-stricken district. Brussels, October 13. Information has reached here that the Belgian vessel Ellen, losing her bearings in the Mediterranean Sea, drifted hopelessly about for a fortnight. The crew suffered terrible privations, 12 of the number dying from starvation. Only one was rescued. Rome, October 12. The Chief offender in the outrage at Victor Emmanuel's tomb has been conducted to the frontier. Italia suggests it is possible that under the guise of a VTorkman's pilgrimage a body of. Frenchman may seize Home. Beblin, October 12. The numerical strength of tlie German army is eleven thousand below that of France, but the war vote of the latter is thirty million francs above the German Pakis, October 12. There is prodigious puffing of the Russian loan m the French press. Monte Video, October 13. A rebellion has taken place in Uruguay with the object of seizing the Junta and murdering the President, but it failed. Tho military suppressed the revolt after some sharp fighting, in which a number of the insurgents were killed. Berlin, October 14. The relations between the Emperor and Bismarck are improving.