CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 47, 17 October 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«, (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) * London, October 14. The strikers at Carron Wharf paraded the streets irilh bagpipes, but failed to withdraw (he non-unionists who have taken their places. One of the disadvantages of the Salonica mail route is that it is infested with briganda. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Buahine will be launched at Dumbarton on the 20th inst. The Countess Bussell intends to sue for a judicial separation for her husband. Mr David Christie Murray, the novelist, has been adjudged a bankrupt. The Premier, Mr Abbott, has appointed a strong independent commission to invesigate the condition of the Civil Seryice in Canads. The Melbourne Harbour Board loan of half a million at 4 per cent., minimum 95, has been successfully floated. October IG. The meeting of the shareholders of the Bauk of South Australia was very animated. Mr Babbage declared that the local directors were useless, and he characterised the whole management as thoroughly bad. The crankshaft of the Parramatta's frozen meat cham! er has broken down in the Ked Sea, and it is feared all the mutton on board must have been destroyed. The Irish League of Great Britain urges the Irish people to force the bishops and priests to retire from politics. The gale in the Channel continues to rage with great violence. The harbour extension works at Dover have been destroyed. Inland, many houses and trees have been injured by the force of the wind, and tha rivers are oyerflowing their banks. The St James Gazette says that tho moyements of the Russian expedition to the Pamir Plateau are taking place upon Afghan and Chinese territory. England and China will probably take joint action in the matter. A suivivor from the wreck of the cattle steamer off the banks of £?ew foundland declares that 42 persons were drowned. It is alleged the crew anJ officers were drunk, but the whole story is doubted. Eighty-six strikes took place during August, and 64 in September. October 16. Five persons were suffocated in. a fire at Millwall last night. Paris, October 14. The daughters of the late General Boulanger intend contesting the will under which Miss Griffiths becomes heiress to his fortune. October 19. The Hussion loan, of twenty million sterling, has been subscribed seren fold in France alone. Baron Hirsch. was one of the largest subscribers. Njbw Yoek. October 14. News has been received from Central America of an attempt to murder the President of Nicaragua. The heaviest searthquake known for years has taken place at Napa, in California. A Masonic temple and other buildings were destroyed. The steamer City of Borne has been wrecked oft Newfoundland. Monte Video, October 14. Fifty-three of those taking part in the recent rip is haye been shpt, Ottawa. October 14. A member of the Dominion House of Commons threatens to reveal corruption of a worse nature than that already adduced. Professior Goldwin Smith has declared in favour of the annexation of Canada by the United States. St. Pjeteesbubg, October 14. The Novosti says that thirteen million peasants are suffering from the famine. October 16. The Czarina has contributed twenty million roubles to the fund being raised for the faminesstvicken people of Russia. Five hundred students who took parfi in the recent outbreak against the Czar ; at Kiey have been arrested. ' The Servian Government has bought a large number of guns for arming the fortresses at Odessa. The distress throughout Russia is severely felt by the merchants, many of whom have intimated their intention of reducing both the number of employes and their wages, while others are failing to meet their engagements. Hong Kong, October 14. [ General Li Hung Chang, Prime Minis » i ter of China, does not regard the situation [ as serious, but says the Imperial Government is grieved- at the attitude ast sumed bj Germany.