CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 51, 27 October 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PER UNITED PRRSS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 24. Sir Sanl Samnel, Agent-General for New South Wales, indignantly denies the statement published by the St. James Gazette oh the 17th instant that the loan recently issued by that colony was absorbed by accomodation Bills with the local banks, and asserts that not one shilling was misapplied. "' He warns the newspapers and magazines that misrepresentation of colonial affairs is the quickest way to alienate tho good feeling existing between the Mother Country and the colonies. The Economist considers that the New, Zealand Government had better waive some of its rights with regard to . the Oamaru Harbor Board, and assist in bearing the loss. , Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart., estimates that the British wheat crops will average 30 bushels to the acre, giving a total yield of nine million quarters, and that twenty millions will be required* to be imported. The Hon. A. J. Balfour, who has recently been appointed -Leader' of the House of Commons, speaking at Bury, Lancashire, declared that the concession of the one-man-qne-vote principle at Parliamentary elections involves women" suffrage and would lead to a reduction of Irish representation in the House of Commons. -:, .. . .r' -^ At essrs Moet and Cbandon, champagne growers at Eperh'ayV ':kaTe ;? -refuseid^ an • offer of four .millions " sterling for their business. ,'.■;.. . - ; ; : .• • ' " Mr Simon,, of ; Messrs -. Simon, "KingV; scotc and Co,, the London - agents of Messrs Moet and Chandon, who Visited Australia to report- on the colonial vine-;: yards, denies the assertion that the t Afi*r" tralian soil " has produced champagne equal !o that of Epernay. It is alleged here that had Mr Simons' report been; more favourable some house in Epernay. would ere this hare acquired Australian vineyards. , . ■* ; The Tyne and Wear shipbuilders hSFG discharged a number of engineer^ ■who are members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, consequent on their meddling with the apprentices in the shops. Fabis, October 24. The French Government is pressing the Czar to pay a visit to Paris. A bomb was thrown into ft' military train in Bessarabia, and the explosion killed ten soldiers and wounded six others. ■ St. PETKBSBtJBO, October 24. '■ Influenza of a virulent type is prera* lent in Vilna. - .- Frosts in Russia ore increasing the distress among the peasants. . The Novosti estimates, that twenty millions of tho Russian peasantry are already without food, and it attributes great corruption to those administering relief. Several thousand women are selling their hair in order to purchase food. Many deaths from starvation, especi ally of children, are reported. Behlix, October 24. The proceedings instituted by General Capri vi, German Chancellor* against' •Baron Bleichroden, ' the well •'known financier, on a charge of perjury, have j been abandoned. : New Yobk. October 24. Mr J. G. Blame, Secretary of State fpr the United States, ha* returned to New York, apparently in excellent health. One hundred thousand Americans who petitioned the Cisar in favour of. the; Jews, are subscribing large amounts in aid of the Russian peasantry, and are also shipping large quantities of food to Russian ports to assist the sufferers.-, ' . . Bokbcaba, October .24. The Ameer of Bokhara has consented to Russia collecting Customs duties on the frontiers of Afghanistan, and also to a Russian garrison' being stationed at Dzizak. Zanzibab, October 24. The East African; Company is surveying a railway route to Uganda on the shores of Lake Victoria- Nyanza- Sir J. Fowler, the eminent engineer, estu mates the cost of construction at two millions sterling. : Ottawa, October 22. Messrs Robert McGreevy and Owen Murphy, members of the Quebec Assembly, have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Colony of 400,000 I dollars, but have escaped. ■