CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 54, 3 November 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PKR UNITED PIIIJSS ASSOCIATION.) London," October 31. The busmen in London are lairing steps (o form a Bus Company. Sir John Gorst addressing a meeting urged that each industry should decide the hours to be worked Ly those engaged in it, and he advocated Government and Municipal bodies experimenting on the eight hour system. Gapfcnin Shaw, who recently resigned the superinlondene.y of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, which, he lias lield since its commencement in 1886, has been created a Knight of the Bath. Mr Goschcn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, says that his Budget surplus is reduced through provision being made for the extinction of the pnblic debt by paying off three millions annually, The inslalment call on thelfrational Bank of JN T nw Zealand has been paid, and the busiaess of Ihe Bank is generally regarded as satisfactory. While H.M. gur.bont Sabvina was en gat;cd in big gun practice at Portsmouth, one of !he shots struck a couple of fishing smacks, sinking both, and killing one of the occupants. The London produco merchants are speculating in colonial butter to arrive, Tallow — Medium mutton, 26s ; besf, 255. The English wheat market is strong, and prices arc unchanged ; the Continental is firm, and the American is inclin* ing to buoyancy. Antimony, £48 to £48 10s. November 1. A lock out of twenty thousand bootmakers is threnlened. The engineers at Now Castle are striking owing to n difference about overtime, and 13,000 men threaten to go out. Mr John Burns admits the defeat of the Carron Wharf strike. It is the Land and , Loan Company, of. New Zealand which has declared a dividend of 4 per cent, not the New Zealand Loan and M> reantile Agency Company, which usually declares a dividend of 10 per cent; payable in instalments at the end of June and December. " Constantinople, October 31. Six hundred Sakiilava bandits, ambushed in the rushe?, attacked and pillaged a number of river boats. Among those tilled was a French doctor. New Yobk," Octo^ cv 3 1 . A Mississippi steamer has been burnt at Vicsburg, and six persons lost. Mexico, October 31. The Mexican warship Dcmocratn is missing, and it is feared she has been lost, with 70 hands. Mozambique, OctoKcr 31. The natives at Betsiboka, Madagascar, attacked a French exploring party, killing eight. St. Petebsbubg, October 31. I The Russian press is urging that sup* port bo given to France in demanding the 1 English evacuation of Egypt, and stale j that it is dangerous to Europe to allow England to control that country. Great atrocity was di.splared towards women in the anti-Jewish outbreak in Staradout, and several died from the effects of the rough usage. Bebi,tn, October 30. A Social rescript issued by the 35mperor censures two Berlin barristers for the manner of conducting theiv defence in Court, and not upholding the honour of the Bar. Both of them were reprimanded and one fined. Hong Eoxg, November 1.~ It is estimated that four thousand were killed by the earthquake in Japan. The towns of Ajaki, Kasamantau, and Hono were destroyed, (ho latter being entirely demolished by the sea. All the residents perished. Seventy miles of railway were destroyed, and the officials were paralysed and unable to relieve the sufEereri. Firo destroyed the Crown port of Mamaya. Zanzibah, October 31. Captain Lingard, with a strong force, attacked the rebels at Uganda, and defeated them with severe loss.