CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, 10 November 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

• — -r~ (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 7. The P. and O. Co.'s E.M.S. Massilia, from Adelaide, has been quarantined at Gibraltar, having several cases of severe influenza on board. Four of the worst I cases were landed. _ . Enrl Grey is in critical health and his ! condition is causing some anxiety to his friends. The Government are increasing the police at all ports on the Irish coast, in consequence of secret rumours, Mr O'Brien asserts that the Boulogne revelation disgusted the Gladstonians and inspired distrust and disinclination to rely on the word of the McCarthyites. The election for the vacant seat for Cork in the House of Commons, caused by the death of Mr Parnell, was held with the result that Mr Martin Flavin, the McCarthy candidate was returned. The numbers polled were— Mr Flavin. 3669 ; MrJ. Beduiond (Parnellite), 2157 ; Mr Sarsfield (Unionist), 1161. A further charge' of obtaining a sum of £100,000 by means of false pretences has been preferred against the Eev Dr Ulut» terbuck. Sankey and Moody, after their London visit, tour India, China, and Australia. Her Majesty has granted Baron Eeuter, one of the directors of Eeuter's Telegram Company, the right to use his title in England. Tho title of baron was conferred 00 laxm im IS7I "by -the. 3>ui£e oE Saxe-Coburg and Go tka in recognition of his public services, The British steamer Lubeja has been wrecked, and 20 lives lost. Mr Wells, an Englishman who recently broke the bank at Monte Carlo, has again won heavily. Ho began with six louis and won £20,000, The Pall Mall Gazette publishes On authority a statement that Mr Glad* stone was unaware of the proceedings at the conference in Boulogne. Owing to the fears of the renewal of dynamite outrages American ports are watched by English ' detectives, as well as the arrivals in Ireland, The Standard's Berlin correspondent wires that the commercial depression in Germany is the greatest known for thirty years past.' A orisis is feared and even more ruinous than that of 1873. Athens, November 6. Thirteen others who sustained injuries on board the English petroleum steamer which caught fire off Negropont Island have succumbed. New Yobk, November 8. Intelligence from Eio is to the effect that large bodies Qf troops, are patrolling the streets'; Tbo northern and southern portions of the country are in favour of the establishment of tho Empire, while the cen • tral portions f«vour the Bepublic, The Government intends to suppress the Monarchists. The theatres in Eio are closed and tbe public buildings are guarded by troops. Marshal Fonseca is ordering fresh elections for Congress. Another despatch says that order has been restored ia Bio. The insurgents iaSan Salvador, Central America, have been defeated. Washington, Noyember 8. President Harrison states that the result of the Ohio election is a forecast of the Presidental election. Consequent on the McKinley tariff the Customs duties collected in the United States m the last quarter fell seven million dollars. The expenses of the Government for October exceeded the receipts by three million dollars, Buenos Aybes, November 8 A cyclone has swept over the country, and a large number of people have beon killed, immense damage was done to property, Pabis, November 8. Dom Pedro, who was de posed from the throne of Brazil when the Bepubhc was proclaimed some time ago, has offered to return if required to do so. M adame Melba was receiyed with immen s e enthusiasm on her appearance as Ophelia m ths opera of " Hamlet." The audience wa3 the largest of the season. St, Petersburg, November 7. The discovery of a plot to murder the Czar is given as the reason for his avoid* ing Berlin, The Bank of Eussia is conferring with other banks on the financial situation, which is regarded as critical. Calcutta, Noyember 8. The number of deaths in connection with the railway accident at Nagpur was 13. Tho commander of the English regime nt was not injured. The officials in Burmah are resorting to rain*making experiments with a view to averting the threatened drought. Chinese troops crossed the Xampoung and advanced on Manouning ostensibly for the purpose of protecting the caravans but the English officials in Burmah forbade further advance. Hong Kong, November 7. It is reported the Great Powers will seize Shanghai and detain the Customs' revenue in the event of the Chinese Goyernment further' delaying' payment of the indemnity for the recent' outrages.