CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, 19 November 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 17. Influenza is spreading both in Scotland and England. Mr Stevenson, the novelist, in a letter to The Times, demands that the Powers should recall the officials from Samoa who threatened to blow up prisoners with dynamite. There is steadier increased Continental demand for wheat. The Exchange is depressed, and a general fall in stocks has taken place. Influenza is raging in Edinburgh. Several deaths are reported. It is believed that Prince George has typhoid fevei. He caught the infection in Dublin Barracks, while visiting his brother. Washington, November 16, At a Salvation Army meeting in Omaha a woman shot another woman, a captain in the Army, and then committed suicide. The motive was jealousy. New York, November 16. The Anarchists are increasing in activity, and are threatening the police. Memorial services on a yast scale have been held in honour of the late Mr Parnell. Major McKinley and other notables, including Mr Chauncey Depew, delivered eulogistic addresses. Ottawa, November 17. The Canadian Government is persisting with the attempt to institute a mail service between Australia and Vancouver. Paris, November 17. It is officially announced that work on the Panama Canal cannot be resumed unless the Government assists. Fifteen thousand colliers in the north of Prance have struck for increased wages. Several conflicts with tensdarmes have taken place. Buenos Ayees, November 16 Seventy thousand troops are under arms and an order has been issued to arrest President Pellegrini, and it is suspected he will rebel. A tornado in the Argentine killed and wounded seventy people.