CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 67, 3 December 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(TEH UNITED PIIBSB ASSOCIATION.) • London, November 30. Four Socialists, who> were arrested at the meeting at Chelsea, hare been com* nutted For trial on charges of riotous conduct, and obstructing the police in the execution of their duty. Influenza of an alarming type is raging in Belfast, and the disease is also very prevalent in Glasgow. Some boys exploded a stray bomb on the bench at Southhampton, one of their number being killed and the rest badly injured. Mr Edmund Yates, of The World, is improving in health. It is reported thnt when Prince George of Wales is convalescent, Prince Albert Victor's engagement to Princess Victoria of Teck will be announced. Sir A. Biyth, Agent-Gentral for South Australia, is in a critical state of health and his condition is causing his friends considerable uneasiness. Davilt and the McCarthyites are wil« ling to have a strong labour party in the next Pnrliamcnt. The hearing of the application filed by Mr Armstrong, Madame Melon's husband, for a commission to examine wit* nesses in Vienna in connection with the divorce case, has been adjourned, a difficulty having arisen regarding tbe jurisdiction of the commission. December 1. A gas explosion at Blackburn demolished the Crown Hotel and the American Bazaar, five persons being killed and many others injured. The Standard's New Tork correspond Jent stales that Mr Field, of the firm of Field and Lmdley, the bankers, who sus< pended payment owing, it was alleged, to the " bearing" of the corn market in Chicago, is a clever criminal, and that his father's fortune is inadequate to re« deem his freedom and the family honour. Referring to the land question in his speech at Glasgow, Mr Balfour expressed the opinion that the~co- operative-farming system would prove a solution of the rural difficulty. Pahis, November 30. The Bank of Monte Civrlo is winning a WOQ^lerftxl omouat of money, tlxere ]iar> ing been a great increase in the gambling since Mr Wills broke the bank. St. Pktebsbubg, December 1. It is reported that the Czar has made compulsory purchases of large quantities of grain, all of which will be distributed in the famine-stricken districts. Bhcssels, December 1. It is proposed to forlify Antwerp at the cost of two and a quarter millions sterling. Ottawa, December 1. Twelve members of the Dominion Parliament have been unseated, charges of bribery having been proved against them. Riodb Janbibo, November 30. The order given by tbe Government for the re-instatemenfc of Senor Castillo as Governor of Itio Grande, is causing a ferment in the province. December 1. The Brazilian Government has dismissed the Pupal Nuncio, on the gr<>und that interference by the clergy in the present state of affairs cannot be tolerated. Washington, December 1. The Apache Indians in Arizona are on the warpath, killing settlers and burning homesteads. A regiment of soldiers have been despatched to the scene of the rising. Vieksa, November 30. The attack made on the Austrian public lotteries in the Reich rath was applauded. St. Pktebsbubg, December 1. Professor Isiaieff computes the famine will cost forty»five millions. New Yobk, December 1. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Messrs Field and Lindley, the bankers who have suspended payment^ and Mr Field, jun., has been confined in a lunatic asylum. Cyrus Field, well known in connection with telegraph extension in America, has broken down in health through worry caused by the failure of the firm and anxiety on account of illness in his family. _____^_____ m _