CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 68, 5 December 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

: ♦ (PER UNITKD.PItRSS ASSOCIATION.). London, December 2. Tho Liverpool City Council has re solved to open its picture gallery to the public on Sundays. Influenza is increasing in Scotland. With regard to the question of prece« j dcnco raised . by Kear<Admiftil Lord j Charles cot fc on tlie^ Australian station j some time ago, the Admiralty has advised i Lord Enutsford, the Secretary of State , for the Colonies, that it is open to objection to give local naval officers relative rank with officers engaged in the col nial navy and army, and they should remain unchanged by local rank. The death is announced of Bishop Perry, of Melbourne. The Standard says that the imports of frozen meat are excessive, and the trade is not paying. The Times supports the ppfition from Ne*v Zealand asking'Canibridge University to grant some degree for women which can be taken up in New Zealand. Messrs McCarthy and Healey are suing Mr Monroe, banker in Paris, for the recovery of the funds deposited in his bank by the late Mr C. S. Parnell. Mr Goschen has abandoned ten shilling notes, though he is anxious that the use of silver should be extended. Pabis, "December 2. Dom Pedro, tho deposed Emperor of Brazil, caught a chili and is 4n such a critical stale that his relatives hare been summoned. Figaro slates that an alliance is being arranged between England and China, against Russia. j New York, December 2 John Parnel', brother of the late Irish leader, sailed for England, in the hope that he will be able to secure the release of the funds in the hands of Paris bank* ers, and re-unite the factions' of the Irish party. It has been ascer ained that Field, junior, asked Cyrus Field for assistance prior to the failure of the bank. Cyrus gave him the keys of the safe containing !iis securities, telling his son to take enough to protect himself, The son took everything, and then attempted to commit suicide. Calcutta, December 3. Lord Lansdcwno declares that it is not intended to push the opium traffic for the sake of the-revenue. Beklin, December 3. The Emperor, addressing some recruits of the Guards, declared that they were h'S bocly and soul, and must shoot their parents or brothers without reserve if the Socialist agitation rendered such an order necessary. The speech has caused a sensation in Berlin.