CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 83, 12 January 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(I'Klt IJNITKD PItKSS ASSOCIATION.) London. January 8. The Dnke of Norfolk, Lord Coleridge, Lord Rosebery, Dr Dale, Dr Allen, and others of all shades of opinion, have requested that a site be granted in Oxford | to erect a memorial to the lato Caidinal Newman. A Wool Duty Bill, which Mr Springer, Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means, will introduce in the House, has been prepared. Financiers in the City express the hope that the colonies will make defiuite efforts to restore their credit, and advises sinking funds being established to discharge matured loans. January 9. The gift of the city of London to the Dnke of Clarence and Avondale on his wedding is a diamond necklace, value ;£I6SO, and a dinner service, value £"945. The heaviest fall ot snow experienced in Ireland for many years has taken place. Traffic in Belfast is suspended in consequence. Lord Knutsford and Carrington are suffering from influenza. Obituary— Sir R. C. S. Clifford, Usher of the Black Rod, from influenza. Beiuin, January 8. The influenza bacillus is oval and immobile, and is the smallest discovered, being half the size of that of blood poisoning, and differs slightly from Friedlander's. It is extremely small, but amazingly prolific. Dr Pfieiffer recommends that care should be taken to disinfect the sputum. Teheran, January 9. The priests are coercing the Shah to abolish the commercial concessions granted to Europeans on condition of the former keeping the populace quiet. Valparaiso, January 9. It is reported that the Chilian Government borrows five million pounds from the banks. Calcutta, January 9. The Indian Government has decided to remit tho balance of the sentence of those convicts who displayed heroism at the wreck of the steamer Enterprise, which sank in Port Blair Harbour, Bay of Bengal, during a cyclone. . Lord Randolph Churchill has returned from the Transvaal, which he asserts is Africa's greatest possession. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company declare a dividend of 10 per cent per annum. The profits for the year were j£92,500. The sum of £'20,000 has been placed to the credit of the reserve fund, and i'Booo carried forward. The flavour of the butter now received from the Australian colonies is inferior to that at the beginning of the season. The shipping ring is loading New Zealand Shipping Co's steamer Ruahine, for New Zealand, at 22s 6d per ton. Ottawa, January 9. The Northwest Territory has abandoned the inhibition of liquor, and has re-issued the licenses. The town of Lachute, the chief town of Argenteuill, Country Quebec, has been destroyed. It is feared that many lives have been lost. Paris, January 9. The Paris banks have offered to grant a ten million loan to Russia, but it is believed the latter will not accept the terms. There is little prospect of a new Russian loan being taken up in France. St. Pkteesbubg, January 9. There is a general fear in Russia that there will be a rising among the peasants in the spring. New York, January 9. Three hundred deaths per week from influenza are reported in Philadelphia. A colliery explosion lias taken place at Krcbs, and two hundred miners have been entombed. January 10. In the colliery explosion at Krebs seventy persons were killed. One hun* dred of those entombed hare beea rescued alive. < Hhers are known to be living, and the work of rescue is proceeding.