CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 87, 21 January 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PEH UNITED PIMCSS ASSOCIATION.) London. January 18. The s.s. Mamari, from Auckland, has arnvod with her bows stove in by a collision, und a portion of her cargo damaged. It is believed the miners shut in by the fire at 13ailhestown colliery will bo rescued. Influenza continues severe both in j Germany and Groat Britian, and a thousand cases are reported in Coydou. It i 8 also spreading in France. Admiral Fiiriax is suffering from influenza. Mr John Redmond, M.P., while attending a political meeting in Dublin, was carried shoulder high by tho crowd. Perry, a property agent in Clare, while riding to church, was shot m the thigh by three armed meu, and is in a critical condition. His horse was killed outright. January 19. The Times obituary column to-day contained 160 notices of deaths, 24 of which resulted from influenza. Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales express their deep regret at the death of Cardinal Manning. Repeated attempts have been made to wreck trains at Eeigate, which is on the London and Brighton and Southeastern railways, but failed. Sleepers were lound tied across the rails, but were removed in time to avert an accident. Bankers and others declare that the success which the Treasury Bills have met is owing to the fact that they hap* pened to be offered at a time when the money market was exceptionally favourable. The bulk of the Tongariro's butter \va3 sold at the prices last quoted. An extensive sale of Crown Lands in Queensland is advertised in the English papers, at the upset price of 10 shillings per acre. Tho passengers and crew of the John Elder, which was wrecked near the Straitß of Magellan, were saved. Amongst those on boprd were the Chilian refugees who were aided to get away by Egan, and of whom the Esmeralda wa3 sent to arrest. New York, January 18. A nam named Dowd, known as " Jock the Slasher," has been arrested in this city in the act of cutting a drunken's man throat. Thero is renewed friction with Chili, owing to offensive criticisms passed on the captain of the Yorktown. Vienna, January 18. Obituary— Archduke Charles Salvator, brother of the Grand Duke of Tuscanj . His death was caused by influenza. Paris, January 19. The French fleet have been instructed to land sailors at Tangiers if seamen of another Power attempt to intervene in the trouble with the hill-men. The rising is subsiding since the Governor has been recalled. Fighting is reported in Dahomey. Ten thousand natives attacked Kotonou Pass. After three hours' fighting the French shells proved too much for the negroes, who were drawn oft with great loss. The French loss was 13. Venice, January 19. The French and English delegates at the Sanitary Conference have agreed on a compromise respecting British vessels bound to British ports being allowed unimpeded passage through Suez Canal. Odessa, January 19. During the ceremony of blessing the waters in the Tiflis, a bridge collapsed, and many persons were drowned.