CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 93, 4 February 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (I'BR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 1. AH (he passengers on board the s.s. Eider, which went ashore on the Isle of Wight, were rescued through the gallantry of the lifeboat crews. There were 300 passengers on board the Eider when she struck. Paris, February 1, The new French tariff is expected to . increase the imports of goodsThe dispute with Bulgaria over the expulsion of the French journalist is closed, and amicable relations hare been renewed. February 3 Baroness Albert Rothschild, is dying of cancer. Negotiations between France and Spam ! for the purpose of continuing th- old tariff have failed. The nevrs has caused 1 considerable interest in the wine trade* [ The Journal des Pebats considers it probable the new duties will inaugurate a period of insecurity and isolation of 1 France. Bbblin, February 2. The Education Bill now before the . Prussian Diet places the schools under i the control of tbc clergy, and has excited > bitter opposition, A number of sergeants belonging to the 12th German Army Corps have been ■ imprisoned for periods ranging from two to five years for inhuman treatment of the men under their chargeNbw Yobk, February 2. The schooner Glendon, from St. John's' 1 arriyed at Bridgeport, Long Island, dis--1 playing tho Union Jack, but not the American flag. A crowd of some thousands demanded the lowering of the flag but the crew refused, and defended them selves with revolvers. Washington, February 2. ! A resolution was tabled in the Houue of Representative* demanding the rtcall of Mr Egan from Chili.