CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 101, 23 February 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PER UNITED PIIUSS ASSOCF ATION .) London, February 19. Severe snow storms and gales have been experienced in the South of England. Many telegraph Jines were razed to the ground. News from the Continent states that four feet of snow have fallen in the valley of the lUiine. Under Mr Bnl four's Local Government Bill illiterate persons are excluded from exercising the franchise, but as a safe > guard the cumulative vote is preserved. The debate on the first reading of the measure wns carried out vt ith great virulence, and the speakers were fre« queutly interrupted by jeers. Other English journals give the Bill stinted praise. The Irish press are divided on the question, r/ut the Independent, Freeman's Journal, and National Press totally condemn the Bill. February 20. The Pall Mall Gazette considers that the opposition displayed towards Mr Balfour's Bill will assist the reunion of the Irish party. February 21. Mr Balfour is prepared to modify to a largo extent the Irish Local Governmeut Bill. Mr Balfour's Local Bill for Ireland has been coldly received by the country and the press. It is considered to be chiefly in discharge of pledges, and will increase the prospects of an early dissolution of Parliament. San Francisco, February 20, News has been received that the Tamerlane, a Hawaiian whaler, has been wrecked, and the captain and seventeen of the crew drowned. Sir C. Dilke has challenged Mr Stead, editor of the Review of Reviews, to contest a seat for Parliament with him Obituary — Lord Stafford, of influenza. William Perry and Co., merchants, of Sydney, are calling a meeting of their creditors. The liabilities are put down at £120,000, and ihe supposed surplus at £10,000, A violent earthquake has been felt at Larissa, in Thessaly. The Government Astronomer of Madras states that the sun spots will be concurrent with raintall. Smallpox is spreading in Bombay ; 25 deaths were reported in a week. The British Government tailoring contract has been sub-let to an Kast End firm paying Jews 35s per week. It is alleged that in the disposing of the contract the laws have been evaded and the question will be ventilated in Parliament. The Prince of Wales will shortly make a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea in the Royal yacht. Severe hurricanes, attended by a heavy fall of snow, have blocked railway traffic in England and Ireland. Rio de Janeiro, February 20. Latest intelligence from Ceara reports that the affairs in the province are much quieter. The expulsion of the Governor was the outcome of his supporting General Fonseca, the deposed president. Berlin, February 21. An Emigration Bill containing stringent provisions has been submitted to the Reichstag, and a clause inserted in which various societies are for'oiddeu to assist intended emigrants. Rome, February 21, His Holiness the Pope, in an Encyclical to the French bishops, deplores the yastness of the plot concocted by some men in France against Christianity. It repels the odious calumny that the Church seeks political domination of the State and urges on France the acceptance of a Republic, but insists that Catholics must unite in combatting the abuses of. legislation. The Pope's Encyclical states that the growth of religion in France is cccval with the grandeur of its military and political institutions, Paris, February 21. Tlie resignation of M. de Freycinet, Premier, has been accepted. The Anarchists in the city, who had intended to remain peaceful on May Day, have now decided to hold a tumultuous celebration on that day, in view of the retirement of the ministry of which M. Constans is a member. M. Laur, between whom and the Minister of the Interior a violent scene occurred in the Chamber a few days ago, is suing for assault. Madbid, February 19. The Spanish Government intend to inflict the same punishment for dynamite outrages as for murder.