CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 106, 5 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 2. i Financiers urge New South Wales to place at least a million of bonds locally even if the price is higher. They consider it is imperative to keep off the London market at present. Mr Panmure Gordon, of Gordon, Hill and Co., stock and share brokers, states that he has placed a million Victorian 4£ per cent, 18 months' bonds, yielding 4-jj; , per cent. This money is payable on June 13th. It is rumoured that Mr Gordon paid 99^ for them ; and also secured the option of another million. Financiers declare that tbis method of placing bonds through private agents is 1 irregular, and highly injurious to colonial credit. At a crowded meeting of Liberal supporters last night in St. James' Hall, ' Lord Rosebery and the Hon. John Morley made eloquent addresses in favour ! of the policy of the Liberal candidates for 1 London County Council seats. Numerous meetings of the party are being held , nightly in London, and the utmost in- ' terest is centred in the elections. t Walt Whitman, the American poet, is t in a critical condition. The debate on the Free Wooi Bill begins at Washington on Tuesday and is ; expected to last a fortnight. - Lord Knutsford expresses regret that ' there has been a misunderstanding res- ; pecting the submission of the names of ■ the gentlemen proposed as Governor to : the Government of New Zealand, but > denies that there has been any breach of faith. 1 Mr Perceval, Agent-General of New Zealand, states that he understood that , he had received an assurance that the Government would be informed of the I appointment before it was made. Tlie [ Colonial Oftice undertook to use every , precaution that nobody should be appointed who was not perfectly acceptable. A hitch has occurred in the transfer of Murietta's business to the Barings' Assets Company, and the arrangements 1 will probably be abandoned, and rumours are current that the hitch will haye serious results. The Queen is reported to be fretting over the death of her grandson. She ! pays daily visits to his tomb, and her , condition is giving cause for anxiety. Many factories in the Midlands and , North are closing through want of coal. The situation in Sheffield is alarming, as the cutlers, grinders, and forgers are all likely to be thrown out of employ--1 ment. I Murders are increasing in Vienna owing to distress. 1 Athens, March 2. It is believed that M. Delyannis was dismissed because the Chamber of Deputies refused to impeach M. Tricoupis, the 1 former Prime Minister, and nlso because his policy was likely to result in a finan** cial crisis. M. Delyannis, being in pos session of a large majority, refused to resign. There is great excitement in Athens, and mobs cheering both the King aud the Minister. St. Johns, March 2. The survivors of the blizzard on the Newfoundland coast number 40, but so severely have they been frostbitten, that they will probably be cripples for the rest of their lives. Vienna, March 2. The number of starving persons ap» plying for gifts ot bread has reached 12,000, and piteous scenes are constantly occurring. St. Peteksbueg, March 2. The prospects of next harvest in Russia are desperate owing to the slender stock of seed.