CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 107, 8 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PER UNITED PItKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 6. The Economist consider? that the rapid expansion of exports from New Zealand, Queensland, and Victoria is a proof that the check of borrowing has j had a salutary effect. i The election for the vacant scat of I Derbyshire South, caused by tiie death I of Mr H. Wardle, resulted in the return of Mr Broad, the Home Eule candidate, by .i majority of 1250. The Eeturns of the London Couuty Council elections are not yet complete, but up to the present 87 progressists and 21 moderates have been elected. Lords Rosebery, and Carrington, and Messrs John Burns, John McDougall, and W. C. Parkinson have been returned with large majorities. Pakis, March 5. A burglar, who was fleeing from his pursuers in the streets of Paris to-day, turned on them and shot tliree dead be fore being overpowered. Bombay, March 5. It is feared that the steamer Deccan, bound from Mauritius to Bombay, has been lost with 100 lives. New York, March 5. During the hearing of a charge of horse stealing in an Indiana Court, the prisoner fired at the Bench, killing the Mayor and Marshal. \The culprit was lynched by the mob, Berlin, March 4. A housemaid at Dresden has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of high treason. Madrid, March 4. A dynamite bomb was exploded in the church of St Nicholas in Valencia. The altar imnge of the Virgin, Mary and a celebrated picture of The Conception were destroyed. March 5. A great Anarchist plot has been discovered in Barcelona. Brussels, March 5. The Independence Beige asserts that the British iVavy is terribly inferior to that of France, as are also the const defences and torpedoes. Calcutta, March 4. Three hundred prisoners confined in gaol sit Ayah, in Burroah, revolted and killed their European gaoler nnd wounded several of the warders. The prisoners then made their escape, but were pursued by a party of volunteers, who killed the ringleader of the revolt, and rec.ipturcd others, thus preventing what is believed to have been an attempt at a general massacre of the residents. St. Pbtehsbukg, March 5. TUe pebuJe of Poland are much alarmed at the demands made by General Gourko, Governor- General, who desires a free hand in order to strike terror among the malcontents. The Czar lias granted him increased powers.