CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 108, 10 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PEII UNITED PIUSSS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 7Lord G. Hamilton, replying to a question asked by Mr O'Connor in the House of Commons, stated that the Auxiliary Squadron had not been tried to its maximum draught, as it was feared damage might result to the boilers. They had, however, been put to a trial which exceeded the draught specified in the contract. The Temperance party helped the Liberals in the London County Council elections, and the publicans the Tories. The Times asserts that the Moderates were practically nowhere. The Standard alleges that faddism defeated common sense, and will not believe that it indicates the result of the general election. Tbe Chronicle considers it is the opening of a new age. Mr John Burns received the largest vote. The Queen proceeds to Hyeires in South France on March 17. The Prince of Wales and family start for Monte Carlo on Thursday. In addition to her boilers being cracked it has been discovered that the Pique's guns are wrongly mounted. The Financial News says the failure of the Mercantile Bank shows it is idle for colonists to rant about tbe splendid resources of Australia. It feels certain the insidious growth of Treasury Bills will tie quicker in eyil effects than legitimate loans. The coal panic is abating. March 8. Berry, the hangman, has resigned in consequence of a horrible scene which occurred at an execution where the doctors fixed the length of drop in ops position to the expressed views of Berry, and the execution was bungled. Vienna, March 8. Baron Hirsch has given £2500 towards the relief of the starving people in Vientia. New Yobe, March 7. The press is furious at Lond Salisbury, and have taken to publishing the names of vessels which are leady in case of war. The local press consider that the Mar guis of Salisbury's proposal to open tbe Behring Sea fisheries to a certain extent is a menace to the existence of the industry.