CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 112, 19 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, fPEII UNITED PItKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 16.

Mrs Osborne, who was sentenced lo nine months' imprisonment fcr perjury in the celebrated Pearl case, is suffering epileptic hysteria in Holioway Gaol. A relative who lad intended to leave her £40,000 in his will is reported to have revoked the b'-quest. Irishwomen have sent in a petition for the release of Mrs Osborne.

Reprisals on account of the Behring Sea dispute are looked upon with disfavour generally.

In a circular issued with reference to the amalgamation of the Union and South Australian Banks, the directors of the latter institution state that it was provisionally agreed that the Union Bank should take over their business as a going concern, and discharge nil liabilities, all the assets, with the exception of £569,000, to be taken over subject to valuation. The directors explain that they deemed it expedient to enter into negotiations fnr the amalgamation as the price of the shares were falling and the deposits were being withdrawn.

Mr Perceval has applied to the Ad^ miralty to furnish a man-of-war to convey Lord Glasgow from Sydney to New Zealand.

The outstanding assets in Murrieta's estate amount to £4,300,000.

Mr Justice Chitty has ordered the trustees in Mackelvie's estate to pay the New Zealand trustees £37,000 to establish an art museum in New Zealand.

In the House of commons Mr T. X, Ellis, M.P. for Merioneth, moved the second reading of a Welsh Bili providing for the security of tenure and fair reut. Mr Gladstone opposed the measure, saying that the question was not yet ripe for serious consideration. The second reading was negatived by a large ma* jority.

The United States Government have agreed to vote a sum of money to the families of the Sicilians who were lynched at New Orleans.

General Booth intends making a tour of the Continent in connection with his scheme for the rescue of the submenjed tenth.

St. Pktebsbuhg, March 16. Considerable distress is caused by the failure of Gunsbcrg's Bank March 17. It has transpired that the Czar forbade the Minister of Finanqe to advance five million francs to save Gunsbere's Bank. The assets of the institution are expected to be sufficient to meet all liabilities. The failure of Gunsbergs's bank :s .attributed by the management to the persecution of tho Jews. Washington, March 16. The United States Cabinet are press* ing for a definite settlement of the fisheries dispute. Bbussels, March 14. Three Belgian Anarchists have been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for stealing 72,000 dynamite cartridges.