CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 114, 24 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, (PER UNITED PH.KSB ASSOCIATION.) London, March 21. It is reported Mrs Osborne is in a comatose state. Two of Mr Pritchnrd Morgnn's ealates, yalued at £40,000. have been seized as security for costs in a suit brought against him to compel him to pay a royalty on his Welsh goldmine. At a meeting of the Australian nnd New Zealand Mortgage Company, Mr A. Flower, Chairman, said the directors considered it advisable to invest the reserve in Imperial securities in preference to colonial stocks. Their action was approved by the shareholders. March 22. The Eev Hong Ch'eong gave n lecture to the members of the House of Common* on the opium traffic. He urged England to develop the coal deposits of China. Eome, March 21. News has been received from Massowah that Captain Bettine and his escort were massacred while on a visit to the Ainhara province, m Abyssinia. St. Petersburg, March 22. The liabilities of Gunsberg's bank are now ?tftted at two and a quarter millions, with assets amounting to about 80 per cent, but it is doubtful if they will realise so much. Bkblin, Murch 21. The exact state of the Emperor's health is unknown, and mysterious rumours are current about it. It is re ported that Germany will increase her navy. March 23. Prince Bismark is improviag. Dr. Bergmann desires the Emperor to undergo a slight operation, in order to arrest the aural affection from which he suffers. Other medical men oppose the j step, on the around that it would simply transfer the locality of the malady.