TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 123, 23 November 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— -CopjTight OUTBREAK OF INFLUENZA. THE FRENCH PREMIER.S NEW POLICY. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 2i. The steamship Tekpa arrived from Wellinfcton to-day. Eight hundred boxes of dried opricots from the irrigation settlement of Mildura hare been sold at 98s per uwt, which is IS per cent above the new season's article from California. Influenza is prevalent iv Blackburn, and it is estimated there are 10,000 suffering from the epidemic. November 22. The steamer Tekon met the full force of a gale and was hove to in the Channel for three days, but reached Pl j mouth safely, At a meeting of shareholders of the London Bank of Australia Sir J. Garrick announced that during the suspension of that institution trust accounts amounting to about i' 600,000 were opened, And the hulk of them had been transferred to the new bank. The depositor*, he said, had applied for about £170,000 of preference shares, and old shareholders had taken 48,000 new ordinary shares. The appeal of tho Mortgage Insurnnco Company against the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, ordering them to pay £1000 for a deposit in the Commercial Bank of Australia, insurnd in its office, was argued to-day and dismissed. Mr Lecky, the historian, in an article in one of the reviews, expressed tho opinion that England and ber colonies wil soon be in closer union, affording a great guarantee of the peace of tho world. Great Britain, he thinks, is culpable in that she neglects to promote emigration to tho colonies, and thus strengthen the Empire. The frontier between the German Cameroons and the British territory in Western Africa has beon delimited. Great Britain retains Yoln, and the Germans the southoro shore of Lake Tchad, which givos them the command of the Chan district. Madrid, November 21. Many frosh discoveries of bombs haye boon mado at Barcelona. Paris, November 22. The programme of M . Dupuy, Premier, declares against Socialism, and advocates individual liberty and freedom of labor. It promises social and sanitary reform, and the establishment of a superannuation tund for working men. The programme was well received m the Chamber of Deputies.