TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 210, 10 January 1894, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

«. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright FIGHTING AT HONOLULU. FBOZEN MEAT TRADE WITH GERMANY. AMERICAN POLITICS. THE NEW WARSHIPS. | Per J'kess Association.] London, January 9. A telegram received by Dalziels' Agency from Washington reports that the United States troops have landed in Honolulu. They met with some resistance, and fighting ensued with loss of life. The Times announces that five battleships will be begun this year. Sir W. Perceval is about to discuss with Messrs Weddell, Nelson, and Black, the Queensland agent, the prospect of promoting direct trade in New Zealand frozen mutton with Germany. Captain MacKenzie Elliott, of the 40th regiment, has been appointed aide-de-camp to Lord Glasgow, and sails in the steniuer Ophir. News has been received of the death of Bishop and Mrs Hill, of the Niger territory. The Times announces that the construct tion of five battleships will be begun this year, < A tumour — which, however, has not been confirmed — is in circulation in London to the effect that Qoeecsland is about to issue a £1,000,000 four per cent loan at a minimum of 99. Chicago, January 9. The Casino and the Liberal Art Buildings which formed part of the buildings in connection with the World's Fair have been destroyed by fire. The value of the building was estimated at a hundred thousand dollars. Washington, January 9. A strong section of the democrats favor the proposed Income-Tax being abandoned. Senator Wilson in the cause of his remarks while introducing the Tariff Bill accused the republicans of converting an overflowing treasury into a bankrupt one, and recklessly wasting seventy million pounds, of which forty millions were spent ou pensions, bounties and prepayment of interest and principal. He declared that thirty million pounds were lost to revenue by the remission of the duties on tobacco and sugar. The final vote on the Bill is fixed for Monday 29th instant. Nineteen members who were absent without leave were arrested in order to form a quorum. Pabis, January 9 " It is announced here that General Peixoto has resigned the of Braziel.