HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 243, 19 February 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE FIGHTING IN BRAZIL. THE BEHRING SEA FISHERIES. SCO PERSONS ON AN ICE FLOE. MURDER OF A RUSSIAN OFFICER. I STiRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN i FRANCE AND PORTUGAL. THE PACIFIC CABLE. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London. February 16. A cargo of Victorian wheat was sold for about '26s 6d. February 18. Arrived — Blue Bell, barque, from Timaru (Nov 8). In tk billiard match of 7000 up Peall beat Memmott, tbe Victorian, by 15 points. Mr Reid, Victorian delegate, dined at the House of Commons to-night as a guest of Mr Morley and Mr Campbell Ban nerman, He pressed on Mr Morley the necessity of Great Britain subsidising tbe Pacific mail steamers. NkwYouK, I'VbriMry 17. Tbo death is announced here of Frank Byrne, one of the Irish " luvincibles." News has been received tbat the Brazilian forces defeated tbe insurgents at Bassofuudo, and tbat 400 of tbe latter were killed. Washington, Februnry 17. Mr Grcsbam, Secretary for State iv the United States Government, objects to the ' modus viveudi ' arranged regarding the Bcbriug Sea question, on the ground that it involves a reduction in revenue. He is negotiating with the British Government on the subject. Paris. February 16The Paris courts have decided the Princess Colonna must sue for divorce at Naples. February 18. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has recommended that preserved meat factories be erected in the country to prevent the troops being dependent on foreign supplies The relations between Portugal and France arc strained, owing to tbe reluctance of the Government of tho former country to safeguard French investors in their capital for the construction of Portuguese railways, and in consequence the French Minister has been recalled from Lisbon. >r I'ktkrsjjcbg. February 17. Five hundred persons drifted to sea on au ice floe at Ingeriuauulaud, Helsingfoss, iv tbe Gulf of Finland. Hopes are entertained that they are safe, and rescue parties have been sent out. Owing to the brutality of Colonel Akertok, ofthe Dragoon Regiment, Warsaw, the officers drew lots who should murder him, aud the lot fell to the adjutant, who shot the colonel dead.