NEWS BY CABLE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, August 1. 1-rious rioting again occured at fast last evening between Orangeli and Nationalists. The rioters opf I the police, who were called out to ill the disturbance, by stone-throw-a-, in.l the police li nil and killed li.- and wounded many others. The I i. < wet* at length dispersed, ami iv nudiugiit nil was quiet in the city, f Hie Southern tjueumdaud l’u torsi ■ ’uiup-i -. ' lin - Inwii registered, w ith a m .. j-.tal of £-100,000. Ti )M .tiu| litan ('oal Company, of ■k ii.ey, i.a. been announced, with a WF' sX). ' ■ utlis in Labrador are much I nt horrible cannibalism still I 1 £ V- 4 * K'.lubition will he closed on 1 Noveuiber

Yielding to high official pressure, Mr Bosisto accepts the Companionship of St. Michael and St. George. Australian wines are selling freely at the Exhibition. 1 Mr James Service has arrived. The wheat market is inactive, and prices are unchanged. The harvest prospects arc favourable, but English crops are below the average. Heavy English hop crops aro expected. The American crops are an extensive failure, and New York prices have doubled. London, August 2. The Marquis of Salisbury has now completed his task of forming a Ministry, the vacant portfolios being allotted as follows ;—Secretary of State for India, Sir K. A. Cross; Secretary of State for the Colonias, Mr Edward Stanhope; President of the Board of Trade, Colonel F. A. Stanley; Lord Privy Seal, Earl of Cadogan. Sir It. A. Cross and Colonel Sir F. A. Stanley, who have been appointed respectively Secretary of State for India, ami President of the Board of Trade, have been raised to the peerage. August 8. An agitation threatening separation is on foot in Catalonia, a province in the north-east of Spain, as a protest against the Anglo-Spanish treaty. The agitation threatens to culminate seriously. Eighty-one thousand persons visited the Exhibition yesterday. The Canadian officials disbelieve the statements received from Labrador respecting the straits of the inhabitants, and refuse to send assistance. The seamen have announced that they are determined to resist the demand of shipowners for a reduction of wages, and threaten to strike if the same is persisted in. Reports from Port Derby announce the arrival there of the steamship Triumph, from Wellington. The The police at Derby report that the miners at Kimberley are getting gold, but that water is short. The following further Ministerial appointments have been made :—President of the Local Government Board, Mr C. T. Ritchie ; Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir James Ferguson ; Under-Secretary for India, Sir John E. Gorst; Under-Secretary for the Colonies, the Earl of Dunraven; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mr W. L. Jackson ; and Financial Secretary to the War Ollice, lion. 11. S. Nortlicote. The press generally arc satisfied w ith the appointment of Mr E. Stanhope as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sydney, August 2. The strike of coalminers at Mount Keiuhla continues, all efforts at an understanding between masters and men having failed. The cargo of the barque Chasca will be discharged at this port in order that a proper survey may be made, with a view to ascertain whether the vessel can he repaired and proceed to Wellington, or whether she shall be condemned. O’Donovan Rossa has publicly declared that the American dynamite party is preparing to prosecute its operations on an extensive scale in England.