CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 80, 10 January 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PEK VS IT SttPRKSS ASSOCIATION.) LoKDON,,Januai7 7. The accident to the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon took place at Mentone, France, where he was visiting for the benefit of In health. He accidentally fell down stair.--, knocking out two of his teeth and loosened three others, and received a shock to his system. Forty Breman torpedoes are being placed in position for coact defence. Sheerness has been appointed the testing station. The personality of the late Sir W. Pearce has been sworn at under a million and a quarter. It is reported that Mr A. J. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland is in imminent danger from the Invincibles who are endeavoring to compass his assassination, he is carefully guarded by detectives. The imports into the United Kingdom last year amounted to £386,500,000, and the exports £233,700,000. Paris, January 7. Baron de Lesseps has been offered the chairmanship of the new Panama Canal Company, which has been formed, with a capital of twenty million pounds. There is considerable excitement m this city, owing to the Eiffel Tower, which is being erected in the Champs de Mars in connection with the Exhibition of 1889, visibly declining, consequent on the subsidence of the foundation. Victoria and New Zealand have been required to intimate before January 15 whether they intend to occupy the space allotted to them at the Paris Exhibition. Berlin, January 7. Professor Geffken was released on the ground that he was unaware that the publication of the Emperors-d iary was a criminal offence. He received a great ovation on his return to Hamburg. The press applaud the courage of the Supreme Court in taking the course adopted. Naples, January 7. Mr Gladstone has gone on a visit to Pompeii. Thursday Island, Jan. 7. All hopes of the steamer Yaitarna, which left Outch for Bombay with 900 native passengers on board, have been given up, and she is supposed to have foundered with all hands in a cyclone, Some hard fighting has taken place in Formosa between the regulars and 3000 rebels. The latter wuu: repulsed with heavy losses on both sni.^.. A band of pirates at Haiphong has been dispersed, and 14 killed. St. Petersburg January 7. Princess Helena (wife of Prince Chris tian) was driving in a sledge along the Charkoff Railway when it was overtaken by a train. The driver was killed, and the Princess knocked senseless. The train actually passed over her. but she escaped uninjured.