CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 62, 27 November 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyiig&t fPER UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 24. Tbe Marquis of Qiieensberry has offered to assist General Booth in his scheme. Mr Bradlaugh ';■- deprecate* accepting the proposal, and poibtHo *.h» immense discrepancy which the Salvation Army balance sheet shows. _ ■' m_ . A Catholic priest, preaching ia '■ a church at Hatton Garden, Holborn> attacked Mr Darnell Several of the congregation proteste ', and as the Rev. gentleman was leaving the church he was mobbed. A cargo of wheat, ex ship Crusader, from Port Chalmers, has been sold at 35* 6d. ■■■.- ■ " ■'■"- ; / ; " In his monthly circular Mr F;O. Licht estimates that the month's production of beet will show a decrease of 35,000 tons r but that the present campaign will ha.ro a surplus ot 10,000 tons. Mr W. Beckett, M.P. for Bassetlawv hns been killed by a train at Wimborne r Ministertown, in the County of Dorset It is tbe Earl of Airhe and not the Enrl of Derby who has made, a donation or £1000 to General Booth's scheme The Star states that Mr Parnell retire* from the leadership of the Irish Party. The Admiralty has .leiinei to sen ! myessel to search the Crozet Islands for traces of the missing ship Camperdown r bound from London to Newcastle.; The liabilities of Baring Bros., when the pressure be«sn, was £34,000,000. Pour million's worth of securities wererealised before applying to the Bank o£ England for assistance. . Bomb, November 25. The elections have resulted m a ma- | jority of 4 to 1 in favour of Signer Crispi's. Government. \ • ; • '< ■ New" Yobk, November 25 ! Several large failures are reported both in this city and in Pittsburg.