CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 103, 21 February 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Te'egraph.— Copyright (I>Ell IINM'KU .I'lllijS AinOCIATIOV.) •"London;.'. February 19. Mr. Parnell presides at a banquet of Irishmen in London on St. Patrick's Day. Members of the Liberal Party have made a donation of £500 to help, the Anti-Parnellites, and promise to assist in paying their election expenses. Sir-W. Cumming denied the charge of cheating, but the Prince of Wales replied that there was ample evidence against him. The block on the Thames is increasing. , The owners of vessels have offered the dock companies to .provide shelter for free ' labourers. Shipowners in Liverpool with an aggregate of 750,000 tons are joining the Shipping Federation. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade, has communictel with the London Chamber of Commerce, urging it to enquire into the best means of promoting an Imperial Zolverien-. H.M.S Rapid has been re-commis-sioned for service on the Australian Station. Mr Reynolds, a dairy expert from New Zealand, has opened a depot in London for the sale of produce from that Colony. The postal authorities have received intelligence that the R.M.S. Monowai, which had to return to San Francisco owing to an accident to her machinery, will resume her voyage to Auckland on the 22nd inst. and will leave Sydney on her return journey on the : rne-table day. Cairo, February 18. The Egyp'ixn finances show a surplus of half a million for the year. Ottawa, February 18. A fire at Westminister, in British Columbia, caused damage to the extent of a hundred thousand sterling. Beulin, February 18. Dr Liebnch claims to have discovered a cure for tuberculosis superior to Dr. Koch's. It can be injected under the skin, does not induce fever, and it effects svre harmless, '