CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 110, 10 March 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Te'egraph.— Copyright fl'Eli ImM TBUr PHi-..-<S A'snOCl ATI ON .) ,!LoNDof»v March- 7. Numerous protests are beine made against Sir Charles Dilke's candidature for Forest Dean. Sir Charles has replied in a pamphlet, inviting a libel action The Belgians om the Congo are accused of cruelties towards the natives,, and trafficking in " negroes for profit and pleasure. Two Protestant elergytaen at Arklow, County Wicklow, have been- imprisoned for 14: "days for holding open air services. Mr Parnell intends to interfere at the general election in the English constituencies possessing Irish votes. Mr Eobert Linds Anfcrobus, junior partner in the well-known banking firm of Coutts and Co. of Strand, W.C. r shot himself by accident to-day. Th'e'bu'tter ex R.M.S. Kaikoura is realising 114s per cwt. Lord Coleridge y Lord Chief Justice of England, regards the reports circulated to the effect that Justice Sir James Stephen, of the,. Queen's Bench, had de- , veloped symptoms of insanity as unfounded. The Judges have met to obtain Mr Justice Stephen's retirement. Mutton— Canterbury, 4sd; Wellington, 4£d New Zealand beef, forequarters. 3 11 16ths of a penny. Hemp — Auckland, fair quality averages £25 15s; Wellington, ditto. £24; inferior, £21 2s 6d. A boom has taken place in the wheat market, owing feo French demands consequent upon the bad prospects of the harvest. • > " ,. Beblin, March 7. Bismarcii will be nominated as a candidate for membership of the Reichstag. [ The official report upon experiments with Dr Koch's remedy shows that of LO6l patients treated for internal tuberculosis, 13 were cured, 171 improved, 588 >howed no improvement, and 46 died Of 7i)B treated for external diseases, 15' were cured, 885 improved, 289 showed no-improvemeat, and nne died. It is reported a reconciliation has been brought about between Bismarck and Von Caprivi. Buenos Aybes, March 7.. A financial panic has occurred in this city. A jjreat run was made on the Provincial' Bank. The Government and private merchants are coming to the assistance of the bank. The banks in this «;ity have suspended payment for two days to permit of them arranging tor a loan in order to secure the Provincial Bank. New Yobk, March 6 Mr Chauneey M. Depew, one of the .railway magnates of the United States, and other directors and officers of- a railway company, have been arrested in con~ nection with the collision which took place between - trains in- a tunnel on the New York Railway on the 21st ult., re* suiting in the death of several passengers. Ottawa, March 7At the elections Sir John Macdonuld has secured a majority of thirty five. Sir J. Macdituaid's organs claim a majority of 4'>. The Liberal press assert it is not more than 16. Ihe seaboard electorates strongly sup ported the Gorernmenl, while Ontario' and Quebec weie almost equally' divided. Two Ministers were deif-re-l Sir R Oartwri^ht and Hon. Wilfred Laurier were elected. Washington, March 7 The United States will admit partly prepared rabbit skins duty free. , Pabis, March 7The French Customs Committee ad vise the free admission of wools, raw hides and flax. Valparaiso, Marcn'7. The insurgents have run short of am> munition.