CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 81, 7 January 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ (PER UNITED PHISSS ASSOCIATION.) London. January 4, The shoemakers generally threaten to strike-for higher wages. The bakers in Brunswick have framed a new tariff of wages, and threaten to strike unless the master bakers adopt it. i The Pall Mall Gazette declares that all I the British warships fitled up with boil» I ers of a similar type to those on the Australiau cruisers have been proved to be absolutely worthless for speed, and that it is dangerous for th; stokers to work near them. It is imperative, the Pall Mall Gazette says, that this type of boilers should be replaced. January 5. Obituary — Sir George Airy, the astronomer. Collier's new opera "The Mountebank >: was produced with great success at the Lyric. .Influenza is universal throughout the southern half of England. It is rumoured that two army corps are ready to embark for India owing to the frontier troubles. The firm of Alexander and Company, sharebrokers, of Old Broad street, which was declared bankrupt a few months ago, has been re-constituted, and the liability of the old firm liquidated. An influential movement is on foot in the city to establish a council of colonial bondholders. It is reported that the attempt to blow up Dublin Castle originated "with the Irish dynamiters in Chicago. Mexico, January 6. The rebel leader General Garza has 2000 armed followers. Beblin, January 5. A report is in circulation to the effect that Pffioffer, Dr Koch's son-in-law, has discovered the bacillus Of influenza. Paris, January 5. M. do Maupassant, the French author, has been remoyed to a lunatic asylum. Singapore, January 5. Orang Eyah, a Malay chief, at the head of 500 rioters, holds the jungle at Pabang and defies the British to displace him. St. Peteesbuhg, January 5. The Graud Duke Sergius, whose tyranny in Moscow is said to have provoked the displeasure of the Czar, tried to purchase bread in a shop in Moscow, under disquise. Three police officers hustled him, and then arrested him, but they committed suicide on discovering that their prisoner was a Grand Duke. Disclosures of corruption in connection with the administration of relief to peas nits continue to be made. The majority of Mhihsts arrested in Warsaw on suspicion of being concerned in a plot against the life of the Czar have been released. Rome, January 4. The Pope, in replying to greetings from the Emperor of Germany, wished him success in liis strungle against Socialism, which he said was the common enemy to religion and to the Empire. Buchabest. January 5. The Queen of Eoutnama is in a critical state of health. Teheran, January 5. The Persian priests secured the popular abstention from the use of tobacco, thus seeking to compel the Shah to abandon the new foreign monopoly. Although the Shah party yielded, a mob surrounded the palace at Teheran and demanded the complete abolition of the monopoly. The troops fired and killed four of the mob, and there is now great excitement in the city.