YESTERDAY’S CABLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6753, 6 February 1892, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLE.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 7.50 p.m., Feb'. sth.) MILITARY. London, Feb. 5The Agents-General will jointly apply to the War Office for a military adviser for the Australasian colonies. CRICKET. The St. James' Gazette says that if the Colonial cricket teams had shown such excellence during their visits to England as they have displayed against Lord Sheffield’s team, no opposition would have been evinced to a biennial visit of an Australian eleven. DISEASED CATTLE. Three head of cattle, suffering from foot and mouth disease, have been seized in London. The animals were part of a shipment from Denmark. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. Fesla, an American electrician, is exhibiting in London a surprising method of producing the electric light from vacuum bulbs without heat. (Special to Press Association.) (Received 10.40 a.m., Feb. sth.) THE PARNBLLITES. London, Feb. 4. Mr Cox, the Irish delegate, says that there are no Parnellites in New Zealand. LORD SALISBURY’S SPEECH. Mr H. H. Fowler, speaking at Plymouth, characterised Lord Salisbury’s Exeter Hall speech as the worst appeal to the basest passions and religious bigotry ever made by an English statesman. INFORMATION WANTED.

City men want to know definitely the object of the visit of the Premier of New South Wales to England.

CANADA. AND THE UNITED STATES.

Washington, Feb. 4.

A conference has been arranged between representatives of Canada and the United States, for the purpose of discussing reciprocity. A GAMBLING RESORT.

An American company, with a capital of £2,000,000, have made arrangements for establishing a gambling resort on the lines of Monte Carlo in an island off the Mexican coast, near Vera Cruz.

QUEEN NATALIE. Paris, Feb. 4.

Queen Natalie has gone to Bearitz. The Liberal party in Servia have invited her to return, and offer to support her claims if she does so. THE JEWS IN PALESTINE. London, Feb. 4. ■ It is reported that the Jewish colonies in Palestine are a failure. INCREASED SENTENCE. Paris, Feb. 4. Cooper, one of the Englishmen imprisoned on a charge of espionage at St. Etienne, has appealed and got his sentence increased. (Received 0.45 a.m„ Peb. 6th.) MR SPURGEON’S FUNERAL. London, Peb. 5. It is reported that the Archbishop of Canterbury will attend Mr Spurgeon’s funeral. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, All the animals at Islington market were killed in order to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease. THE OSBORNE CASE. Mrs Osborne was arrested at Dover and will be charged with the offence at Guildhall to-day. ARREST OF SOCIALISTS. Berlin, Feb. 5. The police have placed a large number of Socialists in this city under arrest. GERMAN LOAN. Doubts are expressed regarding the success of the German 3 per cent. loan. FATAL ICE DRIFT. A drift of ice caused upwards of thirty barges to break their moorings at Breslau. Several of the vessels were sunk, forty persons being drowned. THE VICTORIA. Athens, Feb. 5. Repeated attempts have been made to tow the ironclad Victoria into deep water, but without success. All the available ships of the Mediterranean squadron will make a combined effort to rescue the vessel from her dangerous position.