Cable News.

Woodville Examiner, Volume VIII, Issue 870, 12 February 1892, Page 3

Cable News.

CHINA MOBILISING. TERRIBLE DISEASES IN RUSSIA. DISASTROUS FLOODS IN FRANCE. BEHRING SEA TROUBLE. FREE COINAGE BILL. FAVOURED NATION CLAUSE. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND, BRITISH PARLIAMENT. ANTAGONISTIC MOTION. (Press Association.) Hono Kong, Feb. 11. China is secretly mobilising her forces in Rasbgar, with a vowed intention of occupying Pamir. St Petersburg, Feb. 11. Black pox and spotted typhoid have broken out in Southern Russia. Paris, Feb. 11. Mutton has advanced 2d per lb. Disastrous floods have occurred in the south of France. New York, Feb. 11. The Coinage Committee of the House of R p- es, ntatives is favorable to Mr Blaine's Free Coinage Bill. London, February 11.

Tho Governments of Ita'y, France, and Sweden have been asked to appoint .delegn es to take part in the Behring •Sea arbitration, England and the United States wi 1 each nominate two delegates. Sir Michael Hicks Beach having refused to denounce the Favored Nation clause in his treatise with Germany and Belgium, has led to much disappointment in Canada, and the Press complain that it makes parlaying with the United States for reciprocity more difficult.

'Hie Umpire Trade League intend to curry on a vigorous campaign in England.

■ p akiug at L.verpool, Lord Carrington said that Home Pule for Irel.md was the first step of a frank and feaness policy of uniting Gr a Britain and Ireland, a.id the colonies to. the maintenance of the common in • rests of : efence and common right. He contended that per'e t self Government must prevail throughout the Empire and declared that his criticism of Lord Enutsford’a colonial policy was warmly approved in Australia. It was stated at the Bank of New Zealand mo. ting that L'lo,ooo was expected to be carried over to the m-xt year. The Chairman said the new taxation in New Zealand did not effect the Bank, though it would considerably affect the Estates Company.