CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 19, 19 August 1882, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR UN TROUBLE. THE O'CONNKLL MONUMENT. THE INDIAN BUDGET. LONDON. August 17. Mr E. D. Gray, M.P. for Carlow County, and proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of £500. for publishing certain articles reflecting upon the judges and jurymen who were engaged in trying the recent case of agrarian murder. The Lord Mayor unveiled the O'Connetl monument, and then at the head of I a procession of 40,000 persons proceeded to open the exhibition.---j Tbe \ ai-quls of Haitingloa, Secretary of State for India, in bringing down the I.idian Budget, said it would probably show a surplus of three millions. The salt duty is to be reduced, and the cotton duty abolished. Later. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Prnce^s and family, have left England for Wisbaden, Germany, for the benefit of H>'s Higbness's healcb. The freedom of the city of Dublin has been conferred on Messrs ParnelL and DP'oo, M.Ps. Religious riot s have occurred at Portadown. Dublin is exceed at the manifesto ot the Mayor, aod Mr Paruell is exhor.ing the pubic to calmness. At the Mayor's banque' the toast of the Queen was hissed, and Judge Lawson villi tied. Fifty suspects have been released.