CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 23, 4 August 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

MANAWATU RAILWAY LOAN. CHOLERA STILL SPREADING. TRIAL OF LOUIS RIEL. PRISONER SENTENCED TO DEATH. [beutebs telegrams.! London, August 1. Mr Anthony Horden's application for concessions for the construction of a line of railway from Albany to Beverley is deferred, pending the receipt of the surveyor's report. It it considered likely that Mr John Waddingten will obtain the capital necessary for the construction of a railway from York to Geraldton, in Western Australia.

Tenders for the residue «f the Wei-lington-Manawatu Railway Company's loan, amounting to £160,000, at 5 per cent., with a minimum of 98, were opened on the 7th inst.

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, representatire of the Government in th« House of Commons, has assured Mr MurraySmith, Agent-General for Victoria, that the Colonial Federation Enabling Bill will be passed daring the present session.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's E.M.S. Tongariro left Plymouth this afternoon for Port Chalmers, calling at Teneriffe and the Cape en route.

Madbid, August 1. Cholera continues tu spread with unabated vigour and the daily mortality is very great throughout the country.

Ottawa, August 1.

Louis Kiel, the half-breed insurgent, taken prisoner by General Middleton, has been examined by medical experts, who pronounce him insane. The trial of the insurgent Louis Biel concluded yesterday. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of the weak state of his mind.

News from the Soudan shows that the death of the Madhi has not affected the rebellion, as the hostility of Osma Digna continues unchecked.

The Commons have had under consideration for some time past, the question of better protection of young' girls, and a measure for the purpose was the subject of a protracted debate on Friday night. Eventually the age up to which girls are protected was raised to sixteen years.

Keeeived August 4, 1 a.m. London, August 3. The Light Bev. T)r Walshe was today consecrated Archbishop of Dublin by Hi<: Eminence Cardinal Moran. The Government is in receipt of a teleprm from Bregadier-General Grenfell, c« mmanding the Egyptian Army, announcing that a rumour is among the Arabs to the effect Ostnan Digna is dead. The rumour so far, however, lacks official confirmation. St. Petebsbubg, August 3. M. de r^iers, Bussian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been granted two months leave of absence, and will pay a visit to Bohemia. Ottawa August 2. Louis Biel was to-dny brought up for sentence and he was condemned to be hanged.