CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 29, 19 August 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(REtTTEB'g TELKGBAMS.) Received August 19, 1 a.ra. London, August 81. The title assumed by Sir B. A. Groct, Secretary of state for India, on his elevation to the peerage is Baron Cross, instead of Viscount Wamngton, as previ* ously intimated. It is officially announced that the Government has not decided upon an immediate withdrawal of the frontier commission, and that negotiations trill continue with the Buskian Gayernment and it is intended iui commission should return to India in Autumn. The Colonial and- Indian risitorsnow in Dublin were entertained at a grand ball at the Mansion House last night. The hall -was brilliantly decorated, and flags of nearly all nations were displayed, but no single British flag was- hung anywhore in the., building. The cricket matph at Cheltenham eon* eluded to-day: * Tfie Australians won by 26 rans. G-audaur, the American oarsman, arrived here to take, part in the approaching sculling sweepstakes. Negotiations are proceeding for a match between Gaudaur and Beach for £1000, aid the championship of the world. The Queen has beea on a risit to Edinburgh, where she was escorted through the Exhibition now being hold there. London, August 16. The iculling match for the championship of England took place today between If eil Matterson, of Sydney, and George Perkins, of Jttotherhithe, and resuited in the defeat of the latter; Twenty thousand Socialists paraded the street* of Brussels, demanding universal suffrage. Mr Michael Davitt, addressing 20,000 persons in Chicago, said that he had abandoned the policy of revenge against England. Sir Daniel Cooper, in a letter to the Times, urges the establishment of a Federal Council, consisting of 30 members ; each of the colonies and Canada to be represented by four members. The creditors in the Commercial Bank of Adelaide will be required to lodge their claims with the liquidators by September 80. .No further disturbance has occurred in Belfast since the riots on Sunday. The town is now tranqnil. The Australian mails per Sorata, from Melbourne, July 9th, wore delivered today, via Naples. ' ■ A large party of Colonial and Indian visitors have been on a visit to Dublin, where they were entertained at a lunch by tho Lord Mayor. The Times advises tho Government to re-model the Church and House of Lords, and to deal with the land question and local government. Bishop Kennion, of Adelaide, makes an appeal, In the columns of the Timu,to Churchmen and Etonians for fond* to complete tho Adelaide Cathedral, which he hopes to see finished next year, so that it way be considered as a memorial of the Queen's Jubilee year. .German shippers desire that tho Ger« maa-Australian steamship line should compete for the mail contracts between England and Australia. ' It is believed that the Salisbury ernment will not demand any unusual powers for the Government of Irvland.. The tenants in Tyrone are now paying their rents. The French Journal Official insists on the Franco-German protocol of December last being respected in regard to the Pacific Islands, and justifies The retention of the New Hebrides. La Liberte urges the French Governmont to follow the example s*t by England in proclaiming a protectorate over the Elhoe group. Chicago, August 17. The Irish National Convention meets here to-morrow. It is stated that discord has arisen between the Parnellites and the dynamite party. Cafrtown, August 16. Intelligence is to hand from Beohuanaland that Lieutenant Bethell, of the Mounted Police, was foully murdered bj Eaffiras while hunting.