CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 23 September 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(heutee's telrgeams.) London, Septemb »r 2t». Bench sails on the 14ih. He offers to row Hanlan for £1000 or £800, the race to be rowed on the Parramatta. Mr Gladstone arrived in London today from Bavaria. Shaw and Lilly white's cricket team has sailed for Australia. The police barracks at Belfast have been attacked by a mob, and an attempt made to rescue two prisoners. In the conflict which ensued with the authorities, a man and a woman were killed and twelve others seriously wounded. ' Mr Gladstone has received a memorial approving of his Home Rule Rcheme, signed by 10,000 colonists, and also one of a similar character from the Federa* ted Seamen's Union and from the Democratic Alliance of Sydney. The ex-Premier is highly gratified at the wise and liberal sentiments expressed in these memorials. Mr A. Hearne has presented to the Colonial Secretary a monster petition in favour of the separation of North Queensland. Mr Stanhope, in receiving the same, said the Government must decline to consider the petition until it was in receipt of the views of the Queensland Ministry on the subject of the pro* posed separation. The debate on the motion for the second reading of Mr ParneU's Irish Land Bill was commenced in the House of Commons to day.. Mr Gladstone spoke and expressed concurrence in the necessity of temporary relief being afforded to the Irish tenants. He stated that ho would vote for the sec nd reading. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, in a forcible speecn, demanded the rejection of the bill. It is expected that a division will take place to-night. Bio De Janeiro, September 20. • The Aorangi, from Wellington (August 26th), arrived here on the afternoon o the 18th instant, with her cargo of meat in good condition.