CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 118, 12 April 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[By Klectno Telegraph.— Copynght ] . TbKUTEB's TRLEaBAMSI London, April 9. Professor Jolm Tyndall, who on Pro^fessor Faraday's deqth succeeded him as Supprintend«nt of the Royal institution of Great Britain, has retired from that position. ■ A serious fire broke out in the Alder«hot camp to-day, and, despite the strenuous exertions of the military fire brig, ade*, the infantry quarters were com* pletely destroyed. Mr Deakin has declined the honor of knighthood. The captain of the barque Ada Melmore has been fined £50 for not carry* ing lights at sea. The New Zealand Shipping Company* R.M.S. Rirniitaka left Plymouth this afternoon for Wellington. It is announced that Colonel King Harman has been appointed Under* Secretary for Ireland. A difficulty has arisen between England and the Republic of Hayti, owing to the latter having failed to satisfy an old pecuniary claim by England. The Imperial Government have claimed the island* of Tortu«a, belonging to Hayti, and it. is reported that failing their cession a British man of war will be de« spatched to bombard the islands. A French frigate has been despatched to defend the foreignets in the Tortugas, and it is believed that an amicable settlement of the difficulty will be ar« rived at. St. Pbtbbsbcbg, April 10. A man named Gill, with bombs in his possesxion, was arrested on Wednesday last in a street ia this city through which the Emperor aud Empress were about to pass. New Yobk, April 10. The Fisheries Union ut Gloucester, Massachusetts, having suggested in a communication addressed to the President of the United States that the re* prisnls law should be only partially enforced. President Cleveland has replied that the reprisals, if enforced, are iutended to assert the national honor and to protect the nation, and not particular interests.