CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 142, 7 June 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[By Klectric Telegraph. — Copyright ] rBKUTKII's TEI/BCtRAHH I London, Jane 3. A demonstration .in honor of Mr Glad(tone took place yesterday at Singleton^ Abbey, when ingathering of forty'thousind Liberals formed a procession and S«filed before tbe late Premier on the . ibhey grounds, in two loop; speeches, ' Mr Gladstone related his position in L-onnect'on with the Irish question, and declared lie was ready to modify his . scheme for the purchase of land in Ireland by the Stale. He further said the exclusion of, Irish members, from the, Imperial Parliament might be- left an open question, it bems" one which was subsidiary to the great international question which involves the cohesion of tbe Empire and the happiness or its people. Sir Julius and Lady von Haast sail for Nhw Zealand by the Kaikoura; leaving Plymouth to-morrow. June 5. Lord Churchill addressed a meeting at Wolverhampton last night. In the course of his speech he declared that despite the enormously increased espon* diture, England was wholly unprepared for war, and appealed to the democracy to insist ripon Itadieal reforms in the Admiralty and War Office. Great sensution has been caused by a speech of Lord Randolph Churchill, in which he unsparingly attacked the administration of the English army and navy. He asserted that the expenditure was annually iricreasine withoutacorresponding increase of effectiveness, and that millions were wasted every year in the most wanton manner through the utter incapacity of the officially and the grossest mismanagement. Exciting scene 9 occurred at Body ke. County Clare, Ireland, during the eviction of a number »f tenants. A force of three hundred soldiers and police protected the bailiffs, but the evictions were stubbornly resisted. Michael Davitt was present, and harangued the people He expressed Ins regret that he ever de» prccated violence being used to oppose the execution oj the law. Sir Charles Dilke, in an article in the Fortnightly Keview, states that France cannot afford to trifle with th« feelings I of Australia, and advises them to buy the safety of New Caledonia by rapidly yeilding the New Hebrides, or in default Australia is likely to drive them out of the Pacific. He also doubts whether th* Dutch or Germans can long retain their territory in New Guinea. The Queen of Hawaii has arrived on a visit to England. The Directors of the Mount Morgan (West) Queensland, are to be prosecuted for issuing a false prospectus.' New Tobk, June 4. Hanlan and Gaudaur row another match for the championship of America over the Pullman course on the 23rd «f July. Hanlan will start for Australia during September. Bebmk, June 3. The Kreuz Keitung of to-day, states that the relations between Eussia and Germany are now of a more cordial nature than they have been for some time past, and it is probable that a meeting of the Emperors of Germany. Austria, and JKussia.wili shortly be arranged