LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 96, 31 January 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

PROPOSED RECEPTION TOW. O'BRIEN AND SULLIVAN. • •-•■ £ -. -. ■ THE FISHERY DISPUTE. THE CENTENNIAL DEMONSTRATION. RETKEAT OF~THE ABYSSIN^ IANS. .. "/ .7. A NEWSPAI^ER LIBEL ACTION. SENTENCE OF MR COX, M- P. By Eletfjfeic; LTe^egraph.—Cdpyrigbt. |I?KR UNITED PRESS 'ASSOCIATION. I i ■;-"-•■- : - London, January 29. ' ■ The Liberal and Radical Unions hare made arrangements to give a re- ■ ceptiori to Mr W. O'Brien and Mr * SuUivan,, late Lord , Mayor of Dublin. The programme -drawn' up includes an ' ' immense procession 'to Hyde Park of 7 sympathisers and supporters of - the Irish agitators, and a : banquet in honor of Messrs O'Erien and Sullivan _ will be given in the "evening! Th» : day fixed for the demonstration is Monday, February 1 3. .r, i The Prince of Wales is moving in' the direction of establishing a Commercial, emigration, and industrial intelligence department in conjunction T with the Imperial Institute. Hit v' Royal Highness is now arranging ior = the necessary charter. ' The Economist has published an .■'■■•■ article on the recent mining specula- -■'-■ tion in Queensland, and asserts that the prices paid for many of the mine* in that colony' by companies floated ra ' f London were tnost' extravageni. « The Spectator^ referrin'g^to the Aus- >< tralian Centenary, predict* that' when the next hundred years have been completed Australia will be a Federal : Republic with a population oi fiftj millions. '.- '■■' ' ■■" ' ; --:. : .' ; .- ; .. ■ i Twenty-five thousand slabs of Dutch ' tin were sold by action at £154 per , i ton.: .!:■■'" "no- zm >s,^\u;: <■:'. ■^■■:i:--i_i .r V ; : The quantity of wheat afloat for the ■"-'■ United Ringdom is l,*2&,000 quar- -- tersi --'' •^'.■- ■■:••'! "■«■!• i^.^r^i^uwi,:;-,. „ Mr ßamßon Foxj of Barrogate, har presented New South Wales with" £30,000fbr the purpose of erecting a Royal College of Music: r: ; ; v . The ' Bat ' newspaper 'has aeoused ■ Lord Durham of cruelty and brutaUty;^ and ft' summons f or libeli haft been> ' issued bgainst the proprietors. > 'if - • -^ , : - ; Ottawa, January 29. The Government efi&oial organ pre^ diets 'thft ! failure of the negotiations for the amicable settlement of th* fisheries dispute if the Government of 1 the United 'States persist in claiming the surrender of the exclusive fishery rights/^Canadai / "-. T> . \^ ■'■',' Pabis, Janoarj 29. M. Tirard is hopeful of a satisfactory settlement of the terms" of a Commercial treaty with Italy. M. Flourens anii Lord Lytton, ; British Ambassador, have signed the- ' rules of the Mixed Commission for the control of the New Hebrides. r •'■'■'■•■ Madeid, January 29. The Varieties Theatre in this city ' i has been destroyed by fire. ■■ Massowah, Jauaary 29. The Negus of Abyssinia has retreated with his troops to Gundet, some distance to the southward of his former position. Nbw Yobk, January 29. A convention .of the Prostestaht Episcopal Church of America has de- ' cided to permit marriage with a deceased wife's sister. ' :ii : : Dvßiis, Jannary 29. Mr Cox, M.P., has been sentenced at Ennw ■ to four months' hard labor for being concerned in a meeting w hich had been "proclaimed. " Notice of appeal was giv^en. ... . - - .' . -.' ; PxstHk Jaßnary ; . Herr Tisza, the PTemier r in a statement made in the Diet respecting the Russian military movements, said, that the Government were (taking steps to insure the safety of the frontier and for placing the army in a state of thorough eflibienoy. f ? Sydney, January 30. The last important function of the oentennial demonstration was performed to-day, when the foundation stone of the new Parliament houses was laid by his Excellency the Governor in the presence of a large assemblage. The site which has been secured is a splendid one, embracing the whole area, of occupied land between the present JParliamentary Buildings and Governor Bourke's statue, and was reserved by the: Got-] ernment in 1 879 for this special purpose, at a cost of over £70,069. The weather during the week's festivities has been fine, with the exception of a little rain on Saturday, and not too hot. The festivities have been singularly free from accidents,, only one man being killed by a ; fall from a swing. j ..' . A man named John Grace has been arrested for the Armidale murder, having in bis possession some of deceased's property. Before the murder accused had no money, but since then he has been flush. The Centennial band contest was won by the band of the Ballarat 4th Regiment; Launceston,"^2; Adelaide Suburban, S. * ; The Sydney Morning Herald, in an article this morning, takes Lorii Augustus Loftus severely to task for the . statements made by his lorßship at his . bankruptcy examination with reference to bis expenditure whilst Go» y^ernor of New South Wales. Tie Herald says Lord Loftus was" hopelessly embarrassed when he come to the colony -; that the salary he receired as Governor helped to put off the evil - day ; and that when the salary ceased his lordship came to grief. The article suggests that* Parliament should notice the^ statements made by £ord Loftus when voting Governor's salary. Bixsj»Airs, January JK> ,-\ The Chinamen, on the^ Otermoni Goldfield, armed with revolvers and ' rifles, threateaed resistanc* ;to Ikm ! force of polioe sent ta eject them ftoW jg , thefleld, but #«re persuaded by their leaders to depart quj«U^ ; V '