CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 93, 8 March 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright I PER UNITED FBESS ASSOCIATION. | London, March 6. The betting on the University boat : race is 9 to 4 on the Cambridge crew. The naval estimates brought. down by the Admiralty provide for an auxiliary | squadron of fire protected Cruisers and two 19-kaot torpedo gunboats, having all the latest designs in sharp-shooting guns. The cost will be between £800,000 and \ £900,000 The estimates aUo show that ihe sum of £500,000 will be required, for the next financial year. She boats are to be completed in two years. £ Professor Blackie, who is himself a warm sympathiser with the crofter agitation says Mrs Gordon Baillie would deceive tiie devil himself. She has been living for some years in great style, and has left a large number of debts unpaid. The detectives are searching for her with a warrant for her arrest on a charge of fraud. Mrs Gordon Baillie's mother earns her living as a charwoman. The Anglican Bishops are making strong protests against the practice which is growing up amongst the aristocracy of devoting the Sabbath almost entirely to amusement. Among the richer classes theatrical entertainments, juggling exhibitions, boxing and tennis matches, and even dancing, occupy the greater part of the day. The Bishops are appealing to their clergy throughout the Kingdom to use their influence to remedy this growing evil, and to secure and maintain a proper observance of Sabbath Day. Bishop, Moorehduse arrived and preached at* Windsor Castle yesterday. Rome, March 6. Information has been received here that an avalanche has engulphed the Hospice at Great St. Bernard, a mountain pass of the Alps, between Piedmont in Italy and Yalais in Swit* zerland. No loss of life is reported. Constantinople, March 5. The rebels in Houmeha have again broken out in rebellion, aud 40 of the leading officers have been arrested. I Sofia, Maich 6. The radicals have gained a majority ! in the elections in Servia, I Bulgaria has notified the Powers that she will reject any Turkish demand which might, if it were acceded to, have the effect of disturbing the conditiou of the country. Berlin, M*rch 5. The Prince of Wales has returned to this city from San fiemo.