GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 120, 10 May 1888, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [ PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London, May 8. MrT. J. Condon, M.P. forTipperary East, has been sentencod to 14 days' imprisonment for addressing an unlawful meeting Sir Charles Warren, Chief Coramis sioner of tbe Police, attempted to deliver a lecture here this evening, but was booted down by tbe Socialists who had assembled for the purpose of making a demonstration against him. The lecture bad to be postponed. Sir James Fergusson, Under* Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to Mr Wm. Macarthur, said that the Government could see no cause to interfere in the dis« pute between Germany and King Mali" etoa. , Mr Pa>nell states that he is convinced that Irish Catholics will not allow any* j body to influence them in their political ; duty, and that similar attempts to fetter j the Irish people have repeatedly failed. The Papal decree, he considers, has been disastrous from a religious aspect, and he suggests that a scheme somewhat resembling Trade Unionism is preferable to the Plan of Campaign in the House of Commons. ; , In the match at Norbury against : Thornton,B Eleven the Australians won i by six wickets, New York, May 7. The American wheat harvest is unusually backward this season, and the yield is not up to expectations. . A collision oeourred between two freight trains on the Philadelphia-Bead* ing Kail way line, when a van load of gunpowder exploded. Seventeen houses in the vicinity of the line were wrecked. Eight persons were killed and thirty injured Cabacas, May 7. The President of Venezuela has ap« prised th* English Consul that he is determined, and is able to resist, the unjust claims of England. He declares that he will defend the territory annexed :by England with the resources of the nation. Berlin, May 7. The condition of the Emperor Freder* ick is worse.

Bomb, May 7. The Convocations of Cardinals is considering; what further steps should be taken with regard to the Irish question. His Holiness the Pope has directed Monsignor Persico to obtain the views of the Irish bishops respecting the decree. Canton, May 7A serious flood has been experienced here, and the number of lives lost is pui down at 3000. San Fban Cisco, May 7. ' The mail steamer Zealandia sailed for Auckland on Saturday. Pakis, May 7j M. Jevis, a well-known French aeronaut, is preparing an air-ship in which he will attempt to cross the Atlantic. The Paris press denounce the proposals of General Boulanger to give the army political pnver in the settlement of the foreign policy.

Dublin, May 7Mr Dillon, speaking at Drogheda, sail if tue Pope insists on bis decree tholiish people should inform him that they are capable of managing their own affairs without foreign interference. The priests dissented from Mr Dillon's views.