CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 126, 23 May 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.. — Copyright I I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | i London, Ma y 22 Mr Thomas Condon, M.P. for Tip* pernry, has been sentenced to one month imprisonment: on the:: charge of having incited the Irish tenants to conspiracy. ' ... . . ••_; :-..'•'■■ Fourteen of the . largest .steamers of . the Messagenes Mnritimes and TranaAtlantique Company are about- to be prepared for immediate equipment as auxiliary cruisers* A Commission is now sit ing to decide as to the strength of their armament. The match between Yorkshire and the Australian Eleven began to-day. The County team went first to the wickets, and scored 125. When the stumps were drawn, tho Australians had lost seven wickets for 259— Bonner, 94 ; Blackham, 37. Later. ! The match against Yorkshire was won by the Australian Eleven in one innings .by 64 rur.s. . . ■.:■ | M. Licht, a sugar authority, estimates the European beet crop fir the. current season at 329,000 tons below the yield crop. Beblin, May 21. The Emperor and Empress drove through the city to-day and received a tremendous ovation. --After 1 the marriage ot Prince Henry, the Court will remove to Potsdam.

In compliance with a suggestion of the German official press, the Austrian Government are sending large reinforcements, to positions on the Galicion frontier. JNbw Yobx, May 21. It is estimated that quite 250,000 acres of land were flooded in consequence of the embankment of the Mississippi river bursting, and the damage is put down at 4,000,000 dollars. Vienna, May 22. Three German Generals have had an audience* with the Emperor Francis Joseph, and subsequently made an ! inspection of the military posts on the Galician frontier.