CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 143, 3 July 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

• — *- By Electric Telegraph.— CopyrigW I PER UNITED PKES3 ASSOCIATION. [ LoNroN, June 29. The Anti-Slavery Society have received messages that several Europeans are de 1 ! tamed as prisoners at Khartoum. One, ; a Mr Slaten, is retained as the Malidi's , running footman ; another, Mr Cupton, 'is compelled to work in the arsenal ; and j a third, M> Nevrfeld, has been kept re* 1 ! peatedly chained, and his been occasion' '■ ally been partially hanged. Other pri« Boners, who had been similarly tortured, had succumbed. It is stated that 500 Egyptian troops are sufficient to rescue the remaimug prisoners, and it is also asserted that many of the tribes would be glad of the opportunity of deserting the Mahdi and throwing in their allegi> S ance With the friendly Arabs. j Mr Hugh Watt, M.P. for Glasgow, who delivered a lecture in London in January last on the great mineral re. sources of the Northern Territory of Australia, has commenced a libel action against Dr Cameron, of the Glasgow Mail, who characterised the lecture as a plagiarism of Mrs Dominic Daly's book. In the House of Commons the licensing olauses of the Local Government Bill have been rejected by large majorities. Capetown, June 29. The Cape Parliament have agreed to the South African Customs Union. Beblin, June 29. The Emperor William has made many changes in the officers of the household, and alfto in the army and navy.