GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 151, 21 July 1888, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Londox, July 12. The ie« it by the Kailcoura and Doric is being sold at 4§d per Ib. It is stated tliafc the negotiations be tween the New Zealand Government and j ' the Midland Kailwiy Company have been | practically settled. It is considered ' i likely that Ma Robert Wilson will repre- , seat the Company in New Zealand. Severe snowstorms hare been experienced in England. i It is reported that Stanley has ad--1 vanced three days nearer Khartoum, and the Soudanese are gathering to attack j his expedition. Sir Julius Vogel's son has won the Charterhouse School Rifle Cup. It has previously been won by two of his brothers. j a l y \q, Mr W. H. Smith proposes that the Commission to inquire into The Times charges against Mr P&rnell shall possess power to compel the disclosure of facts and the production of any necessary documents; also to grant certificates protecting witnesses. Counsel will be allowed to appear. The papal letter was read in the Irish Churches yesterday. It declares that the Plan of Campaign is altogether an unlawful method of action, and is therefore forbiddea. The rescript rebukes the opposition of the former to the decision of His Holiness the Pope. July 17. It is reported that cholera has broken out in Naples. The Bill providing for the appointment of a commission to inquire into The Times' charges against Parnoll was read a first time in the House of Commons today. Mr Parnell angrily refused to say whether he would accept or reject the appointment of a commission until the Bill had been circulated among the members of the House. It is rumored that in consequence of the disclosures m the Times libel action, Government intend to initiate a State criminal prosecution against Parnell on a charge of being an accessory to the Phoenix P<irk murders. Mr Gladstone, speaking in the House of Commons, said it was cruelty to refuse Parnell a select committee, and the enquiry ou<ht to be limited to definite issues. The wool sales closed firm. Pabis, July 13. M. Boul anger stands again for the Department of Le Nord In consequence of the general charges of immorality against monastic houses in franco, the Chamber has declared urgent a Bill to suppress ail male religious orders. At the duel to-day, M. Flouqu«t was quite composed, while Ge»eral Boulanger appeared to be excited. The latter re« ceived a deep wound in the throat, and it is feared that tetanus may set in. The statue erected to the late Leon Gam bet ta was inaugurated in the city to-day. M. Floquet, who received quite an ovation, delivered an eulogy on the deceased statesman. July 15. The Government entertained 2000 mayorb of French municipalities to day on the site for the Exhibition building. M Carnot, the President, in his speech warmly eulogised the Rupublican form of Government, and warned the mayors not to be seduced by fallacious and noisy enterprises. General Boulanger is improving. July 19. The Chamber of Deputies has approved Admiral Krantz's scheme of strengthen* ing the harbour defences. A report that Emperor William intends to propose a general disarmament and compel France to join is creating much excitement in this city. Beblist, July 17. The German doctors are indignant at Sir Morell Mackenzie's statement that the abscesses in the Emperor William's ear had effected his brain. Capetown July 13. It is believed the fatalities by fire at the De Beer mm« will amount to 224, of which 24 are white men. July 19. Dinizulu has sent a messenger to Sir Arthur Havelock assuring him the attaok on the Dragoons was unauthorised and merely the action of B<*me hot headed joung natives. He has also formally complained to Mr Osborne, chief magistrate of Zululand, that Havelock refused to parley and he has no other c*arse but to take up arms. Washington, July 16. In the House of Representatives the Republican motion to omit imported raw wools from the free list in the Tariff Bill, was defeated by 120 to 102. It is pros posed that the clause admitting wool free shall come into operation on the Ist of October. Nkw Yobk, July 18. The Education Committee of the Senate has adopted an amendment to the American Constitution recommending that all dealing in alcoholic beverages should be entirely prohibited. An Anarchist plot to dynamite pro* minent officials connected with the recent executions of Anarchists has been dis« discovered in Chicago. It was also intended to demolish a number of public buildings. Twenty conspirators are in* volved, and several arrests have been made. A careful canvass of parties leads to the Anticipation that the American Tariff Bill will be carried by a majority of 15. Sofia. July 17. Thirty Macedonian brigands surprised the station at Bethora, and kidnapped two Austrians, two Greeks, and two others. Troops are in pursuit. Ottawa, July 17. A rising of Indians has occurred at Hazleton, a district of British Columbia, and several whites have been massacred. A force has been despatched to qmell the rising and punish the murderers. (Jaibo, July 15 News has been received here that the Mahdi warned a white man, believed to be Stanley, not to advaneo to Khartoum or there would be bloodshed. Yokohama, July 18. A volcanic eruption has taken pUce at Takamaten in Japan, by which 400 lives have been lost and over a thousand people injured.