GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 153, 26 July 1888, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, July 23. The continued heavy rains in England nnd the Continent are creating some anxiety in agricultural and commercial circles, as it is feared that much damage to the crops will be caused. .Vl ro Gordon Baillie and her husband nave bei-n committed for trial. Bail was refused. Mr Parnell has announced that he desires a full inquiry into the whole charges made against him by the Times, and only stipulates that the Commission proposed shall be of a non-political character, and to make their report within a reasonable lime. It is believed the following will be appointed as Commissioners : — Lord Justice Sir Charles Synge C. Bowen, -Justice Sir Alfred Wills, and Lord Young, of the High Court of Justice for Scotland. Suakim, July 23. It is thought here that the Mahdi's force is diminishing in consequence of the report received to the effect that Stanley's force repulsed several attacks made upon his position near Darfour. One hundred and fifty Egyptians flying from the dervishes were drown«d in the Nile. The dervishes afterward encountered a force under Coloney Wodehouse, with the result previously chronicled. Calcutta, July 23. It is stated that 10,00 ) troops will be despatched in the autumn to punish the Ghilzais for their recent outrages.