CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 157, 4 August 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ ..;-;"' ■ .',■■-• "■; . By Electric . Telegrapli;.--Copyright [ PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J •/ London^ August I.:-; The National Liberal Federation I League has decided to renew, the anticoercion crusade, and will insist upon the release of Mr Dillon from prison. A writ of habeas corpus has been granted in the case of Mrs Gordon Baillie to show why she should not be , admitted to bail. i The Local Government Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords yesterday without ...division. .The Earl of Carnarvon condemned the measure-, which, he thought, was certain to create;, corruption. i: At the inqupst on the body of Ridley, the medical officer of Tullamore gaol, j who shot himself shortly after Mr Mandeville's death, the evidence disclosed the fact that, letters of a menacing character were being received by him. Obituary — Sir William Charles Sar« geaunt, aged, 59. The opening ceremony of the Mel* bourne Exhibition is warmly eulogised by the press. In the House of Commons Mr Goschen! will move the remainder of the'" amendments to the Commission Bill, to be considered forthwith at the end of tomorrow's sitting. Dcbbakv August 1. Information has been received from Zululand that Somdeh, one of Dinizulu's strongholds, has submitted to General Smythe unconditionally, and will surrender to that officer. The . Zulus are encaged in looting and murdering on British territory. JEEnjor McKean's column is now marching on Cega, which is believed to be held by Dinizulu.' Zanzibar, August 1. Messengers arriving here state that the position of Emm Bey in April was very perilous owing to the advance «f the Mahdi, and that he was escaping along the left tank of the Nile; Bomb, August 1. The Porte has acquiesced in the Italian annexation of Massowah. The French Government are preparing a note to the Great Powers on the subiect. Berlin, August 1. The Nouvelle Revenue professes to publish Prince Bismarck's secret report against the marriage- of the Pripce of Battenburg, in which he dwell strongly on the policy of not offending the Czar. The Emperor William hastened his departure from Copenhagen in conses quence of having met <rith a very cool reception from King Christian. - He has now gone on a visit to Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe. The Emperor will shortly visit tbe King of Italy, and later on will make a trip to England.