CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 29, 18 August 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright ' [PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London. August 14 It is reported that Mr John Dillon, member for Mayo K>. Thotna . Esmonde, member for Dublin South, and Mr Timiithy D. Sullivan, member for College Green, Dublin, will Jeave for Australia in November next to lecture on the Home Rule question. "" Sir JaiDos Hannen, Sir John Uharle.* Day, and Sir A. L. Smith, the judge.s appointed on tbe commission to inquire into the charges made by The Times against Parnell, hare decided, to »oainience their sittings on Ocoobdr 16th.; . Cardinal Moran, speakinjj at Kildare said that, through the wisdom of colonial statesmen, Imperial rule became , the symbol of peace throughout Australia. It is alleged that ftR/H. Princess Christian of Schleswig Hblstein (Prin» cess Helena), daughter of Her Majesty, will shortly become a convert to B,<»manlsm. Her tendencies toward the Roman Catholic Church bnve long been known, but it is said, that his Holiness the Pope was not aware of her intention. All the Powers except Prance and Turkey have formally approved of Italy annexing Massowah. The Times, in reference to the action brought by Mr I'arnell, states that it declines to assUt him from evading the statutory inquiry, and that he onlj appealed to the courts when he found it was impossible to avoid fcbing into tiie witness box. . Sir William Armstrong has taken a contract for tue construction of three Australian cruisers, and Messrs: Hawthorne,. Leslie and Co. will supply the machinery. Nrw Zealand 5 per cent bonds, 104!; four per cent inscribed stock, 98f. : Dr Bruderell Carter, the eminent occu list, claims to have discovered a cure for bhudness. Recent experiments conducted by Dr Carter on the nerve sheath of the eye have been marvellously successful. Simmonds, an aeronant, accompanied by six experts, intends to travel in a balloon from Vienna to Maroate. The journey will be undertaken for scientific •purposes. '• • New Xo*e, August 15. '•■; : By an accident on^ the- Erie Railway forty persons were injured, and a quantity of blood stock, belonging to Mrs Langtry, vaiueii at forty thousand dollars, on the train at the time, was killed. Berlin, August 15. A German expedition for the relief of Emm Bey is being organised. Dcbban, August 15. A force of 400 British troops engaged a body of Zulus on the 10th. Twelve Zulus were killed in the engagement. ; 'Constantinople, August 14. A crisis has arisen on account of the : Sultan refusing to srfue:ion the sebeme formulated by Kianial Pasha, the Grand Vizier, to raise a loan of a million and a half sterling to meet th« pressing State necessities. The army and navy are clamouring for payment of arrears.. .. . Poet Atr Pbince, August 13. A revolution has broken out here, and. the President, General Solomon, liji's been compelled to abandon his position and has taken refuge on board aiv Bug* Hsb frigate in the harbour. Pae!B, Augast 15. It is believed that the Professor of the Lycee, who fired at General Boulanger yesterday during the election riot, did so aimlessly and only in self-defence. The French press considers that the nomination of Lieutenant-General. Conixt von Waldersee as successor to Peild Marshall Count von Multke is a triumph for the warpirty. The strike of navvies is collapsing. Serious labor riots took place at Calais to»day, and the authorities imnd it ne cessary to call out the troops to disperse the mob.