LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 30, 21 August 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

• By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 London, August 18. The press deny that there is the slightest foundation for the statemeut that Princess Christian has been converted to the Roman Catholic faith. The report is said to have been merely a rumour based upon the coming visit of Monsignor Peraisco, the Pope's delegate, to London. There is a growing belief that the white pasha, of whom accounts have come from time to time by way of Khartoum, is really Stanley. It is stated that Australian visitors in London lost £20,000 plunging on the All England match. The cricket match between the Australians and Notts, was won by the latter by an innings and 199 runs. The third test match between the Australian Eleven and All England has been postponed from the 30th August to the 20th September. A Parnell defence fund has been started for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the inquiry before the Commission. Sir John Gorst, in defending himself against the attacks recently made on him by the Indian press, has denied : that he was a friend of Palmer, oi that he had any connection with the Hyderabad scandals, 1 Capetown, August 17. The rejection of the South Africar , Customs Uuion Bill having causec > great dissatisfaction, a special sessioi of the Cape Parliament has been con vened to reconsider the matter. > A German trading company has beei 1 established at Zanzibar. ]S'kw Yobk, August 17. The American Natives' Associatioi have nominated Mr G. Curtis for th< Presidency. ■ Sydney, August 20. Dr Butcher has discovered tw< , more diseases which he claims maj . be successfully employed in the exter i mination of rabbits. He has beei ' conducting a serious experiments wit) ■ the new diseases with most satisfac : tory results. The Maritime Labour Council ha: I requested the southern coal owner . not to supply the Zealandia. • Melboubne, August 20. The Premier, Mr Gillies, has ad \ dressed a circular letter to the Pre miers of the other colonies urg!nj ' them to join with Canada in impres sing upon the Imperial Governmeu the urgent necessity of making i survey for the Pacific cable. ' The jurors will commence tbei work at the Exhibition about th I second week iv September, but thei t awards will not be made known fo i two or three months. No exhibit i will be received after the end of thi s month, excepting where they are de r taiued by vessels making long pas sages. Received, August 21, 11 45 a.m. fioMR, August 19. ji Signor Cnspi, the Italian Premier, 'ii replying to M. Goblet, the French Minis ter for Foreign Affairs, states that ther is no necessity for Italy to notify to th Powers her occupation of Massowah. H accuses France, which has no interest n f Massowah, of intervening in favor of th ) Greek residents with the object of bring f ing about the present difficulty. Signo . Crispi asserts that Italy will defend t the last her interests m the Bed Sea, an that Massowah has been annexed in th cause of justice and civilisation New Orleans, August 19. ' A serious fracas has taken place be 5 tween the whites and the negroes o • Louisania. In course of the conflic r twenty negroes were killed. Tobonto, August 19. t A sculling match took place to-da-I between Win. O'Connor, the Toronto [ oarsman, and Lee, of New York, th> r former winning easily. Sydney. This Day. Obituary — Jas, Squire Farnell, M.L.A for Redfern. He was Minister for Land in Parkes' Ministry from 1872 to 1870 and Premier of the colony in 1878. A ballot is being taken of the variou Seamena' Unions throughout Australia t decide the following questions: — (1] Whether there should be a general strike • (2), If matters at issue shall be settled b; arbitration ; (3), Whether the subsidy t the Jubilee Company shall be continued and (4), Whether the Seamens' Umoi : shall withdraw altogether from th i struggle, i It is believed that efforts are being mad • by shipowners and colliery proprietors t< . amalgamate with capitalists, with a vie\ [ of resisting in future undue demands o labor organisations. i M elboubne, This Day. t The trustees of the National Art Galler are making extensive purchases of pic [ tnres at the Exhibition. ' Obituary — Alex Fraser, ex-member o 1 Legislative Council.