CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 44, 20 September 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

4» By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright I peh united press association. I London, September 18; It has been decided that women are ineligible for Beats in the new County Councils. At the Parnell Commission Sir James Hannen, President of tlie Commission, ruled that the Court should decide what " discovered" documents either/ party would he permitted to inspect. Sir James also stated that The Times ought to define the charges in order to reveal the persons implicated. Mr Graham, junior counsel for The Times, submitted | lo the Court that at the present stage of the proceedings it would be almost impos» sible to comply with the wish of the Court. [ The Times, in the course of an article on the N ewcastle miners' strike, approves ihe action taken by the men, and says that in Australia the working man is very much master of the situation. The same paper, referring to the rejee» tion of tbe American treaty by China, attributes the action of the latter power in this connection to the high handed proceedings of the New South Wales Government in ivfusing to allow Chinese to land in that colony, and suggests that Australia had better exclude all paupers from;her territory. Constantinople, Sept. 18. It is reported here that the Greek fleet will shortly manoeuvre in the JSgean sea as a protest against the tyranny of the Turkish Governors over the Greeks. Washington, September 18. Senator Sherman has given notice in Congress to move that it be an instruction to the Foreign Committee to report as to the best means of promoting friendly res lations on the part of the United States with Great Britain and the Dominion of Canada. Pabis, September 18: The deficiency in the French wheat harvest has been overstated. Bread riots are tbreatened in this city, Rome, September 17. The Pope has suspended Bishop Sboss mayer.of Djakovar, mi Croatia, on account of the indiscreet utterance for which he was rebuked by the Emperor Francis Joseph. Ottawa, September 17. Sir John Macdonald, the Premier, favours the abolition of all tolls on Caha* dian canals.