LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 35, 16 October 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph,— Copyright* I PEH UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION, i London, October 14. Sir E. Webster, the AttorneyGeneral, has declined The Times' brief in the action brought against that paper by Parnell in the Court of Sessions at Edinburgh. The Irish dissenting Ministers will banquet Lords Salisbury and Hartington in November next. Suakim, October 13. Osman Digna's forces have been less aggressive during the last few days, and affairs are quieting down. Calcutta, October 13 General McQueen has threatened to destroy the crops belonging to the* Akozais, unless the rebels submit before the 15th October. The Akozais are moving from the Black Mountains to the Eiver Indus, but it is believed they have suffered such losses in the recent engagements that they will be easily subdued. i Zanzjbah, October 13. The Sultan has signed a document granting valuable concessions to the British East African Association. New York, October 14. It bas been elicited that the driver of one of tbe excursion trains which colided in Fennsylvannia on the 1 lth was asleep at the time of the accident. It is alleged that this, official was completely exhausted ; owing to excessive duty.