CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 57, 20 October 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright f PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ London, October 18. The Court ot Aappeal, by a majority of four to oru\ has endorsed the judgment of Mr Justice North, upholding the action of the Directors of the Bank of Australasia in granting a pension of £1500 a year f>r five years to the family of Mr S. S. i'arfcf-s, the Vielbourn« >U])erin-'Uient of tUe bank, who was killed in ill;- Windsor Kaileway accident in Victoria Five thousand colliers in South Staff -nlshire are still cut on strike It is bei'eve i that the Parnell Commission wili last two months at least. fiie Times claims that Parnell having issued an English .writ the day before ;he Scotch action was commenced, the action mu<t be tried in England. A gigantic Scotch iron syndicate is beiHi; farmed. The Bunk of .N-t;ss^Zeal<md have offered a quarter of a million new capital at a premium of £1. The allotment of shares is fixed for the 24; h.

The lumour to ihe effect that Sir John Gorsl, Political Sect alary to the India Office, would succeed Sir Wtn. F. Druinmond Jervois as Governor of New Zealand, is denied.

Batavia, October 17. Forty-two of the ringleaders in the re* cent insurrection have been arrested.

Rome, Octobei 18

All the Roman Catholic bishops have been directed to agitate in the press for the temporal power of the Pope. San FkancißCO, October 17. Chinese hare been stopped crossing the Californian border.

Suakim, October 17

The rebels have again mustered in force, and are attacking the town, which is endangered. Washington, October 17.

The American. Government hare decided not to agree to the proposal of the £nghsh Government to prohibit the sale of arms and alcohol to the natives of the Pacific Islands.