CABLES NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 63, 24 November 1888, Page 2

CABLES NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright l'PKi< I' KIT..U PRK.s-J ASSOCIATION I London. No /ember 21. The j roceedin^s of the League in K'-rry fennel the subject oF the evidence i»efore the Time*-Parnell Com miss on to day. A son of Cur; in, who w«s boycotted and eventually muruered, admitted he was a member of the League but did not believe ihe League hud any connection with tho murder of hi* father. Norah Fitzmauriee, whose father also fell a victim to an agrarian outrage, wes ow of the witnesses* examined. Leonard, agent for Lird Kenraare, gave testimony as to the punishment of tenants for pay» ing rent and " land grabbing " The^e outrages began at Kdlaruey after speeches by Parnell and O'D mobile. After violent speeches by O'Brien, Healy, and E. Harrington the outrages increased in number and violence. Sir H. A. Blake, in the cour<e of an interview, staled he considered the opposition to his appointment emanated from a small section of the Irish party The St Stephen's Review Hates that the Cabinet have decided that Sir H. A. Blake shall not go to Queensland, and are prepared to inform the colonial Ministriei of the names of (governors before they arc finally appointed. Tbe Shipping Committee consider the advance in tonnage justified. Freights are now 30s Tonnage is advancing, but it is understood the freights will remain stationary for the remainder of the year November 22 The Morning Post states that M. de Freycinet. French Minister of War. has purchased m Englaud 200.000 bores of preserved meat for export to Paris The ship Renfrewshire, wliich lefi Glasgow for Brisbane on May 18, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing In the House of Commons, Mr Edwin J de Lisle, M.P. for Lon_borough, has given notice of his intention to move for the appointment of a committee to consider the conditions under which Colonial Governors are appointed. The stock markets are agitated in consequence of a fear that money will b ooiue dearer. The secretary of the Eastern Extension able Company, in a letter in The Times, states that a duplicate cable across the Pacific ocean would cost four millions an I be difficult to maintain and protect. He adds that better and cheaper rates could be obtained by adopting thejjguarant c proposal of Sir John Prendcr, chairman of the Eastern Company. . A committee, under the presidency of 1 the Marquis of Lome, is inquiring into W. L. Kees' crofters' colonisation scheme. Mr Jarae< Russell Lowell, the Ameri». ' can Minister in England, was entertained ' at a farewell banquet previous to his re« ' tiring from his position. Replying to 1 the toa*tof his health, he said the scheme of Imperial federation was a dream, 1 but nevertheless he believed the cohesion of the English races would decide the de-time, of the world. 1 The •.'hairman of the Eastern Extent sion Company writes to the newspapers deprecating the Pacific cable scheme, ' and pointing out that his Company have ' only experienced in the aggregate 41 ' days' interruption on the Australian ' cables since 1880. The Convaoy is ' willing to reduce their rates to anj thing, > provided a guarantee is given of three ' fourths of the present trade Paris, >ovemb»r 21. M, Ardrian Pepee. of the Khone ! district in the Chamber of Deputies, has • been wounded in a duel with one of the ! writers on La Lanterne. Bkblin, November 21. According to a forecast of the Emperor's speech at the opening of the. Reich- • stag, he will toy stress upon the kindly • nature of the relations which hive been - preserved between Germany and the Pope, and declare that the colonial in-* i terests of the Empire will be vigorouly i upheld. Two hundred Alsatian reoruits recently drawn for military service attacked their escort and decamped to Switzerland. St. Petersburg, November 22. The Czar has directed that sixty Bul- • ganan refugees serving in the Russian Army must either resign their positions or become naturalised subjects.