LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 68, 6 December 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright J tI»ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION..} Lonboh, December 4V '• ; ' : In the- Tlonse of .Commons Lord V *K' Randolph Churchill moved &n adjourn- ~ ':■ ruent of the House to protect against the dispatch of British troops to Suakim. The motion was defeated by a majority of 42. ■ Lord Balf our at Burleigh has declined the Govemorsßip of Queensland for family reasons. The Oaths Bill was read a third tune in the Lords. * ■ '■ At a dinner at St. GeorgeJg-Club^ Lord Carnarvon said it was to the greatest advantage to the colonies that they should leave the Grown untrammelled in the appointment of Gove*nors. He thought at the same timethat the colonies should have a Largevoice in the discussion of Imperial matters, and hoped they would ere loug be represented by a Judicial Committee in the Privy Council. The Government have granted LBOO each to two men named Braningfeaa ami Murphy, who have been wrong- •'■"' fully imprisoned for ten years. Lord Wolseley ia opposed to the>.. Suakiiu campaign. IS'kw York, December 4 oTConnor,0 T Connor, the sculler, has beea feted at Toronto. He leaves for Aus- ' ' tralia forthwith, provided a match can be arranged. . St. Petersburg, Dec Amber *. The Russian Government are eoastruoting twelve guu boats for the Go* v eminent of Montenegro. Belgrade, December 4 King Milan of idervia has decreed that the ex-Queen Natalie shallßesume hei maiden name. Syd.vey. December 4 Rain is falling at Ohartemlle ans Townsville, in Queensland. In all othißr. parts of Australia the weather is fine and. dry to-day. : Be bun, December 4. The German army is being increased in order to place a check on the Bussiaii ;;l and French frontiers. •■,.• Professor Geifkin, to whom is attributed the publication of the late .Eini pernr's diary» is suffering undar the bard- ' chips of prison treatment. He isawarfmg trial, which seems likely to be deferred for an indefinite period. Received December 6, 12-15 p.m.* _■ ." ' ; Pakiß, December o. Persistent attacks are being made upon the Panama Canal to such an extent as to threaten M. de Lesseps raising the neoeseary funds to prosecute the work. . : : <laiko, December 5. It is reported the,- Arabs are leaving; : their trenches in front of Suakim, and are proceeding to make another attack on Wady Haifa. ZkvztßA:£'Becenibm 5. An English missionary at Bouzomaya - . had a narrow escape from death. The natives mistook him. for a. German mis- : sionary, but be was recognised in time and liberated. He states the natives, assert they have no enmity against any one but Germans. Sydney. This" Day. The benefits from the recent rains are 1 fast disappearing, and bosh fires have broken out again in different parts of th& : i colony. It is intensely hot to-day.