CABLE NEWS.

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

CABLE NEWS.

By Eledtjrfff Telegraph.— Copyright ' [PEi« r.VlTil> PRKSS ASSOCIATION | : Lonpon, December 4. Mr Lfunhey (barrister), of Auckland, ha* received the tie r e of Doctor . of Philosophy from the University of Leipsic. '■ ; : in the Houso ol Commons, during a discussion on the Imh Estimates, Mr Gladstone violently attacked Mr Balfour's Irish administration, charging him with being responsible lor the Mitchelson affair and the doatli of John Mandeville and KiuseHa. Mr Balfour replied to the charges in detail, and declared that the extraordinary weakness of the Opposition was shown in this constant re-cooking of exploded complaints against his administration and the absurd charges levelled at him. Sir F. Dillon Bell has expressed himself hopeful that the British Government will recognise the desirableness of subsidising the Canadian-New Zealand cable route. Mr Blight has suffered a serious relapse. Sir Lybn Playfair, M.P. for Leeds, in the course of a speech at Staveley, drew a contrast between New South Wales and Victoria to illustrate the advantages of Free trade as against Protection in Australia, and showing from statistical return* that th» former colony was more progressive and prosperous than the latter, arguing that this is the result v i the Freetrade policy. ! It is understood that the Government are in favour of the Agents-General's proposal to reinsert the clause in the Liability Trustees Bill providing for the investment of funds by trustees in colonial stocks. The Jockey Club referred the Chetwynd Lord Durham dispute to arbitration. The Panama canal scheme is said to be in a critical condition financially. New York, December 3. Kronck, a Chicago dynamiter, has been sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. St. Petersburg, December 4. Diplomatic relations between Russia and Persia are strained, owing, it is said, to the ascendancy of English influence in the latter country. Rome, December 4 Humours are current to the effect that the French are secretly erecting important forts in the Savoy, outside the neutral zone of the Franco-Italian frontier. Beklin, December 4. It is reported that the Emperor WU Ham's affection of the ears is becoming serious, and that fears are entertained that it may possibly deyelop into c^icer. Although His Imperial Majesty has been confined to his palace for a week, an official announcement has been made to the effect that hia condition is satisfactory. An impression is, however, gaining ground that the Emperor's ear complaint is the cause of his indisposition. Paris, Decemb r 4. A boy only eleven years old deliberately murdered a child at Lavaur. After he was arrested he escaped, but was eventually recaptured. Virnna, December 2. The Fortieth Anniversary of the Emperor Francis Joseph 1. was celebrated to-day without public pomp or festivity, the Emperor having desired there should be on outward display. Thirty millions of florins will be given to the charities of the realm, and orders were also given that a thousand parks and avenues throughout Austria and Hungary are to planted with trees in commemoration of the event.