LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 82, 15 January 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. TPEB UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION.] London, January 14. Some tenants who were being evicted at Lurgan, County Armagh; made a desperate resistance, and in the encounter with the police three were wounded. -•- The Pope has presented golden chalices to Cardinals Newman and Manning and Archbishop Eyre, of Glasgow. The action of breach of promise of marriage brought by Phillis Broughton against Lord Dannan will be heard shortly, | Cardinal Manning is of opinion that much good will result from the cordial reception of Mr Gladstone by the Pope. The Enghsh press is objecting to MrMr Gladstone's visit to the Pope. Sir John Gorst, Political Secretary to the India Office, is a passenger by the s.s. Tongariro to New Zealand. New York, January 13. The revenue ofthe Rev. Ward Beecher's church has decreased by one-half since his death. . Madrid, January 14. The Spanish Republican party regards the resolution bf Senator Edmonds (U.S.) with reference to the Panama Canal as an infringement of national rights. Paris, January 14. The Bank of Paris has agreed to issue 60,000,000 francs fresh capital for. the further prosecution of the Panama Canal. Party feeling is running very high in the Seine election, and both candidates are spending immense sums of money. Bkbmn, January 14. In the Reichstag the Government ask for a vote of two million marks for the reinstatement ofthe German East African Company. Prince Bismarck will speak in -favour of the scheme to-morrow. Rome, January 14. The American prelates, in an audience with the Pope, urged his Holiness to do his utmost to combat the evils of socialism. St. Petersburg January 18. Russia is increasing her army by 100,000 riflemen and 10 new brigades of artillery. The frontier guards in Turkestan have also been largely reinforced. Sydney, Jun vary 14. Mr R. Gibbs has succeeded in forming a Ministry. The following portfolios have been allotted; — Premier and Colonial Secretary, G. R. Dibbs; Attorney-Gen-eral, Edmund Barton ; Minister of Publio Works, James Fletcher; Colonial Treasurer, James Patrick Garvan; Minister' of Justice, Thomas Michael Slattery; Postmaster-General, Henry Clarke; Secretary of Lands, William John Lyne ; Minister of Mines, John Moor Chanter ; Mm ister of Pubhc Instruction, William H. \ Suttor, M.L.C. ; President of the Legis- ' lative Council and Vice-President ofthe Executive Council, John Lackey, M.L.C. [ Brisbane, Thia Day. s Admiral Fairfax has cabled instructions to the commander ofthe gunboat Palumah to proceed to Sydney, j.. The Government : have not been consulted in the matter and , there is some objection . on their part on ' allowing the vessel to leave the colony. , The drought is breaking up in many parts of the distriot. ( Melbourne, This Day. 5 At the enquiry into the collision between the Hauroto and the ship King , Arthur, in Hobson Bay, the look out man > on board the former deposed he could not see the ship's lights, and only caught sight 9 of her hull when too late. The Court considered the officers of the steamer did . everything in their power to avert the I collision, and there was no necessity to 3 interfere with their • certificates. They expressed an opinion the ship was anj c lored too close to the light ships.