CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 85, 24 January 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.-rCopyright [>KT< UNITjID- PRKSS ASSOCIATION | Jksxix, January 21. Herr Stoeneeker has given notice to move in the Eeichstag that the sale of alcohol in German colonies be prohibited. The order of the Bed Eagle has been conferred on Herr Kractke, of German New Guinea; Pelldram, the German consul at Sydney ; and Krull, late consul at Wellington. Washington, January 21. Secretary Bayard has been informed that the American prisoners at Samoa have been released. He thinks the situation has been exaggerated, and it will turn out that there has been no infringement of international rights. Dynamite guns, invented by Lieutenant Zalinski, have been tried at New York, with the result that they are a partial failure. The Committee of Congress have recommended the imposition of a poll tax of five dollars on immigrants, clergymen and tourists being exempt. The object is to keep out of the country persons who do not propose to come naturalised citizens of the United States. It is believed that the President's action with regard to Samoa has fairly driven the Germans into a corner. .Calcutta, January. 21. It is stated that China has sent another envoy to Sikkim, and is displaying great anxiety to bring about an amicable arrangement. Paris, January 20. The Freemasons have decided to support M. Jacques* candidature for the Seine. Boulanger is making an appeal to the working classes. London, January 19. It is reported that, at a private gathering of colonial Bishops after the Lambeth Conference, loud complaints were heard of the way in which the Roman Catholic Church is increasing in influence in the colonies. This was attributed by some speakers to the fact that many of the Anglican clergymen are milksops, or men of small intellectual, calibre, quite unfitted for the positions they hold. In his evidence before the Parnell Com* mission, Delaney stated that he received 188 7£d for his share in the Phoenix Park murders.

A plebistic of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce resulted in the rescinding of the Protection resolution.

Lady Sandhurst and Mrs Jane Cobden were elected on the County. Councils, but the legality of their election is doubted. The statement is re-affirmed that Emm Bey was safe at the beginning of November. . "

Matheson's, brokers, are promoting a copper bank, with the object of prolonging the present contracts for 12 years. The capital is three millions, mostly: subscnbed. The debentures are now being issued. Bomb, January 20. A sad affair is reported from Monaco, where a young English married couple on their honeymoon were induced to play at the gambling tables, lost air their means, and committed suicide.