LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 88, 31 January 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

-^ #. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright' | FEB UNITED FBBSS ASSOCIATION. 1 London, January 29. Mr Chaplin Lowther, ol Oxford, has abandoned the Protection remedy against the agricultural depression. The experience of France and Germany has shown ft to "be a failure. Father McFadden, who had been summoned for an offence under the Crimes Act. failed to appear when the case was called on. Sixty police who were . despatched to mate an arrest hare failed to find him, Pabts, January 29. The French Cabinet handed fn their resignation, which M. Sadf Carnot, the President, refused to accept ■ It is intended to introduce the scrutin d'arrondissenrent, and then dissolve the Chamber. Fresh elections will take place in March. BEKLnr,nJamiary 29. Prince Bismarck has decided to prosecute the proprietore of the Kreuz Zeitung for comments made by thai newspaper on the Geffchen indictment. Stjakm, January 29, . A Khartoum merchant who has arrived here asserts that Emm Bey waff captured by the adherents of the Mahdi, but lie managed to escape. Stsnet, January 80. The value of the estate in tb» colony of the late Thomas Holt, exmember of the -New South Wales Legislative Council, who died in Lonori September 6, has been sworn at £296,000. • Received January 31, 1.40 p.m. i Vienita, January 31. Archduke Budolph, Crown Prince of Austria, died suddenly of apoplexy. The Hungarian Diet ob» passed the second reading of the Army Bill by at large majority. Violent scenes took place during the debate, both inskto and outside the Chamber. . London, January 30*. D. Sheehy, M.P. for Galway South* | was sentenced to six months' imprisoni ment for inciting; I W. O'Brien addressed a meeting convened by Mr Jacob Bright last night at Manchester last night. He declared that French and Russian dynamiters- were afforded more protection in Great Britain than Irish agitators. "When the police put in an appearance the audience sought to prevent O'Brien's arrest, and rushed! the platform. Eventually he was captured amidst a scene of violent excitement*