CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 97, 21 February 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■♦ ■ REPORTED DEATH OF STANLEY.

A TERRIBLE DISASTER. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PEH UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION. | London, February 18. The trial of Mr W. O'Brien was resumed to-day, when accused was 'sentenced to a term of six months, the sentence to be partly. Concurrent, y . . .y' It is rumoured at the Congo that Stanley was killed. in ah .engagement with tho natives at Naugamba. It is reported that the Government propose to introduce a defence loan' of one hundred millions sterling with which to build '20 ironclads and 50 cruisers, the whole to be completed : before 1895; also to substitute, both at Home and abroad, the latest pattern of guns, instead' of those now in use. y.. Mr Chamberlain addressed a meeting at St Andrews's, Fifeshne, to-day.;. In the' course of his speech he appealed to' the leading Liberals tb outline the details of Home Rule, as it was unless inviting Mr Gladstone to do so. Professor Johnston of St John's. Oxfoid University, has beeu drowned, owing to the capsizing of a punt. ; ' Mr F. O. Licht, the well-knoym sugar expert, estimates that tne European >beet production for t\»e first .five months i of . this year mllbe 150,000 tons above the quantity of the same period last year. The visible supply of Europe and North America is, however, 190,000 tons below that of last year. It is stated that Sir Julius Vogel'will resigu his seat for Christchurch North and that he will retire from colonial politics. The Marquis of Aylesbury has instituted proceedings in the Divorce, Court against his wife. The sculling match between Bubear and Norwall took place to day on the River Tyne, when the former won by half a length after an exciting race. Henry George will shortly visit Australia. - . . ,- T. M. Healey, engaged for the defence of O'Brien,, charged with inciting, wasejected from Court at Tralee for insulting Colonel Turner, whom he called a sneak. The trial has been adjourned in consequence. r Thb H ague* February 19. King William has suffered. another relapse. St. Pet'ebsbttbg. February 19. It . is rumoured , tW = the u Pandavisfc . party lis supplying Bipulanger with funds with which to carry * ok his 'campaign, in the hope of Provoking a European. War. P__Bißi-Februaiy 18.- ---' It is expected that work at the Panama Canal will be suspended in March, owing to the lack of funds. ' 3 .; Nbw .STork, February 18. Information is received., that » by a b»iler explosion: inn tbeii Park \ Central \ Hotel, Hartford, 50 inmates were killed* many being burnt. alive.. j- yyuyr L i WaßHll#oto_i; February 19 (ingress passed a Pill providing for » refund of war taxes, to the States, by which twenty million dollars of surplus will be divided amongst Hie States..