LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 102, 5 March 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

4fr MORE TROUBLE AT SAMOA. ELOPEMENT OF AN M.P. By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. fPHB UNITKD PKEBS ASSOCIATION.] Washington, March 4. Senator Palmer has been appointed Minister of Agriculture. Mr J. G. Blame has accepted the position of Secretary of State in General Harrison's Cabinet. London, March 4. MrE. Gent-Davis, M.P. for Kensington, who was recently committed to prison by a Judge for contempt of trust, has eloped with a lady, leaving his wife behind him. He had previously applied for the Chiltern Hundreds. A rumour comes from the German seaport of Kiel to the effect that a conflict has taken place at Samoa. An American warship is supposed to have first fired a blank cartridge, the German ship Olga replying with ball. Neither the American nor the German Legation in London is able to confirm the rumour. Mr Gladstone's speech on Mr Morley's amendment to the Address -inKeply occupied two hours, and was a brilliant and impassioned specimen of oratory. When Mr Parnell rose to speak he was cheered for several minutes by the whole of the Opposition, who stood up in their places for the purpose, under the leadership of Mr Gladstone. Brisbane, This Day. Out of revenge for his dismissal a butcher named Hodgkinson fired twice at Ernest Hungerford, a medical student, of the Sydney University, who was visiting his brother's station at Croydon. It is believed the wounds are fatal.