CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 105, 12 March 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPKU UNITiD PRKSS ASSOCIATION ( London, March 8. Twenty- one persons, arrested or. the charge of complicity in the murder of Inspector Mr Martin at Gweedore, have been discharged. Fourteen others, including Father McFaddeu, are now being tried on the charge. The case for The Times before the Times-Paruell Commission is being brought to a close. News has been received of the wreck of the Ironclad Sultan, 19 guns, 7720 tons, one of the Mediterranean Squadron, at Malta. The officers and crew landed safely. March 9. The Statist reiterates its January article quotes the Insurance Record, the Melbourne Journal of Commerce and others and gives a history of freehold farms r with a list of members of Parliament as provisional directors, and explains the bank managers' letters received indirectly. Earl Spencer, speaking at the Eighty Club," said that Mr Parnell bore his unexampled slanders with dignity and patience. He charged the Government with complicity. Lord Eosebery endorsed these views, and said Mr Parnell was grandly received in England. The destiny of Ireland, he thought, was indissolubely entwined with that of England He retrained from making any reference to the Commission. The Standard states that the copper bubble has burst. Severe floods in the west of Englanl have been experienced. At Bristol and Leicester the towns were inundated. Railways and bridges were demolished. Late information received shows that the prospect of saving H.M.S. Sultan, which went ashore at Malta is improving. The Unionists support Sir G. F. Hamilton in his proposal for a large increase in the navy. Sir Randolph Churchill threatens a long and severe fight New Zealand frozen mutton is quoted from 4d to 4jd per lb ; beef, 4£d. In consequence of the adverse criticisms the directors of the Quayle (Thames) Mining Company propose to wind up the Company, as they are dis« satisfied with the value of the property. The Statist states that the Melbourne banks utilised their resources to engage in wild speculations, and are now severely compelled to curb their operations. The Antwerp wool sales opened on the 19th. The series comprise 11,600 bales, including 1100 bales of Australian. Isaac Pitman, the originator of Pitman's system of shorthand writing, was banquetted on the occasion of the celebration of the jubilee of shorthand. It is intended to strike a medal commemorattmg the event. J. A. Froude has been converted to the of Home Rule. [Since contradicted.] Two clerks in the provincial Bank of Ireland, who absconded with L 25.000 of the bank's money, have been arrested at Barcelona. H.M.S. Nymphe will sail for Australia after the summer naval manoeuvres. Hong Kong. March 9. The Chinese at Chaifoo are plotting the destruction or expulsion of foreigners. A British corvette has been despatched to the scene. Pa ms, March 10. The town of Biarnetz was gaily decorated in honor of Queen Victoria's arrival. Her Majesty was received with great enthusiasm by the people. President Carnot forwarded a telegram of welcome to Her Majesty. Shares m the Coinptoir d'Escompte are now quoted at 350 Shares m the copper syndicate and in the Tinto mine have also suffered a heavy fall. Washington. March 9 Mr Bayard, Secretary of State, denies that any conflict has arisen between Germany and the Americans at Samoa. Mr Blame discredits the information that an engagement between the Germans and Americans at Samoa could have taken place. St. Petersburg, March 9. The Czar has ordered a searching inquiry into the action taken by Atchinoff, the Cossack leader in attempting to form a settlement in Sagallo, at Tajurah Bay. Russia obtain? the conversion of a loan of 700 million francs. Sofia, March 9. The Regent's manifesto re-affirms the existing national relations. Paris, March 8. General Boulanper. in the course of a speech yesterday, said that the attempts to create a war between Italy and France were criminal. The suicide of M. Rochereau, the manager of the Comptoir d'Escompte de Pans, is attributed to the threatened collapse of the copper syndicate, of which he was the principal financier.