CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 110, 23 March 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright {PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION ( London, March 20. It has been ascertained that Miss Mary Anderson is suffering from affection of the brain, and the disease having taking a turn for the worse, she has been placed in a private asylum for the insane. Her dramatic company has been disbanded. Mr Goschen is appointing a committee of the House of Commons to promote emigration to the colonies. Lord Salisbury, in the course of a speech at Watford, Hertu, said the Government intend to restore order in Ireland, enlarge the scope of Lord Ashbourne's Act, grant local Government, and thereby squelch the agitation for Home Rule. Lord Salisbury in the course of a speech at Watford, admitted that he agreed with the views of the German Chancellor aa to the further government of Samoa. Sir John LubbocV, speaking at a meeting of the L ;ndon Chamber of Commerce strongly urged that the Government should negotiate with the European powers for aa agreement whereby the present practice of capturing private vessels in time of war should be abandoned. He advocated the establishment of a permanent International Court of Arbitration for the settlement of international disputes. Mr Bilchie, President of the Local Government Board, has superseded the London Board of Works in order to prevent the Board ratifying an important contract, which members were inclined to do despite the objections of the London County Council. Mr Chamberlain, speaking on the Irish question, eaid it was time Government gave proofs of their readiness to propose a pubstitute for Mr Gladstone's Rejected Irish Bill. He urged that a comprehensive and final scheme of land purchase should precede any local government proposals. Zubich, March 20. A secret bomb factory supplying Bus eian, French, and British conspirators, has been discovered here. Buda Pbsth, March 20. A student assaulted a member of the Hungarian Diet in the lobby of the Chamber, and, in self-defence, the latter fired at and wounded his assailant. A riot followed, and the military had to be called out to suppress it. Washington, Maich 21. The United States delegates to the Samoaii Conference will leave for Berlin on the 13th April. Berlin. March 21. The editor of a paper published at Charlottenburg has been sentenced to two months' for libelling Prince Bismarch. Hono Kong. March 21. Files received by the mail give details of the wreck of the steamer Eemus. She struck on a rock two days' sail from Manilla, floated off and foundered in deep water. Of 162 souls on board, 42 were drowned.