CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 113, 30 March 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEH UJTITJiD PBESS ASSOCIATION | London, March 27. Miss Phyllis Broughton, the actress., has accepted LIOUU in settlement of her action foT a breach of promise against Viscount Dungan. The banquet which it was intended to give Mr Parnell has been abandoned. •_ Mr Stevenson's Sunday Closing Bill has been read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority of -22. March 28. The Tory members of the House of Commons have presented Mr W. H. . Smith, leader of the House, with an address testifying to their admiration of the way he has conducted business since occupying that position. A copper bank is being formed with a capital of £1.000,000 for the purpose of gradually purchasing the syndicate's stock at £45 per ton. The case against Dr King, Bishop of Lincoln, charged with ritualism has eon* culded. The bench of Bishops reserved iudgment. Dalgetty and Co. have declared a dividend of eight per cent. By a collision between the steamer Niasyas and the ship Manile, thirty persons were drowned. News has been received of the death of the Hon. Guy Dawnay, who was killed by a buffalo on a hunting expedition in Maeailand. Truth, referring to the recent appointment of Rev. Henry H. Montgomery to the Bishopric of Tasmania, says the rev. gentleman's ability is only of a mediocre order, the attributes his promotion to the influence of Canon Farrar. A mother threw her three children into the Biver Tyne.

skwYobk, March 28. By a foundering of an excursion steamer on Lake Chupala, Mexico, thirty persons lost their lives. Pabis. March 28 Girscudoff, sou of the Swiss Consul at Cannes, was found murdered in a carriage of a railway train at Geneva. Beblin, March 28. The Emperor William was present at the dinner given by Prince Bismarck of the Rechstag.

Washington, Match 28 Mr Robert Lincoln, son of the late President Lincoln, has been appointed American Minister to England. Calcutta, March 28. The Indian Budget shows a deficit of 2.000,000 rupees. St. Petersburg, March 28. An attempt was made to wreck a train conveying the Czar and Czarina from bt Petersburg to Gatschina. Two rails were discovered lying across the line, but fortunately iv time to prevent a catastrophe. Madbid, March _J8 San Sebastian waa daily decorated in honour of the Queen of England. Hot Majesty was welcomed with the utmost enthusiasm.