CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 114, 2 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PER UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION. [ London, March 30.

Mr C. Fenwick, member for Wausbeck, moved in the House of Commons to-day that it was expedient that the members of Parliament should receive an honorarium, and he suggested that the amount should be £375 per annum. Mr H Matthews, Home Secretary, ridiculed the compulsory payment of membera> and doubted whether many of them would accept an honorarium voluntarily. Mr (J. B Curzon, member for Southport, in speaking to the motion, said there was not a single working man member in the Victorian Parliament.

The annual boat race between, the Cambridge and Oxford Universities was rowed over the usual course, from Putney to tfortlake, to-day. The Cambridge crew led throughout, and won easily by three lengths. Time, 20inin 14sec.

It is estimated that the sugar crop- at Cuba will be 550,000 tons.

New Zealand hemp, L37 5/- to L3T 10s.

An Australian cargo of wheat has been sold at 35s 9d.

The Ostend-Dover mail boa t r while crossing the Strait, collided with a Belgian steamer, and was blown up-. Fourteen passengers were drowned. Pnnce Victor Bonaparte was rescued The boilers of the mail steamer exploded after the collision. .

In an address to the electors of Enfield r Middlesex, Mr Gladstone declare* that the essence of the Home Bule plan has not undergone change. Dt Dale, the well-known mdependen. minister, in an article in the Con tem port ary Eeview, declares that the establishment of secular schools in the colonieß renders the work of the churches easier, and refers to the magnificent vigour of Methodism in Australasia. He attributes the startling excess of crime in New South Wales in comparison to the other oo'o lies partly to the Anglican Ohurch having lost bold of tens of thousands of rsaonu al adliere it*.

The election of a representative for the Enfield constituency in the House of Commons, in the place of Viscount Folkestone, took place to-day, and resulted in the return of Captain Cowles, a Conservative, by a majority of 1500 over Mr Fairbirds, the Home Bule candidate.

Father McFadden and several others who were charged with complicity in the murder of Deputy-Inspector Martin at Gweedore on the 3rd Feoruary, whilst he was endeavouring to arrest Father McFadden on a charge under the Crimes Act, have been committed for ttial for murder. The Inspector was struck on. the head with a stone, and died in a few hours.

Mr Gladstone delivered a formal panegyric on the late John Bright in the House of Commons to-day. He said his old colleague had been removed from the busy scene of life at a happy moment when the great cause of Freetrade, which he advocated for so many years, was in its full career of triumph. Mr Bright' 8 supreme eulogy was an elevated political life of the loftiest standard, which had become an object of reverential contemplation, and caused his name to be indelibly written on the hearts ol all Englishmen.

The funeral of the late John Bright took place to-day, the deceased being interred in the Quakers' eeuietery, Rochdale, Lancashire. Among thoßfr -who followed the remains were the representative of Her Majesty the Queen and a large number of the members- of the House of Commons and other political bodies. St Petebswjbg, March 29. The Journal de St. Petersburg denies the truth of the report- that Eu* ia is massing troops on the Afghan frontier. PaEis, March 30 The directors of the comptoir d'Esoomde Paris have hay* testified tlftv M. Bocherao, the manager, who committed suicide, had made advances to the Sooiete des Metaux without their knowledge. ■ March 31. M. Cougnard, the well-known French financier has committed suicide. srwYobk, March 30. In the chess tour ament now being held here, Mr Gossip, of South Australia, beat tiohwolter, the American chess champion. Information has been received that the American barque-Albert Russell, 724 tons which left New York for Queensland on February 10th. has foundered, and only two of the crew survived. Zanzibar, March 30. Fighting between tho Germans and Arabs has been resumed in the view ty of Nyassa. Belohadk, March 31. Ex- Queen Natalie has writien to her son assuring him that she has no-inten-tion of returning to Servia at present,