LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 115, 4 April 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

AN ARISTOCRATIC IDIOT,

BOULAGEE IN EXILE.

By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.

(per pkess association.) Receired April 4, 12 40 p.m. • ... Lom)oir t Apfil 3

The Hon. W. S. Bateman Handury, eldest son of Lord Bateman, has ; petitioned for the sequestration of his estate, owing to gambling .losses. It isieported at one settling recently he lost \J2O,t)OO.

■ . „ .., .... v, : cPißia, April 3. Figaro, the organ, states thai. General -Boulanger and Henry Roch* fort are at Brussels. The General had telegraphed a manifesto to' the effect that he will never consent to" ; be judged by aSenate which is blinded byipejsbnal pas^ Bions, but that he is ready to answer any accusations that maybe brought against him before, a Magistrate or jury ; other^ wise' he will wait. in a free country till the general elections has resulted in the return, pf men who will make the Republic habitable for honest, v free, and^hdnorab.le men. • . ;: SrDsfiT, TlnsDaT. In the House last night Sir Henry Parkes announced that the Government had no intention* to enter into a; contract for the renewal of the Frisco mail service until Parliament had been afforded an. opportunity of pronouncing an opinion on the subject. He further stated that fully 800,000 sheep perished during the- recent droughts. Hobart, This Dav. The issue of a million loan was authorised by Parliament last night. It is understood the loan will not be, placed before July. ••■"... Adbiaidb^ , Th>». Day Heavy rains have fallen in the agricultural districts and great damage is reported to railways, telegraphs* and roads. Mklbooknb, This Day. Lord : Onslow arrived last night. His Lordship visited Ballarat en route from Adelaide. : . ; London, April 2. Tn opening the case for the defence before The Times-ParnelL Commission today. Sir Charles Bussell said 840 witnesses had testified what was milch irrelevant to the issue, and. which was not in existence, viz., Irish Crime. After the collapse of the forged letters, the learned counsel contended that the pith, and marrow of the inquiry had been destroyed. The Court was crowded during the day.

In the House of Lordß Lord Lamingtoa has given noticethat, on the 15th instant, he will ask the Government, If the colonies are agreeable to pay, would the Imperial Government send a feyr "troops ito each colony, with a view of strengthening the ' connection between the colonies and Great Britian. ■ ' "■' /. :; tf-

BebiiN. April 2. The German press, in.. view. ; of jijie recent disaster at Samoa,', urging, .that Sydney should bemade the German 1 naval depot in the Pacific, instead of Satiioa.