CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 118, 11 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright' JPER UNITED PBKSS A3S<»€t*Tf ON. ( iidk&SJr.^L'pril 9. The fleet will assemble -aifc-^pithead for' the summer manoeuvres -the 16th July. The court-martial on the captain and officers of H.M.S-. Sultan, recently wrecked on the island of Comino, between Malta and Gozo, is concluded. Captain Rice was censured for keeping too close in shore. Jupp, the cricketer, is dead. Dr McGregor, Commissioner to New Guinea, in a report laid on the table of the House of Commons, says the Roman Catholic missions in New Guinea - bava proved useful pioneers of settlement, and urges an increase of Protestant mission*. Great inducements have been offered to Mr" Speight, Victorian Eailway Commissioner who is now on a visit to England, to return to London and accept a position m the Midland Railway Company. It is probable that General Boulanger will reside in England should he be expelled from Brussels. J. A. Froude's new novel, just published, deals with social life in Ireland duriug the last century, and treats on. the mis-government then prevalent. Her Majesty the Queen attended the funeral of the Duchess of Cambridge in Kew Cemetery, and laid a wreath of flowers on the coffin. The Australian horse Eingmaster won the Billesden Welter Handicap at Leicester Spring Meeting easily. An objection lodged on the ground that the horse had not been hnbitually trained in England was overruled. Bio de Janeiro, April 9. The Brazilian Government have instructed their embasey in London to declare that the yellow fever epidemic has ended. Paris, April 9. The Senate will sit judicially on Friday to hear the charges against the deputies and others charged with complicity in the Patriotic League. The Boulangists are noting at Bouen. General Boulanger has sent a manifesto, denying the truth of the report that he conferred with Prince Victor before leaying Paris. Made id, April 9 The Spanish Government have refused the request of China to be allowed to establish Chinese consulates in the Spanish dependencies m the Pacific. Bombay, April 9. The city of Surat was partially destroyed by a fire which rendered 15,000 persons homeless. The damage is estimated at 25 lacs of rupees. *J kw Tobk, April 8. Great storms have swept through Virginia and Mary laud Numerous wrecks are reported oil the coast. By a fire at Savaunah, Georgia, fifty buildings were destroyed. The damage is estimated at 800,000 dollars. The prairie fires in Dakota State are still raging. A train entered a burning prine yesterday, and as it sped onward the rails behind it were destroyed by a fire which was following. The train was partially destroyed, but no one was fatally injured.