CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 119, 13 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright | PER UNITED PKE9S ASSOCIATION.} London, April 10. The early retirement of Mr Octavius Y. Morgan as member for Battersea, in the House of Commons, is expected. Negotiations are already proceeding in connection with the next election for the seat, aud Sir Charles Dilke, formerly member for Chelsea, has received a requisition from the Liberal committee-of the district, asking him to contest the ( seat. Sir Charles, howevor, replied that he was compelled to decline the requisition in respect to that and all other seats at present, as his time was fully occupied in preparing for press a great work on the British Empire. In the HoU3e of Commons to-day a Bill introduced by Daniel Coilly, M.P. for Mayo, dealing with the arrears for rent m Ireland, and proyiding for further protection of the improvements made by tenants, was rejected'by a majority of one. The Tasmanian loan of one million inscribed stock, bearing interest at 3J per cent., which is to be offered on Tuesday, is already quoted at a premium of 1^ per cent The wool sales to-day had to be postponed owing to a heavy fog which prevailed in the city. New Zealand meat is firmer, and frozen mutton is now quoted at 4Ad. April 11. Speaking at a dinner at the Institute of Naval Architects, Lord George Hamilton First Lord of the Admiralty, said the courage and skill displayed by Captain Sane and the officers and men of H.M.S. Calliope on the occasion of the receut hurricane at Samoa was not rare in the British Navy, and did not deserve any special recognition. The term of Mr Wm. O'Bnen's (M.P.) sentence has been reduced. He will be liberated on May 22. A boy 15 years old brutally murdered his sister of 11 at Watford, Herts. Th* boy has since been arrested. Captain Hunt, a retired military officer residing at Gospel Oak, near Wednesbury, Staffordshire, in a fit of passion murdered his paramour, an actress named Greene, and then committed suicide. Three hundred leading city men gave a banquet to Mr W. H. Smith last night. In the course of his speech in reply to the toast of the evening, the leader of the House of Commous said he felt confident the cause of the Union would be triumphant if the merchants, bankers, aad manufacturers supported it. " Pabis, April 10. Owing to a strike at Marseilles, the landing of the Victorian and New Zealealand exhibits, ex s.s. Salazie, for the Paris Exhibition, is delayed. Washington, April 11. It has been arranged that the United States warship Alert, the German warship Sophie, and H.M.S. Calliope shall alone represent the Powers at Samoa until the Berlin Conference is over. Vienna, April 11. Russia is massing troops on the Austrian frontier. JSkwToek, April 11. Severe gales have been experienced in Chesapeake Bay, and 35 vessels are reported lost. Zurich, April 11. Further arrests have been made in connection with the recent discovery of a secret bomb factory here.