LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 132, 14 May 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

HEAVY GOLD ROBBERY.

A GRATEFUL BISHOP.

FASHIONABLE GAMBLERS

BAGGED,

MOVEMENTS OF THE KINGS.

By Electne Telegraph. — Copyright \ PER tTKITED PKESS ASSOCIATION, j Received May 14, 12 3Op.i». London, May 13. On tlxe arrival of the Orient Com* panv'B s.B. Iberia, it was discovered that 5000 sovereigns, shipped at Sydney r had been stolen. It is believed the* theft was- effected during: thesteamers stay at Melbourne. The Bishop of Lincoln's defencefund amounts to £20,000. He has published a letter thanking: . members of the Cburcb of England in Australia and New Zealand, for letters of sympathy received from them... Sir P. D. Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, becomes trustee for the* New Zealand Midland Railway Oompan_) r d debentures. On Sunday morning a body of fifty police made a raid on a* fashionablebaccarrat club in Park Place, and took the inmates by surprise. Fifteen werearreated r including Lords Dudley, ; LuTgan, and Paulet ; Messrs Merry and Benzon (the Jubilee Plunger), eighteen thousand pounds in hard cash were also seized. Thfr sameinorning another raid was made on the Adelpbi Club, and forty-seven : gamblers arrested. The statement that the Marquis of Ormond is to succeed the Marquis of Londomderry as Viceroy oi Ireland, is* denied. Paris, May 13*. Visitors to the- Exhibition number 100,000 daily. The Government propose to ask theOiatnber of Deputies to authorise theissue of bonds to the amount of a million and a half pounds (?) to proceed with the Panama Canal works, pending the formation of a new company Belgrade, May- 13. Ex- Queen Natalie has abandoned; her contemplated visit to her son r King Alexander, of Servia, for th» present, on the condition that ex-King-Milan also absents himself from Servia. Caibo, May 13. The rumored capture of Khartoum by El Sonoussi's Lieutenant, towards the end of last month, is false. St. Petersburg, May 13. Senator Durnovo will succeed the* late Count Tolstoi as Russian Minister of the Interior. The Czar visits Emperor William, of Germany, at Kiel in August. King Humbert will pay a visit to Berlin leaving here on the 21st insfc. He will remain in Berlin six days: