CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 133, 16 May 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION [ London, May 13. In connection with the raid made on a fashionable baccarat .club, in Parkplace, an attempt will be made to prove that Lordß Dudley and Lurgan were only occasional visitors. It is asserted that Lord Dudly lost £5000, and Lord Lurgan £2000. The club in -which the baccarat was played has proved the ruin of many young men of fa-hion, and young Benz jn the plunger was ruined there. Seaton, the proprietor of this g ambling saloon, is a well-known and noted gamester, and the same may be said of Davis, an equally well-known money lender, who supplied ready money to young men on post obits. The raid by the police was made on tbe application of Lord Bateman ; owing to the heavy loves of his son, Captain Win. Spencer Bateman Hanbury. May 14. Obituary. — Irving Bishop, thought reader, from hysteric catalepsy. It is understood that the paper syndicate has increased prices by five per cant. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir James Fevgiaon said no report had beau received by Government as to the alleged persecution of Protestant natives of Mare Island, one of the Loyalty group. The Standard asserts that Germany has declined to sell estates in Samoa, and Has refused to make any promise to refrain from chastising. Baron Eeuter has obtained fresh concessions from the Shah of Persia, which will enable him to establish, an Imperial Bank and work State mines in that country. Berlin. May 13. < The Westphalia colliers stubbornly refuse to agree to the conditions of the masters, who are willing to give an increase of wages, but hold out against the eight hours' system. The strike has resulted in a large number of furnaces at the yarious works being extinguished. The Emperor William will receive a deputation from the colliers in a day or two. The strike fever is affecting artisans throughout Germany.

Chicago, May 13, Dt Cronin, who was reported to have been murdered, has turned up safely in Toronto. He asserts that he fled from here to avoid the vengeance oi the Clau-na-Gael Society. Some.. May 13. Tbe Italian 3overnment will agree to recognise King Melenek as Negus of Abyssinia, providing the English Government is willing to do so. St. Petebsbubo, May 13 Another plot against the life of the Czar was discovered on the occasion of Count Tolstoi's funeral which the Czar attended. Many, arrests were made, chiefly of the military. A number of bombs were found in a house adjacent to the route of the cortege. A hundred detectives mingled with the populace and 1 thus managed to avert the plot.

Washington, May 14. It is suggested that a conference of experts in the treatment of leprosy should be held in one of the European capitals. It is also proposed that a memorial fund should be raised in honour of the late Father Damieu, who recently died at the leper station near Honolulu.