CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 135, 21 May 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright JPER VNITSU PRESS ASSOCIATION |

London, May -18.

All hope of saving BJ.M.S. Sultan whioh struck on a rock in £jie vicinity of Malta, has been abandoned, and efforts are now being made to save bor £uns aud other portions of her armament. The motion tabled by Mrll. Labouchere m the House of Commons, in the direction of abolishing the House of Lords, has been rejected by a majority oi 41, It is intended to hold a grand military review at Aldershot during the visit of the Emperor of Germany to England. The medical gentlemen who performed the autopsy of the late Irviug Bishop, tbe thought reader have been arrested ou a charge that the body was dissected contrary to the provisions of his will. Bail was allowed.

Peter Jackson, the coloured Australian fighter, will it is believed, shortly arrive m England, when he will accept the challenge thrown out on behalf of Slavin.

The personal estate of the late Sir Thomas Gladstone has beeu sworn at L-5.,000.

The informant who laid the charge against Lord Mandenlle, son of the Duke of iVI anchester, for obtaining the sum of L 1350 by means of false pretence, refuse! to offer any evidence iv the case but the magistrate who heard the preliminery stage i-ftists on the charge being proceeded with, and has instructed the public prosecutor to take action. May 19.

Heun Rochfort, French political refugee, has been arrested for attempting to shoot Pilotol, an artist, in Regent street It ia asserted that the latter first assaulted Henri Rochefort. General Boulanger offered bail for Rochefort on his arrest being effected, but the offer was declined by the police. Mrs Adams, widow of Stephen Adams, has been arrested on a charge of poisonher husband's brother, Maybrick, merchant of Liverpool.

Berlin, May 18. One-third of the Westphalia strikers have arranged matters with the colliery proprietors and returned to work. The strikers in Salesia, a province in the south-east of Prussia, still hold out, and and show a menacing attitude toward the troops. They have wrecked several of the colliery buildings. A conflict took place between the military and the miners, during which one of the latter was shot. May 19. The Fremdenblat says that the Emperor's action iv receiving the deputation from the strikers will be ever memorable. It is not the length of a monarch's reign nor his rale, but bia labours that make him a supreme mediator aud arbiter in the cause of truth.

During the debate on the Workmen's Insurance Bill in the Reichstag, and while Prince Bismarck was speaking, Herr Richter interrupted the Chancellor, interjecting the remark, " bosh." Bismarch retaliated, commenting on the impudence of the interruption. Herr Bauberger, another member thereupon violently attacked BismaTck, who retorted by calliug Banborger a fool and left the Chamber in a rage. A tumult ensued, and the Reichstag adjourned till Monday. Rome, M»y 18. His Holiness the Pope was taken suddenly ill to-day, and his condition causes a good deal of anxiey, as he ia very weak. Valencia, May 18. The Archist and Republican agitators made a determined effect to seize and loot the town of Succa to-day while the male portion of the population was working in the fields. The conspiracy was, however detected by the gendarmes, and the ringleaders were arrested.