CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 136, 23 May 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, May 20. All the gamblers arrested at Park Place have been discharged. The Club owner was fined £,500 and other officials in smaller sums. Henri Bochf ort, arrested for attempted shooting, was bound over to keep the peace for six mouths. -

Mr J. L. Carew, M.P. for Kildare who was sentenced to four months imprisonment haa been released from confinement owing to ill-health.

The Times has paid forty shillings into Court in satisfaction of the claim brought by Mr Parnell.

Mr Gladstone, has received addresses of sympathy and encouragement, which were ioiwarded to him by tbe States of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

It is -asserted that Irving Bishop had previous to his death expressed a desire for a prompt autopsy of his remaius. The doctors state that the body was enclosed in an air-tight box before the autopsy was performed, therefore it was impossible that Bishop was alive at the time of the operation. May 21. The wife of Phil Bohertson, war correspondent, who recently returned from Australia, is suing for divorce. She alleges that her husband forced her to swallow a quantity of morphia which produced insanity and then had her interned in a Lunatic Asylum. General Maitland, Director General of the Ordnance Department at Woolwich, has been compelled to resign his position and also his membership of the Army and Navy (/lub. It is alleged that he was fouud guilty of immorality of a depraved character. I The Piincess Beatrice has been confined of a son. Cabtjl, May 19. The Ameer is forcing the adherents of the rebel Ishak Khan to emigrate. Thousands are proceeding to Bokhara. New Yobk, May 19 In the sculling match yester.'ay at Toronto, O'Connor beat Hamm, Lee, and Pattern. n. Jackson, the Australian pugilist, will remain m America for the present instead of proceeding to Englaud as intended. The Californian Athletic Club are «n---deavouriug to arrange matches for the Australian with Jake Kilrain and others. Bomb, May 21. The military after a severe struggle, succeeded m repressing the rioting by armed peasantry in Lombardy. Paris, May 21. Nearly 300,000 persons visited the Exhibition on Sunday. Ifc is rumoured here that a plot to massacre the French m Madagascar has been discovered. Bebmn, May 22. This city is gaily decorated, and a number of tiiumphalarches are erected in houour of the visit of King Humbert, The press is devoting flattering articles of welcome to the visiting King. In the course of a speech in the Reich stag, Prince Bismarck referring to the utterances of M. Antome, deputy for Metz ( Vlsace-Lorraim<), who recently rev signed his seat and returned to Prance, said it was impossible to forecast the events of 1890 and expressed an opinion that the conquest of France by Germany would be useless if, as in the present case, deputies from the conquered territory were to be permitted to inoculate brother deputies in the Beiehßtag with their opinions. The Westph*han strikes will terminate on Tuesday, the masters having agreed to concede everything except the demand for overtime, on which point they are bound by the regulations of the Standing Committee composed of masters and men. Strikes are, however, spreadin Silesia.