CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 144, 11 June 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jI'KH UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | JSew York, June 9. Alexander Sullivan denounced Dr Cronin as a personal enemy and perjurer and had expelled him from the Brotherhood. He is a British and not an American citizen. Lecaron assured Luke Dillon that Sulliyau 18 the murderer of Cronin. The evidence is thickening against Sullivan. President H arnson accepts the Queen's message of sympathy upon the Johnstown catastrophe as an expression of a gecer - OUB character on the part of heraelf, and indicative of the goodwill of England towards the United States. The wife of a leading citizen of Johnstown was found alive in the debris. A coffin was found containing a corpse partly burned. Workmen have begun operations in the Nicaragua canal at the Grey town cud. A shock of earthquake was experienced in New York but no damage was done. London, June 7. The mark Degree of the United Grand Lodge of England has decided in favour uf the colonies assuming the title of Districts Grand Lodge, with power to regulate their own fees. Mr Bourke the Engineer of H.M.S. Calliope, has been promoted as Fleet engineer in recognition of his gallant services in bringing the Calliope out of Apia Harbour. The public prosecutor has issued a summons against the bankrupt, Lord Mandeville on a charge of fraud. Zanzibar, Jane 1 . Captain Wissman has captured Saaiidam and Wmdrji, which were in the occupation of the natives, with little resistance. Massowah, June 7. It is rumoured that General Eas Aloula is assembling an army to retake Kerens, recently occupied by the Italians. Madrid, June 7. Severe shocks of earthquake have been recently experienced in the town aud an immense amount of damage was done. Several deaths are reported. Paris, June 7In the Chamber of Deputies, M, Spuller, Minister of Foreign Affairs, replying to a question, stated that France considered the proposed conversion of the Egyptian preference debt of such importance as to justify an examination of the questions of the early evacuation by the British Two officers attached to the Minister of War's Department, named Rieckert and Feuchat, have been arrested on a charge of Boulangerism. Bkttsse:ls, June 7. The Marchioness Chasteular has been murdered by a tenant farmer, near Maulfax, owing to a dispute as to the amount of rent for his farm.