CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 145, 13 June 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright : JPEI< t'NITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ Nbw York, June 11. The Government intend to devote a million dollars to sanitary purpose in the Johnstown district. London', June 11. It is reported that the Princess of "Wales and the Czarina are in favor of the betrothal of Princess Maud, third diiugter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, to the Czarewiteh. The Committee appointed to cons d r the form a memorial to the late Fafche" Damien should take, propose the estab lishment of a hospital at Molokai and a l#per ward in London. The Oommittee also propose tbat a commission to inquire iuto th? best means to deal with tbe disease of leprosy should be held m India. Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Walea, and the leading members of the nobility of the great cites are makiug ar- | rangements to entertain the Shah of Persia on the occasion of his approaching visit to England. It is rumoured here that Germany and Portugal are preparing to prevent the English colonial empire stretching from the Cape of Good Hope to the Nile. Mr Gladstone, who is spending the Whitauntide recess on a yachting cruise on the South Coast of England, landed at Torquay yesterday and addressed a meeting in the evening. In the course of his remarks he said the Times-» Parnell Commission would cost the country hundreds of thousands of pounds. The delay of the Commission in making tbeir report for 20 months was really tbe action of the Government, and was derogatory to the first principles of decency and justice. Captain Eobert Woodward of H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, the flagship at Portsmouth, has been arrested for contempt of court by not producing under a writ of Habeas Corpus the seaman Thompson, who was wrongfully sentenced for alleged desertion from H.M.S. Cal hope. The personalty of the Duchess of Cambridge has been sworn at L 160,000. Lord Hams is suffering from an attack of diphtheria. Athens, June 11. Peace has been restored between tbe Mabomedai) and European residents of the islands of Crete. Eomk, June 11. The statue erected to the memory of Giordon Bruno, Pantheistic Philosopher, was unveiled to-day, the ceremony being attended with great enthusiasm. His Holiness the Pope was greatly displeased at the enthusiasm shown. Paeis, June 11---i The Prince and Princess of Wales have 1 visited the Exhibition daily since their arrival. To-day they made an ascent of I the Eiffel Tower. , Capetown, June 10. The Done sailed on Saturday for JS' ew Zealand.