CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 1, 18 June 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jl'E'- i'MT.-iD PRKs? ASSOCIATI :y | London, June 14 The Provost of Edinburgh will not attend the ceremony of conferring the freedom of the city on Mr Parnell. Seventy- four deaths resulted from the Armagh railway accident. Whole families were destroyed- The Queen has sent a message of condolence to the sufferers. The Cork Defence Union have declared a dividend of 31 per cent on the capital invested in working boycotted farms. The Spectator, in referring to Mr Dillion's explanation with reference to the funds of, the .National League, aays it entirely overthrows the contention of the Parnellite party that the movement is conducted on solely constitutional lines. It asserts that the League is - unable to obtain funds in England without explaining for what purpose they are expended. It adds that the delegates therefore prefer Australia and America as a field for collecting subscriptions, as in those countries no questions are asked. 3eneral Boulanger asserts that on the <T* of Schnabell incident he, when French Minister of War, secretly equipped an. Army Eeserve Corps, thus giving France a total of 600,000 troops over the strength of the German Army, but Fearon'a hostility led to a revolution, which enabled Germany to regain equality. . There is a poor demand for New Zealand hemp. Sixteen hundred bales were offered at, to-day's auction ; sixty bales only were sold, at prices ranging from £29 to £31. The prospects of the harvest in England are very promising. It j« expected that the yield in France will reach the ayerage, but the drought has to some extent damaged the Russian harvest and both in Germany and Austria certain parts have been affected by ; the same' cause. The publication of the result of an interview between General Boulanger and a representative of the Figaro newspaper respecting the equipment of the French Army in connection with the Schnabell incident is causing a good deal of sensation in political circles both in Paris and Berlin. Woods in his examination before the Jockey Club to-day, admitted receiving presents for tipping the probable winners He had at various times lent large sums of money to Sir George Chetwynd, and had noi been repaid. He admitted that he was worth £100,000. Mr Gladstone has met with unexampled enthusiapm in his tour through Cornwall, especially at Launceston and Plymouth, Paris, June 14. The following is the result of the race for the grand Steeplechase de Paris, run at the Anteuil Meeting :— Torpeilleur, 1 ; Sitch, 2 ; Fairfax, 3. Berlin. June 14 The Nord Deutche Zeitung and Vossische Zeitung both agree that a struggle between Russia and Germany is inevitable.