CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 4, 25 June 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« , By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEH UNITED PBKSS ASSOCIATION.! London, June 22. At the inquest on thu bodies of those killed in the railway accident at A rmagh, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against six of the railway officials. O'Connor has telegraphed that he leaves for London on Wednesday to prepare for his match with Searle for the champion-, ■hip of the world. In referring to Mr Dillon's Australian tour, the Standard characterises it as fraudulent, inasmuch that the plan as he is engineering is breaking down. On the other hand, the Freeman's Journal declares that the mission is arousing widespread sympathy throughout Australia, and that it an enormous success. The Prince of Wales admits that the leper whom he stated was employed in the London meat market is now in London hospital. The naval manoeuvres arranged to take place in August will be. conducted by Vice-Admiral John Kennedy Baird of the Channel Squadron, and Bear- Admiral Sir George Try on, Superintendent of Nayal Reserves. ' ' The Lord Chief Justice of England (Lord Coleridge) has granted an order \ compelling Mr John Bridge, of the Metropolitan Police Court, at Bow-street to hear the charge of assault preferred against the Duke of Cambridge by the representative of a New York paper, and which wai allaged to have been committed at tbe Fire Brigade demonstration last month. The Pall Mall Gazette states thai Monsignor Persico, who visited Ireland as an apostolic delegate of tbe Pope, asserts he holds proofs that, should he return to Ireland, it is intended to murder him. June 23. Major Egerton, in giving evidence before the Jockey Clvb r asserted he had suggested to Mr Weatherby the propriety of making enquiry into Fullerton^s running. He declared seven jockeys formed a ring and four are still riding. The summons issued against Lord Mandeville by the Public Prosecutor on a charge of fraud has been dismissed. Chicago, June 23. A man named George Brooke has come forward with fresh evidence regarding Dr Cronin's murder. He says he and his sweetheart saw the trunk containing Cronin's body placed on a wagjem, and. afterwards deposited in the sewer. He can identify the men who were engaged in the deed. _^