CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 5, 27 June 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JI'ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [ London, June 25. Vermin in the hop garden is decreasing, and the prospects of a good yield are improving. In the examination before the Jockey Club to-day, the Earl of Durham implicated Mr" Abmgton with Sir George Chetwynd, and he charged Woods with having " squared" the jockeys James Uoaten, A. White, and H. Luke. In the course of a speech at Wandsworth to-day, Sir James Fergusaon, Political Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said there was every ground for hoping that peace would be maintained throughout Europe during the present year. The Eoyal Agricultural Societies' Annual Show now beiug held in Windsor sor Great Park is a great success, the exhibits of stock being really splendid. In reference to tho issue of a summons against the Duke of Cambridge for assaulting Mr G. S. Simms, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge holds 1% is necessary to assert the principle that in the eyes of the law all subjects are on an equality, In the House of Commons, a Bill providing for the appointment of a Board of Agriculture has passed through committee. Mr W. H. Smith, the leader of the House, has abandoned the District I Councils of England Bill. Chicago, June 24. Arrangements have been made for the immediate extradition of Burke who is in custody on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Dr Cronin. St. Petebsbubg, June 24. The Russian Government have ordered torpedoes to be kept in constant readiness. Paris, June 24. President Carnot accompanied by Marshal McMahon, paid a yisit to the colonial courts at the Exhibition to-day. It is considered certain that the exhibits of Australian cereals will take high awards. Rio be Janeiro, June 22. Sailed, last night — R.M.S. lonic, for London, with her cargo of meat in good condition.