LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 6, 29 June 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— CopyrigkLP"4R UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] London. Jane 28. .- Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, has been betrothed to the Earl of Fife, and Her Majesty the Queen has given her consent to the b«trothal. The Jockey Club have finished taking evidence in the case ot Sir George Chetwynd against Lord Durham, and have reserved their deoision. - ''..".• j Wood the jockey, fainted in Court today, and is now; in a dangerous condition. Before the Commission, Mr Sexton defended what he termed conscientious Feniamsm. He had refrained from joining: the society himself, as he -was not. prepared to surrender his . freedom of action. . A thousand reformed prisoners belong- - ing to the Salvation Army, under the leadership of Herbert Booth, were marching in procession along the Strand, when they came into contact with the police, - - A not ensued, which ended in Beveral arrests being made, after injuries more or less severe . had been inflicted on both • sides. Zanzibar, June 28. ■ All the missing steamers of Captain • Wissman's expedition have turned up safely. Sofia, Jime 27. The rising at Novi Bazar, Bosnia, i» ' increasing, and many Servian Iresidents ' in that country have left for this city. Sydney, June 28. A magnificent diamond has been found . near Invorell, a flourishing township on,, r the Mclntyre Biver, -383 miles north, of Sydney It is a perfect Octahedron, Uv weighing eight carats* ■ ; . ... Received June 29, 12.30 p.m. > to « t don, June 28. , -, The Times says that the French de- ■:. mand for the eyaonation of Egypt by r\ England is merely an electional manouvre. The Shah of Persia will arrive on July 1. Mansion, the Arc&o explorer, whocrossed Greenland last year, is preparing: . an expedition to the north jiole. . Ottawa, June 28. The Premier of Canada, in the course of a speech, let fall the observation that although a century had elapsed since theconquest of the country by England, ther c ' inhabitants of Quebec were still Frenchmen at heart and not oolonised. - <■-:■