CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 17, 25 July 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By .Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPEK UNITiD PBKSS ASSOCIATION | London, July 23. A prolonged session is expected uuless the Western Australian Bill is withdrawn. Lord Dunlo has sailed for Australia, but the music-hall singer whom he marriad continues at the Alhambra. Negotiations have been successfully concluded for floating L 300.000 worth of the Kauri Timber Company's debentures at 5 per cent. The Earl of Hopetourn succeeds Sir H. B. Loch as Governor of Victoria. At the Paris Exhibition. Victorian wools haye been awarded two grand prizes, four gold and six silver medals. The awards are, however, subject to confirmation by a higher jury. The Government intend to push the Western Australian Constitution Bill through its second reading in: order io affirm the principal. The Bill will then j be dropped. ;The Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the subject of grants to members of the Royal Family recommended that an addition of £36,000 be made to the income of the Prince of . Waleg ; the question of provision for the grand children of the Queen to be left open, as Her Majesty intimated that it- was unlikely that any further grant would be asked for. The Court of Queen's Bench refused to issue an «rder of mandamus in the assault case against the -Duke of Cambridge. Pabis, July 23. M. Tirard, the Premier has dismissed scores of officials suspected of continuing their adhesion to General Boulanger. Bebsin, July 22. It is reported that the Dowager Emperor Augusta has joined the Roman Catholic Church.