CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 19, 30 July 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright ji'EK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London, July 28. The wedding of the Duke of Fife to Princess Louise of Wales was celebrated in the stnall Chapel at Buckingham Palace yesterday. The Archbishop of Canterbury performed the ceremony. Her Majesty the Queen was presonfc, and among other Royal personages were the King of Greece and Prince Frederick, the Grown I'rince of Denmark. The German section of the Royal Family approve th 6 family alliance to the English nobility. The alliance is received rather coldly by the middle class, while the lower classes warmly approve it. Sailed from Plymouth— E.M.S. Rimutaka. Two of the Australian gunboat cruisers are ready for launching. A German Company is prepared to construct a railway from Perth to Adelaide. It is stated that the Prince of Wales is in debt to the extent of £900,000. His principal creditors are the Rothschilds. Mr Soatnes, solicitor for the Times, has admitted that The Times' witnesses before the Commission were paid in all £40,000. Mr J. White, of Sydney, has entered three horses for the Grand Prix de Pans next year. Pekin, July 27. The Yellow river burst its banks in the Shantung district, and countless lives have been lost. Immense damage to property is reported. St. Petersburg, July 27. The cold rains are retarding the harvest in the southern portion of Eussia, and farmers fear that the late intense heat has ruined the bulk of the crops.