CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 20, 1 August 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JPEM UN IT ill) PIIKS3 ASSOCIATION [ London, July 3fV The Amoricans liave seiznd the Canadian fishing schooner Black Diamond in Behrin<* Sea. •Sir Saul Samuel, Agent- General for Pvew South Wales, has asked the First Lord of the Admiralty to confer with the representatives of the colonies as to the propriety of giving the ships of the Australian Squadron aboriginal names in place of those already proposed. Mr J. M. Morley's motion respecting grants to the $ounger members of the Royal Family was rejected by 335 to 134 Mr Chamberlain accused the opponents of the grants of being Nihilists in English politics. Dr Tanner, M.P. for Mid-Cork, has been sentenced to a month's hard labour for spitting upon the police. The Trust Funds Bill has passed its final stages. Lord Salisbury, speaking in the House of Lords, admitted that the attitude uf Russia toward the Balkan Principalities is very correct and pacific. He commented favourably on the symptoms of stability and progress in Bulgaria. A fight will probably be arranged between Mitchell and Slavin. Phil Robinson, the well-known war correspondent, has summoned his wife for perjury in the recent case in which she obtained a divorce from him. Vienna, July 30. The Wiener Allememe Zeitung says France and Russia have concluded a formal defensive alliance on the model of the Triple Alliance between Austria, Germany, and Italy. ' Cairo, July ?0. The dervishes have resumed their march northward, and Colonel Wodehouse, with Anglo-Egyptian troops, is following hard upon their track. Pabis, July 30. Up to date Boulanger has succeeded in getting elected for 15 seats, and failed in 70.