CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 27, 17 August 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

{.Per s.s. Hauroto.J London, August 9. Baron de Worms announce! in the House of Commons, that he had received a petition, signed by 90 residents of Albany, protesting against granting Possible Government to Western Austialia but he attached very little importance to it. A good- bearing reef, yielded ioz to the ton, has been discovered in Norfolk. In the House of Commons during the course of a speech, Mr Balfour accused Mr Timothy Harrington of having de scribed the Irish police as "uniformed bloodhounds." Mr Timothy Harrington demanded proof, to which Mr Balfour merely returned a contemptuous gesture. Wi'd excitement prevailed, during which Colonel Saunderson and Thomas Sexton exchanged personal threats. The Morning Post states that the scene was never equalled iv the history of the House of Commons. Emperor William, at a banquet, replying to the toast of his health, expressed the hope that the friendship that had so long existed between the British and German soldiers would continue. He promised to do all in his power to maintain good fellowship between the two nations. Her Majesty has left the Isle of Wight in the Imperial yacht Holienzollern, on his return to Berlin. Cairo, August 8. Those of the dervishes who succeeded in escaping from the attack of the British and Egyptian troops were reduced to such extreme distress that over 2000 voluntarily surrendered. New York, August 8. Burke arrived in Chicago in charge of an American police escort. The train by which he trayelled was fairly mobbed by excited Irishmen at several stations along the route. News from Hayti shows that the revolution continues, and that the Southern troops under Legitime are literally butchering the followers of Hippolyte. Paris, August 8. Boulanger's manifesto has created an immense sensation. Ottawa, August 8. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company have decided to apply to the Australian Government for a subsidy for the mail steamers from Vancouver to Australia. Constantinople, August 8. The Porte has issued a proidamation declaring Crete to be in a state of siege. The Powers have replied to the note from Greece, and have given an assurance that they will quell the insurrection in Crete.