CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 29, 22 August 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric, Tetegrapli.-^Gopyright JPER UMT£IJ PRKSS ASSOCi.ATI«>Nr.[ ; "Londok, August 20. Mr ,R. Norton, MiP., in :k ;letter : ;to The'Tfuie-v contends that Western Aus traha under self-Government .^ould be able to dispose of her lands, more favours ably to immigrants than could the Imperial Government; : .'-:?>"v Mr F. 0. Lieht, the sugar expert, declares the yisible stocks and floating cargoes of beet sugar to be 641,000 tons. The production of eleven months ofthe year show an increase of 209,0u0 tons, Sir William Robinson, of Victoria, succeeds Sir F. N. Broome as Goyernor of Western Australia. , v Admiral Tracey, who with Admiral Tryon, is defending England, has cap tured off Brest the ships Hero, Gamperdowa, aad linmortahte, attached to the attacking fleet under Admirals Baird and Irvine. A serious outbreak of scab among the sheep is reported from Lincolnshire. ; Mr Matthews refused to receive a deputation of the House of Commons on the Maybnck case. An excited meeting has been held m London in. favour of a reprieve. Judge Stephen has had a conference with the Home Secretary. The Judge approves the verdict. A man, name unknown, has been murdered on the London and Brighton Railway. Two sailors sleeping in the forecabm of a torpedo boat were suffocated during the nayal manoeuvres. A verdict of murder was returned in the last Whitechapel tragedy. Searle is not very well. At present he scales 12st stripped. O'Connor is in splendid condition. Sir James Fergusson denies the statement of the approaching alliance between England and Germany. The European Mail thinks O'Connor will beat Searle. . Dr Baird, in a letter to the Medical Journal, opposes the May briok verdict. Boulanger asserts that the conviction is the result of a corrupt compact between the Chamber of Deputies ana the Senate for the purpose of preserving the latter' s existence. He is confident the result of the general election will reverse the verdict. Paris, August 19. President Carnot presided at the Mayor's dinner. In the course of his speech he said that the present Republic would continue the policy of France as in 1789. He appealed to the Mayors to support the Republic. Boulanger denies that he eyer embez« zled 120,000 francs. The money was expended by his son-in-law, Captain Bnant, on disabled soldiers. New York, August 19. Sullivan has appealed against the sentence passed on him, and has been liberated on bail pending a decision. The Anti-Cronm section of the Clan-na-Gael picnic haye given 2000 dollars to Parnell Defence Fund. The Oronin seiition of the picnic offer a reward of 5000 dollars for the detection of the murderers of Dr Cronin. Mr Terry, barrister, of California, struck Chief Justice Field at the railway station, Lathrap, and Deputy-Marshal Nagle shot him dead. Terry was angry at the Judge committing him for contempt in the Sharon case in 1887. Terry's purpose was suspscted, and Nagle was authorised to defend Judge Field. At the inquest the latter was found guilty of shooting, but will probably be acquitted. Terry's wife was Althea Hill, who claimed to haye been married to Senator Sharon and brought a suit against him, which lasted for s considerable time, and excited great mt nest in California She threatens reyenga for the death of her husband, and has since issued a warrant against J idge Fieldi whom she accuses of compl ci 7. Kilrain the pugilist has now been arrested. The grand jury are now trying Sullivan for his share in the fight. Belgra.dk, August 10. Ex-King Milan has gone on a visit to Vienna. His endeavours to prevent Queen Natalie visiting Belgrade haye failed. Athens, August 20. Chaker Pasha, the new Goyernor of Crete, has proclaimed martial law. St. Petebsbubg, August 20. The Czar has decorated the leader of the party in Bulgaria who was mainly instrumental m the oyorthrow of Prince Alexander. Constantinople, August 20. There is a fesliiiff of unoasiness in Arineuia, as it is feared that an insurrection is about to break out. A peremptory order has been issued to all mhabitltants to surrender their arms. j Thirty thousand Turkish troops aid eight warships have been sent to Crete. The iiitirrection is now subsiding. Beblik. August 15. The Emperor of Germany has arranged a rapprochement between England and the Triple Alliance, the terms of which are to be rearranged by • the Emperors of Germany and Austria. A new smokeless and noiseless powder has been successfully tried in a sham fight at Spandan.