CABLES NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 45, 3 October 1889, Page 2

CABLES NEWS.

" — •# By Electric Telegraphs — Copyright - JPEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Lqjsdon, October 1. The proposed l^ cotton corner has collapsed. .-• "-' The fauiilyjifitue Prince of Wales will attend the marriage of Princess Sophie of Prussia, third of the late Emperor of .Germany, to PriuceOonstan- ; tine, Duke of Sparta, Heir to the Throneof Greece, ; which will shortly take place in Athens. - ■•■:.- Lieutenant Francis Tottenham, who has' just been "appointed to "HvMiS Royalist, has committed.- suicide at Devonport. No reason. is assigned. The Belgrade correspondent of the Standard alleges that thie- Government; forcibly prevented King Alexander meeting Ins mother, ,' . The cottonstrike in Lancashire is only partial. The operatives are attempting to coerce non-Union masters into employing none but Unionists • ; , Belgrade, October 1. Ex-Queen Natalie has paid, a visit to her son, King Alexander of Servia. ■pAßis, Octeber 1 . The Tribunal of Commerce has cori-i---demned the joint Directors of the Comptor d'Escompte de Paris' and the Sbciete des Metaux to payto the : liquidator; of the first-named institution the. sum of 12,000,000 franca* the Directors of the (Jomptoir d'Escompte to 6,000,000 francs, and the auditors, 1,000,000 francs in addition. ; ; ; : Dunug the ceremony of presenting the prizes to-day, President Oarnot andM.M; Tirard and Britain^returned thanks on^ behalf of France to the exhibitors : whd'had shown their goods at the Exhibition. " General Faidherbe is dead, setafr 71 . Eottebdam, September'SQ. Dock labourers have been offered 4d per hour, and demand sd. English dock-, men are being imported to supply their places. . '. .--