CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 51, 17 October 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jPE 1< UNITED PR KSS ASSOC I ATION . [ . London, October 14.

In the sculling race between Matf arson and Bu'iear the former was the favourite, 21 to 20 being laid on him Matteraon was the first to get away, and was never threatened at any part of the race, eventually winning easily by six lengths. Time 22uiin 2sec. The Earl of Galloway, who was committed for trial on a charge of assaulting a girl, stood his trial to-day, -when .he was acquitted. The schoolboys' strike shows signs of j fizzling out. Vice-Admiral John Erskine Baird, of ' the Channel Squadron and Kear-Admiral Tracey have been instructed to proceed to Berlin to return the Emperor William's visit to the British fleet at Kiel. The employes of the London bakers at a mass meeting to-day decided to demand sixty hours as s week's work, and any time beyond that to b» paid for as overtime tJniess their demand is granted they say they will go out on strike. The accountant employed to audit Mr Burns' accounts has certified that the money has been honestly disbursed. Sir Charles Pilke, speaking at Bradford, condemned the partition of Afghanistan. He considered that Home Buls was a trivial question compared with the interests of the colonial dependencies of Great Britain. October 15. The Shaw, Saville and Albion Company's steamer Coptic returned; to RioJaneiro yesterday leaking. She has been ashore on the Brazilian coast. Much astonishment is expressed in Anglo-Colonial circles at the exaggerated nature of the telegrams respecting the dock strikes published in some of the colonial papers. A charter has been granted to the British South African Company with a capital of one million. Its object is to directly colonise the Zambesi region. The Dukes of Abercorn and Fife and Cecil Rhodes are the principal prompters. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says M. Freycinet has decided to double the strength of the sixth army corps stationed on the German frontier. ; Dr J. E. Kenney, M.P. for South Cork, states that the funds obtained by Mr Dillon's colonial tour will support a a monthly average of over five hundred evicted families. The details of the expenditure on the plan of campaign are promised at the conclusion of the struggle. .Rome, October 15. The Italian Government intend to declare a protectorate over Abyssinia. Pabis, October 15. M. Joubert, contractor for decorating the Victorian Court at the Exhibition, threatens to seize the exhibits because Mr Walker, ex-Minister of Customs, refused to settle accounts until the architect gives his certificate. " .. : Capetown, October 14. Sailed, yesterday — It. M.S. Eaikoura, for Hobart and New Zealand. Bebmn, OotoVr 14. A partial increase has been granted to the blensburg dock labourers, and they resumed work. The Czar has gone to Mecklenburg, fie took a cordial leave of the Kaiser, and the two monarchs were markedly friendly in their farewell greeting. Prince yon Bismarck is reported to have said that he believed politics would not be in any way affected by the meeting of the two Emperors. ArHENS, October 14. News from Crete states that the Turkish soldiers engaged in representing the disturbances are much harassed by the constant attacks of the insurgents, and have suffered seyeral severe repulses.