CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 57, 31 October 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

MASSACRE OF MISSIONARIES. PRAYING FOR 0. BRADLAUGH: READY FOR A DUEL. ' THE BOCK TROUBLES. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [l'Eii l/NITiD PBIJSS [ASSOCIATION. [ t Lonixjn, October 28. A sensation has been caused in the Church of Scotland over a sermon delivered- .by the Rev Marcus Dods yesterday on the doctrine of the atonement and the divinity of Christ. The sermon' has "excited hostility among his brother clerics, and has caused the initiation of a heresy hunt." ■ «> I In many of the chapels at Northampton yesterday special prayers were offered for Mr C. Bradlaugh. who is dangerously ill. It is reported that Mr William H. Redmond, M.P. for Fermanagh North, i-ai challenged Mr Edmund Yates, editor and proprietor of The World, to tight a duel owing to the latter's strictures on the Puruell party during the recent election for Brighton, in which a Conservative candidate was successful. The New Zealand Conversion Loan is quoted at one and a quarter per cent premium! The Dock ' Companies hare agreed, to abolish the middlemen, but will- thems selves pay representatives to superintend the discharge of cargoes. The dock men are to appoint and pay gangers out of the contract price. The object of the dock men is to gradually secure the right to contract direct with the shippers. The alteration involves an annual loss of £20,000 to the dock companies. The Pelorus.and Persian, two of the Australian gunboats, will be launched in November next. It is expected that all the Australasian oquadron will be completed and ready for sea by June next. The Duke of Edinburgh did not attend the funeral of the late King of Portugal, as he had intended,' being indisposed. Lord Wolseley will attend the ceremony of> uu veiling the statue of General Robert Lee, the Confederate Cominander-in-Chief, at Richmond, Virginia.- - Mr Bradlaugh has been ordered to take a sea voyage for the sake of hip health. Admiral Fairfax has assumed tho duties of a Lord of the Admiralty. The Monte Christo Gold Mining Company is being wound up. Mr William Westgarth, the woll-known financier, died suddenly to-daj. October 29. Mr Shernfeld, formerly President of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers, who has been investigating the technical education systems of America, Germany, and France, considers that of the firstnamed country-is the best adapted to the requirements of the Australasian colonies. Paris, October 28. A report is in circulation that Ferdinand of Bulgaria has been betrothed to the Princess Louise, daughter of the 'Due d'Alencon. The jurors have awarded silver. medals to tho following exhibitors, at the : aris Exhibition : — Ootnt de Jouffray d'Abbaus, ethnographical collection ; Sir W.L. Bullet's birds of New Zealand ; ■ and Mrs Hair's (nee Miss Sperrey) Maori paintings; October 29. The miners in thenorth'of France; who of late went out on strike, have resumed work. A I'HEXS, October 29, ' The Emparor of, 3ermany will leave here for Constantinople on Friday. The Sultan has sent a present to .the Empress oi' a . diamoud collar worth £40,000, St. Petersbubg, October 29. It is reported that the Czar will pay a visit to the Suitau in the Spring. Sebastopol haa been reserved as au exclusively military port. The commercial trade will be removed to Femodosia, a port on the East Coast of the Crimea. ' »San Fbamcisco, October.2B. Advices from Samoa state that the election of Mataafa as King is only temporary until an agreement is arrived at between Great Britain, Germany and America at Berlin, where the conference will be held, when a fresh election will take place. Thubsdat Island. October 29. Information has been received that the Rev Mr Savage, a missionary, some native teacherß, and the crew of the London Mission vessel-Mary, while visiting the natives at Debeer on the east side of Kewei, New Guinea, , have been massacred. No further details are- to band.