LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 7 December 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

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- . (per united press association.) Lo>.don, December 6. Speaking last .night at Edinburgh to an aud ence of 10,000 pel-sons, Mr Balfour, Irish Secretary, vindicated the passage ol the Crimes Act, -and said that Mr Gltid stone had encouraged crime in Ireland.

The owners of the steamer Glencoe, which came into collision with the barque Largo Bay, in the English Channel, on the_ sth February last, appealed against the decision of Justice Sir Charles Butt, of the Admiralty Division, that" the collision was due to the carelessness of the Glencoe. The appeal was heard yesterday, and was dismissed. The Largo, Bay was bound for Auckland when the collision occurred.

' Bubear, the English oarsman," sailed for Australia per E.M.S.' Oroy. \ The Departmental Committee appointed by Mr Goschen to report ,on the investment of trust funds in Colonial securities, have approved the suggestion of the Colonies that this should be done, and also favour the Bill drafted by Sir F. D. Bell dealing with unclaimed Btock dividends, which it is proposed to introduce into Parliament next season.

Oscar Dickson, ,an iufluental. Gottenburg merchant, offers to defray the' expenees of the expedition to the North Pole. '. He proposes that the expedition should be under the. leadership' of Dr Fritzjof Nansen, who returned to England from a journey across the inland ice of Greenland, from east to west, in June last. Constantinople, Dec. 6. The Sultan will visit Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburg next year. Berlin. December 6. Prince Bismarck is recovering from his recent illness. Washington, Dee. 5. Mr William Windom, Secretary to the Treasury, proposes to repeal that portion of the Bland Act under which the coinage of silyer is restricted to not less than two million dollars monthly. He suggests that Treasury notes should be issued against deposits of silver bullion payable I on demand at the market rate' of silver. Received December 5, 12.5 p.m. JS kw York, December 6. The death is announced of Jefferson Dayis at Beauvoir, Mississipi. , London, • December 6. The absence of Parneil from the recent Nationalist meetings is cau si;- « considerable comment throughout lioi nd especially so as his whereabouts at tlie present are unknown to the public. Melbourne, This Day. The stewards of the V.B.C. Club have virtually decided jio increase the Melbourne Gup stakeslo jGIO,OOO.