CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 February 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■ -♦ By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jl'lSll U.NITj.I) PRKSS ASSOCIATION. I Lo.vdon, February 12. A testimonial and a purse of 000 sovereigns, raised by the Sportsman, m honour of Slavin's plucky conduct during his fight with Smith, baa been presented to the Australian. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,1-36,000 quarters and for the Continent 400,000 quarters. The American. visible supply is estimated at 30,750,000 bushels. It is rumoured that Mr Ealph Disraeli is to be raised to the peerage. ' Lord Salisbury insists that the Nyassa and Mashona lauds shall be regarded as British territory, and the remainder of the disputed country delimited in a regular way. ' Sir Arthur Gordon retires on a pension. Bebin, February 11. The Emperor William expects England to be lenieut with Portugal. Distressing scenes took place at the funerals of the miners killed at the Newport colliery accident. j Returns just published show that 7J millions extra were expended on alcohol in 1889. . Mr Parnell was re-elected chairman and Mr Justin McCarthy vice-chairman of the Irish party. Pabis, February 12. The Duke of Orleans was allowed, ten days in which to appeal against his sentence. There was great excitement when the result of the trial became known. Eival partisan cries we're raised, and the Oourt had to be cleared. . . - The commission appointed to inquire into the affairs of the Panama Canal Company and the prospects of the undertaking, will report in fay our of the continuation of the work. February 13. At his trial the Due D'Orleans made no defence- to the charges laid against him but said that he was confident -of the sympathy of two hundred thousand conscripts. The* sentence of two years' imprisonment was received with murmurs, and over a thousand people invaded the precincts of the Court shouting tc Vive Le Due D'Orleans I" " " Down with the Bepublic!" . ■ Lisbon, February 12. The Portuguese press violently at-, tacks the British Consul at Oporto for . declining to recognise . the challenge [ issued to him by Signor An .ni I*. The . feeling agaiust. England still exists, and , yesterday being a month since the Engi hah ultimatum was received, many of ; shops have been draped in. mourning, i eyidently as a testimony of the sorrow . ,and indignation the proprietors feel in the . ' submission of Government to the demands of Lord Salisbury. Ottawa, February 13. The Catholic residents attacked an ' evangelist meeting held here, and serious > noting ensued.