CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 107, 4 March 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

. — * — _^ — By Electric Telegraph.-^Gopyright \YVA\ U-.VITIiD PRBSb ASSOGIATION. { Lowdok, March 1. In the libel action Sir Morell Mackenzie v. Steinkopt, for alleging that the plaintiff conspired to deny that the disease from which the late Emperor Frederick of Germany suffered was cancer, JBI6OO damages have been awarded j and Sir Morell also recovers the sum of from The Times for publishing the statement. Mr Mapleson, theatrical manager, is arranging for a company, to include Madame Melba (Mrs Armstrong), of Aua tralia, for a tour through America. At a meeting of the Durham and Northumberland .miners, resolutions were carried "rejecting State compulsion of eight hours' labour. The Nonconformist press denounces Mr Mprley's compaot on the free education question. The Spectator states that England is helpless regarding the surrender to the Victorian Divorce Bill, and considers it would be better to abandon the right of yeto. It adds thai the alliance with the colonies at present is one-sided, being all freedom with Australia, while all responsibility; rests with England. The Durham miners have accepted an increase of a per cent. . Father Kinsell. who was. sentenced 'to two mouths' imprisonment for building huts for evicted, tenants, has been liber* ated owing to a technical error in the order of arrest. Washington, VJareh I. Mr Kincaid, a reporter on the Louisville Times, shot i£r Taulbec, late member for Kentucky, in the corridor of the Capital. He, was taken luto custody. : j WaSsav, March 1. Hundreds of infanta, have been murdered here by. cnmiaalS; and theiragents throughout the country by the babyfarming system. ' . " ■:.'■ BebMNv AXardi 1. Socialists baye beeu elected at Munich, Lubeck, Mannheim, "and Frankfort. Herr Bebel has been defeated for Lmpsic. Four Badica's have betiii elected i< r. Berlin. The party has gained largely in the provinces. The Socialists have gamed ■tax. more seats aud the Cartels have lost six. : Rio dk Janeiro, February 28. The B.M.S. Biumtaka arrived here today, aud reports all pksßengers well, and her cargo of meat in good condition... Oajphtown, Muroh 1. Sailed— B.M.S. Ruapehu for New Zaa land.