CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 122, 8 April 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

"" '•■ ♦.' ' — —■ ' By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (per united prkss association. [ y- London, April 2. Two thousand masters have conceded, the bootmakers' demands. .The Executive has confirmed the sentence of death passed on George Davis, for the murder of his father at Crewe. - There is a great movement on foot to obtain a reprieve for his elder brother Richard, who also lies under the sentence . .of death., .... . „.....,,,.... , : -,-:7w.-^ New Zealand butter, 965 ; cheese, best quality averages 48s. ..-,, ; t , Aprils'. The Economist asserts that the real estate of Victoria is unsaleable. • In the course of a speech, Sir T. Esmonde, one of the Irish delegates to the colonies, said that the Melbourne Argus ' and Age wero the only two papers in : Australia opposed to Home Rule for Irelaud. . In his letter to the Morning Post on the Irish Land purchase Bill, Lord Ran-; dolph Churcbill declares that if it passes into law it will lhyolve a loss of ■£20,600- 1 000, while the loss .'entailed under the Ashbourne Holdings. Act 1888 would be only nine millions. He considers the security to be giyen, unworthy of. trust, ... and; that the scheme of Mr Gladstone is much superior to the proposal under con . sideration. Mr Stanley thinks Emm Pasha ungrateful for departing to Central Africa , without returning thanks for what he (Stanley) had done for him. He stated that the Khedive also expressed disgust at Emm leaving Zanzibar.' Vienna, April 5. The Austrian press declares that Russia is on the verge of a general explosion, 'and that' she is inciting Servia and Montenegro to attack Bulgaria; while tbe latter, acting under the advice of Austria, seeks to :« void a quarrel. In the meantime Bulgaria is fortifying the Plain . of Sliyiuitzka. ■' „ Paris, April 5 Notwithstanding the great outcry raised at the proposal to engage Sarah Bern? hardt to represent the Virgin. Mary in the " Passion" ;play m Paris, she toot the character, and a great sensation was caused throughout France. The French Government have decided to send three warships to rendezvous on the coast bf Dahomey to assist the in><>ns in 'obtaining reparation for the arrest of the Governor of Senegal and other French subjects. .7 France is blockading the Dahomeyau coast to prevent the importation of munitions of war to tho natives. ( ? a r Berlin. April 6. '" An order issued by the Emperor renders the middle class eligible for the position of officers in the army. It increases the pay, .prohibits luxury, and the promotion of offenders is stopped. St. Ektersbuho, ! April 5. ..;■;' The Czar has abandoned his annual visit to Gatscluna, owing to the discoyery of bombs in the vicinity of the • palace. The St Petersburg prisons are crowded with students arrested in connection with the recent disturbance. Many of those arrested have been deported to a distance and some of tbe leaders haye been forced • into the army in Central Asia. The Czar is slightly indisposed, having suffered a relapse from an attack of influenza. The students of St. Petersburg .assembled and sang the National Anthem to vindicate their loyalty. Rome, April 5. Sued; an Italian faster, has subsisted for 18 days on water- aad painkiller, and is hopeful to endure fasting for 40 days.