CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 127, 19 April 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— rCopyright [PER UNITXD PRKSS ASSOCIATION. | London, April 17. Amy Hoirton (Mrs Hepburn) has been engaged to appear in a burlesque written by Fergus Hume The feeling over the success of floating the Victorian loan is now more sanguine. The Standard asserts there is no enthusiasm oyer the loan, but interested syndicates will secure its being well covered. V - The official average of tho Victorian loan is £101 10s od. The loan is selling at 31s 6d premium. Iti» understood that G. Trevelyan will oppose the Marquis of Hartmgton for Rossendale at the next general election. Tbe rumour that Mr O'Shea's divorce action had been settled is denied. Mr Darnell has filed an answer to the allegations making him co-respondent. The hearing of the action has been fixed for July. A number of English delegates from members of the House of Commons have uone over to Ireland to witness the evictions on the -Ponsonby estate. Troops, have been massed to assist the officers of .' the law in electing the tenants. It i» stated the Germans are bitter at Stanley's reported attacks on Emm, and that ietteis sent to Stanley in. Africa have been intercepted by them. It is reported that Stanley will shortly be appointed Governor of British East Africa. A native cashier of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, has 1 made large defalcations, and the directors of the bank have placed £50,000 to ' the credit of the contingent fund to pro* vide for tbe losses.. Paris, April 16. It is stated that at the time of the | Schnabell incident in April, 1887, a female spy stole Boulanger' 8 plans which . he had drawn up ia the event of that ( offi cia l's arrest leading to an outbreak of % war with Germany. , Berlin, April 16. , Von Caprivi, in a speech delivered be- . fore the Prussian Diet, said he bad no- . thing new to expound, and quoted the i Emperor's saying, that " Tbe course or [ the ship ot State would not be changed." It is understood that Bismarck is , friendly to his successor, but reserves , the right to criticise. . The organisers of the labor demonstra- • tions in Paris deprecate holding a |>ror cession, and advise that a holiday meetr ing should be held instead. Washington, April 16. 5 The State of Virginia has legalised ' prize fights, much to the indignation of . other sections iv the country.