LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 131, 29 April 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright* (PEB UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION). London, April 28. At the annual dinner of the Civil Service Club, Lord Wolaeley ridiculed the idea of the English Navy being^ defeated and Great Britain compelled to surrender in the event of her being engaged in war. He declared that it would be impossible for any enemy to blockade British ports and prevent the introduction of supplies. " At a sale of foreign wool in Berlin there was a fair demand, , and th» prices realised Were about oh a par with those ranging in London. Greasy sorts were, however, neglected. ; '- . Pabis, April 28. Condin, an Italian spy, has beea sentenced to five years imprisonment, and ordered to pay a_ Jine ;of>s|ra thousand f^niSs,:? or slcetchiug JTranoh fortresses. J>^ ,:. ■ : New- Ciaa»|^A^^2&.f The floods in Louisiana hat^d^e-* troyed one-fifth of the sugar jpiiop. The damage' is: ©Btimftted. at OB*imU lion sterling. BosNUi April 27. ) The Fanslavists are; organising deputations to wait on th>iStxltan and pi&v with a view to inducing them to insist upon the military evacuation of . Herzegovina by Austria. ;i _ '"*'■'} ■•'."■'■' ■'.. .' : --'-;_|pr|i, April 2B. ; >: Prince Ferdindn& lias determined to suppress evidence which would tend i to implicate Russia/ in :the conspiracy which was formed by Major Panitzav to dethrone him (Ferdinand). Washington, April 27. Congress has voted 150,000 dollarsifor the relief of the sufferers by thelate heavy floods on the Mississippi. V ;; J^^*a*; April 27. v : Emm Pasha is to :^e accompanied on his expedition to Central Africa by 600 porters, five officers, and abody of. Nubian, soldiers. A clerk who. has. reached^ here from the Equatorial Provinces assert* that Emm's followers revolted becauser Emm- desired to surrender the Equatorial Provinces to the Mahdi and hi» people. . Lisbon, April 27. , Major Serpa Pinto, who recently returned from the bhire district in Africa, has been appointed aide* decamp to King Carlos, and presented with a B word of honour in, recognition of his services while in Africa; -

Beceived April 29, 12,40 p.m. . . SYnNET r This Day. The man murdered in the Domain om Thursday has been identified as DenisO'Connell, who was known to be in possession of a fair amount of money. Vital statistics for April show a remarkable decline in the death rate in Sydney as compared, with the previous month. This is said to be due to the; extreme wet weather experienced. dDBLAXDE, This Day. The barque Crunmock Water, frontCardiff to Port Prince, met with exceptionally heavy weather. One tremendous sea broke on board, washiag seven of tha crew overboard. Four managed to regain the snip, the reaia inier being lost.