CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 140, 20 May 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PER UNITSD PBESS ASSOCIATION.! London, May 17. Mr Newton, a solicitor, has pleaded guilty to a charge.of hevig coucerned in a conspiracy to defeat the ends of Justice by inducing wituesses against those connected with the Cleveland street scandal to quit the country. Sentence has been deferred. The Marquis of Salisbury insists that the Zambesi and Shire rivers shall be international highways, and that England should not undertake territorial obligations beyond her strengthMr H. M. Stanley is betrothed to Miss Dorothy Tennant, an artist. . May 18. The Bill introduced by Mr E. A. Yerburg, member for Chester, to prevent the sale of frozen meat imported from other colonies as meat killed in the British Isles, has been withdrawn. A conversazione was held at the Guildhall last uight to celebrate the jubilee of the introduction of the penny postage system in the . United Kingdom. The gathering was a brilliant one. amongst those present being the Prince of Wales. Sir H. A. Isaacs, Lord Mayor of London and Mr Cecil liaikes, Postmaster General. Replying to a question, . -ir James Pergusson repudiated the surrender of any portion of Africa to Germany In court, Mr Newton, charged with conspiracy in connection with the West End scandals, stated he was innocent of .the charge of levying blackmail. His clerks were discharged from custody. In the House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury, in reply to Lord Rosebery, said it was not true that Prince Bismarck had insisted on England joining the Triple Alliance, and added that the relations j with Germany had been constantly of a friendly nature. Referring to the dispute with Portugal, he mentioned that parleying had not *yet finished, but Portugal jinust take the consequences if she refused to recognise the freedom of the Zambesi and Shire rivers. St Pktebsbtjbg. May 17; The 'Russian press is incensed at th? speech delivered at Konigsberg by the German Emperor, as it is belieyed to be a . direct threat to Russia. Beblin, May 17 f In the course of a speech at Konigsberg, the Emperor William sai£ Germany would maintain peace because her army was enable to enforce it. , ~ A ferry boat laden with 42 confirmes capsized at Ratisbon, a town of Prussian Silesia, on the river Oder, and 36 children were drowned. In. the Reichstag, General Caprivi , stated that the clear and simple policy of Prince Bismarck rendered the task of | succeeding him an easy one. He mentioned that the Government would .probably make the military service compulsory by all males. [ Constantinople, May 17. The Kurds and Turkish insurgents in Armenia have murdered a number of Christians and burned their churches. JSbw Yobk, Msy 18. One million American workmen have signed a petition to the Czar requesting him to improve the administration of the penal establishments in Siberia.