CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 144, 29 May 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright |PKR UNITED PfiKSS ASSOCIATION. | > Lokix>n, May 26. Sporting writers express great surprise at the result of the Komp McLean match. The Judge refused to allow Mr Newton solicitor, conyipted of conspiracy, to be treated as a first-class misdemeanantMr Gladstone expeesses suspicion of Tory intrigues with the Pope. Mr Dillon, speaking at Tipperary, said the Australians would feel ashamed of themselves if they submitted to a meet ing being " proclaimed." In the colonies the soldiery were confined to their bar racks Messrs Dillon and O'Brien were banqueted in the evening. The police at Tipperary had their rifles ready in case they met with, resistance. Mr O'Brien advised the meeting to disperse in order to avoid bloodshed. Mr Deasy, speaking at Cork, said that instead of detectiyeß dogging their footsteps in Australia, they on the contrary had police placed at their disposal. The employes of the Gaslight and Coke Company have struck against the introduction of labour saying- machinery. It is hoped that the reduction of the ocean postage rate will comennto force on let June. India has assented. It is believed that pressure would induce. Sir J. iPender to agree to a reduction of the cable rate to 4s per word instead of ss. The Agents -General are conferring on the subject. May 28. The Agents - General have arranged the - following reductions in cable rates:— Four shilling's per word for messages sent by the public; 3s 6d for those sent by Government, and Is lOd for press messages. Nbw York, May 27, SuUivan fights McAuliffe to a finish in August, for a purse of 10,000dol. WABfIINGTON._Maj 27.. The Kepublicans are beginning to deprecate the free coinage of silver, and it is considered unlikely that Congress will legislate in the matter. ' Mr George Francis . Train has completed a journey round the world in 67£ days. Beblin, May 26. The Emperor was thrown from his carriage at Potsdam yesterday, but escaped unhurt. . General yon Capri vi accompanies the Emperor to England in the autumn . Bismarck considers that the Berlin Labour Conference was only summoned for effect, and will, have no political significance. - An anti-Russian plot has been discovered in this city. . . L BEENE.'May 26. The dispute between Germany and Switzerland has been settled.