LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 5, 26 June 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ' |l»BR UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 24 The Archbishop of Sydney was consecrated to day. ~~ Sarah Bernhardt, while 'staying at the Savoy Theatre, accidentally took a dose of some hundred grains of chloral. The doctors were called in time and succeeded in saving her life. The statement that Sarah Bernhardt had taken au overdose of chloral proves to be incorrect. ! The Sportsman says all humbugging on the part of O'Connor is useless, and Stansbury is jibw the champion sculler. ; .^ . Mr W. S. Game, the Liberal Unionist whip, will resign and contest Barrow, in order to test the feeling of the electors. ,X Lord Salisbury has notified France of England's intention to cede Heligoland to Germany. A petition five miles long, in favor of compensation to publicans, has been presented to Parliament. It bears half a million signatures. Dissatisfaction is expressed both by press and the public at the vaccilation of Government with regard to the Licensing BiU. June 25. A collision occurred in the English Channel to-day between the barque Ethel, bound from London to Brisbane, and the s.s. Umbilo (of the Natal Line). The Ethel suffered considerably, and sank in a few minutes. Mr White (one of her pasoehgers), the steward, and the second mate were killed by the falling spars, and one of the crew of the Umbilo was also killed. The remainder of those on board the Ethel were rescued. Nrw : Tobk, June 23. Hanlan and Hosmer have arranged a three-mile sculling race at lowa in. July. Half the town of Port au France, in the island of Martinique, has been burned down, rendering five thousand people homeless. News has been received that the President of »*an Salvador Central State died suddenly during a banquet. In the panic consequent on his death, the soldiers killed a general and other officers before order was restored. Mexico, June 25. The revolutionary movement in Mexico is being fomented by American agitators. Sydney, June 25. Heavy weather is raging along the Victorian and New South Wales coasts. Bkisbane, June 25. 0. S. Wragge, Government Meteorologist has warned shipping that heavy weather will ensue in the course of a few days bstween Gabo IslancL and Cook Straits. Melbourne. Juup 25. Two hundred and fifty pounds have been cabled Home in aid of survive ra of the Charge of the Light Brigade. The Agent- General for Victoria wires that £5,000 to £10,000 is required; and that £2,700 has already been subscribed. - Received June 26, noon. London. June 25. Housing of Working Classes Bill has been referred to grand committee.. The Speaker of the House of Commons is disposed to agree with T. Healy's objections that the Government proposal to let licensing fund accumulate is not sufficiently in compliance with the Budget Act. It is expected the Government will abandon the whole of the licensing clauses. Lord Glamilch, First Lord of the Admiralty, in reply to a question, said the comments of the Colonial Press on the composition of the Egeria court martial were not justified. Berlin, June 25. At the request of the Emperor, the Reichstag deferred the debate on the •Anglo-German agreement in Africa until the settlement had been ratified by England, Major Weissman has been ennobled. Pretoria, July 25. v, England's proposals with regard'to ; Swaziland are unacceptable to President Kruger. Melbourne, This Day. • Mr Hayter's statistics show a decrease in Chinese population in New Zealand, Victoria, and . Queensland, and an increase in New South Wales South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. Hobaet, This Day. I The lonic arrived at 9 o'clock last i night and sails at noon to-day. She brings 56 passengers for Australia and 66 for New Zealand. -