CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 10, 8 July 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PER UNITJJI> PBESS ASSOCIATION- 1 London, July 5. Peter Jackson has refused the offer of the Pelican Club to box MoAuliffe for a purse of 1200 soys. The Emperor of Germany is expected bo arrive as Osborne on August 2nd, on a trisit to Her Majesty the Queen. His risit will extend over five days, and he then visits Edinburgh. The passage of the Western Australian Constitution Bill in the House of Commons was warmly cheered. A Bill sanctioning the cession of Heligoland to Germany has been introduced in the House of Commons, and the second reading is set down for Thursday. The Procedure Committee of the House of Commons approved the suggestion that Government Bills should be resumed at the same stage next session. By a majority of two the Committee rejected Mr Gladstone's report against the Government suspensionary schemes. The Daily News asserts that the Government are sounding members -on the question of an autumn session and the passing of the Irish Land Purchase Bill. The same paper Btates that Mr W. H. Smith will shortly accept a peerage, and Mr Goschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will lead the House of Commons. Mr W. S, Came, ex M.P. for Barrow, has written to Mr Gladstone accepting the maiil principle of Home Bole, but reserving details. While some manoeuvres were being carried out at Aldershot a detachment of Hussars collided with a body of Lancers. A wild confusion resulted, during which seyeral were injured. The Captain of, the Hussars was censured. The British South African Company has despatched a strong expedition under Sir Frederick Carrington to Lobengulea County to open up the goldfields. The Statist states that the Victorian railway proposals are a fitting sequel to the glaring financial blunders which have earned for that colony unenviable notoriety, and it is absurd to suppose railway extension alone will ensure profitable development. The error, the Statist considers, is to spend the sum of thirty millions without attracting immigrants. Fifteen thousand Newfoundlanders have petitioned the House of Commons, praying Parliament to grant them relief from French oppression. The captain of H.M.S. Emerald states that he closed Baird's lobster factories owing to a misconception of bis orders. The Newfoundland cruiser Finna has sailed for St. George's Bay to enforce the Bait Act. She takes the Colonial Secretary and the Speaker of the House, who will inquire into the French outrages there. Her Majesty the Queen has presented Miss Dorothy Tenhant, who is betrothed to Mr Stanley, with her miniature set in brilliants and a lock of hair. Her Majesty the Queen was charmed with Madame Melba's singing, and expressed herself prcul of colonial talent. She presented Madame Melba with a superb jewelled broach. Bichardson, a city money-lender, is suing Wertheimei (the co-respondent in the action for divorce brought by Lord Dunlo) to recover the amount of a cheque endorsed by Lady Dunlo. The defend- ' ant and Lady Dunlo allege that the cheque is a forgery, but the evidence points to her intmacy with Wertheimer and others. Moran, the alleged bigamist, asserts that he was divorced at Maitland, in New South Wales, in July, 1887. Paris, July 6. At the trial o" Nihilists iv Paris three were sentenced to five years lmpnson- ■ client and the women were acquitted. The prisoners alleged that Russian police agents instigated the manufacture of bombs. Madrid, July 6. Sagasta has a large majority in the Chambers and country, but resigned because he lacks the confidence of the Crown. It is difficult to form a Tory Government, and the crisis is still unsettled. Canovas has succeeded Sagasta, with the Duke of Lentan as Foreign Minister. Buda Pbsth, July 6. Four women have been sentenced to death, and one to imprisonment for life, and three to fifteen years, for poisoning their husbands. The others were acquitted. St. John's, July 6. Baird has been permitted to re-open his lobster factories. Belgbade, Jtily 5. The Porte has expressed regret for the murder of the Consul at Pristina. The Servian Government insists on compensation being paid to the widow, and military honours to the Servian flag. Constantinople July 5. Sir W. A. White, British Ambassador, has forwarded to the Porte a protest against the atrocities committed in Armenia. In answer the Porte attributes the whole of the Armenian difficulty to agita-