CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 57, 30 October 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— ♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (J'Elt UNITED PItKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 28. Sir Tnos. Geo. Freak, Bart., who was arrested on the charge of having decoyed Mr Edward Gibson iuto the cellar iv an empty mansion, and then obtained the key of Mr Gibson's locker in St. George's Ulub, and removed and destroyed letters and portraits of Mr Gibson's mistress, has, along with another defendant, compromised the case by paying the sum of £1200. The man Badcliffa, formerly a clergyman at Christchurch, New Zealand, and who was committed for trial last month on a charge of larceny, has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. A unconfirmed report has reached Lis- • bon that a detachment of the BritishAfrican men had a severe fight with the natives of Matabeleland and that the former lost 200. The Irish bishops have issued a pasj toral condemning boycotting and the Plan of Campaign, and appealing to Government to prevent deplorable results from the potato blight. Zawzibab, October 28. The Sultan of Witu haying declined to hand over to the British authorities the murderers of several Germans, the British troops have destroyed the villages occupied by those who were implicated in the murder. The force is now march* ing on the capital. Madrid, October 28. Cholera still rages here, and of those attacked 50 per cent succumb. Pabis, October 28. President Carnot will visit Moscow in May next. "*■