CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 151, 16 June 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PER UNITED PHKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 13. The cricket team which. Lord- Sheffield is taking out to Australia will leave for Melbourne on October 2nd. Messrs A. E. Stoddart (Middlesex) and 0. G. Radcliffe (Gloucestershire) have joined the team. The memorial seryice . in Westminster Abbey to-day in honor of the late Sir John Maedonald, Premier of Canada, was a~ remarkable and impressive ceremony. Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales were represented, and all the members of the Cabinet and a large number of members of the House of Commons were present. It is now understood that the Czar is more fayourable to the scheme suggested by Baron Hirsch that the Jews should leaye by - gradual emigration, but he is desirous that the time allowed them in which to quit the country should .be reduced from 20 to 12 years. The employes of the London General Omnibus and London Road Car Companies, who were out on strike, have accepted the latter's terms,' and resumed work. An immense meeting of laundresses will be held in Hyde Park on -Sunday, when resolutions will be moved urging shorter hours. Baron de Worms, . Political Secretary to the Colonial Office, has;' informed the Hon. Thos. Playford, Premier of South Australia, that all' the defence needed at Port Darwin at present is that sufficient to defend the places where the . cables land. June 14. Goyernment has decided to withdraw the Crimes Act from operation in Ireland, except in County Clare and a few baronies. . . ' - . Paris, June 13. The cause of M. M. De Lesseps and other members of the Board of the Panama Canal construction, being prosecuted, is the last issue of capital when the Company was known to be in a' critical condition. The French fleet in Chinese waters has been ordered to rendezvous in the vicinity of the Yang-tae-Kiang River, owing to fresh excesses committed by / Chinese rioters,' and the fact that the latter are being assisted by Chinese troops. Moscow, June 12. The Mayor of Moscow has ordered Hebrews to be excluded from the city hospitals. - Rome, June 11. The Italian Government has consented to a number of agriculturists and experts in fruit growing emigrating to Northern Queensland, and it is expected that about j 350 selected at Piedmont and Lombardy by an agent despatched from London by Sir James Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, will leave for Brisbane towards the end of the month. ' ' ' ■ Ottawa, June 14 ; The Hon. J. J. C. Abbott, Q.C., -who held' position of a Minister without office, has accepted the Premiership of the Dominion. Vienna, June 13. Twenty, anarchists, who were discovered with dynamite in their possession . have been arrested in this city. Field-Marshall Weuse, of the Austrian army, has committed suicide. The cause is attributed to poverty. _ ' Violent storms have been experienced in Galicia, and one village has been entirely swept away. Serious , loss of life has taken place, and fifty persons are known to have perished. Naples, June 13. A severs earthquake was felt at the base of Mount Vesuvius, and the eruption of the mountain is increasing. Madrid, June 13. Many shopkeepers in Madrid are closing their places of biisiness as a protest against the proposed increase of the notes issued by the Government. ( 'alcutta, June 13. Drs Baker and Buckmaster, of Simla, a mountainous district of the Punjaub, have been successful in their endeavours to cultivate the leprosy bacillus. June 14. The trial of the Jubraj, or heir apparent (Kula Chandra Singh), for complicity in the Manipur revolt, concluded yesterday when he was found guilty and sentenced to death. Honolulu, June 13. It is expected that an insurrection will shortly break out in the Sandwich Islands. The conspirators are planning the capture of the Queen . unless Her. Majesty agrees to a modification of the Constitu-.. tion and increases the power of the natives. Vaiopabaiso, June 14 President Balmaceda has rejected the American proposal? for an armistice.