CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 2, 4 July 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■> ♦•■4 By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PBK UNITED PUKS.S A"s«Opi ATION.) London. July 1. The Financial Nowb says that in future the Colonies will find the pockets of Johji Bull inexorably closed and buttoned against his prodigal offspring. The Archbishop of Canterbury does not believe in free education on the ground that it will enfeeble the Church's hold over the people. Fne Rev. Johnston has been sentenced to one years' imprisonment tor stealing iewellery. The body of James Macbenry, the millionaire, once largely concerned in the Erie railway, has been exhumed at Liver pool. His Kfe was insured for one million, and the companies interested have reason to believe that he committed sui cide by poison, which would render his policies void. * ' July 2. Dr Cooper'has purchased at Haymftrket, for fourteen hundred euineas, r a yearling BarcaUUne— l_*therjne colt. The Imperial FederationnLeague pro.pose to erect a , memorial to the late Sir John Macdonald at St. Paul's Cathedral. Mr TVTorehead, speaking at a banquet,, said it behoved everyone to come to the rescue of Queensland m her present strait.* He regarded with grave apprehension the election of so many labour members in New Bouth v Wales, -which meant that agitators, who never 'oared for the welfare of the labourer, were ready to' seV class against, class. He thought h,e woul^be , f aiUngfin his duty were he now to remain aßseHt from the colony.. "<''.„ *- * * .~v , Another speaker applauded the'rigor- 1 ous conduct of Sir S. Griffiths daring the' shearers' strike, which, he said, had been highly appreciated by the colonists in London. The German^ Anarchists and Socialists in London are' preparing for a hoc tile demonstration upon the 'arrival of the Emperor of Germany. The police are .prepared. '\ " Bbbmk, July 2f: It is now stated that the Emperor did not intend to dismiss Bismarck when the rupture occurred between them. England V attitude towards the Triple Alliance is regarded here as . certain to ensure peace for six years. St, Petebsbtjbg, July 2. Intense activity is being displayed in perfecting the new Russian military system. Two hundred and seventy thousand recruits will be enrolled by the autumn. Additional .ironclads are being constructed, and large quantities of rye purchased. The Rnssian Minister of Finance is suing the Rothschilds for repudiation of contract!'. Washington, July 2. The Pittsburg ironmasters have agreed to a new scale of wages, with a view of securing harmony between employers and employed. Sofia, July 2. I The police have arrested several Ru9» , sian spies and plotters here. Received, July 8, 10.35 a.m. London, July 3. „ Mr W. G. Clapham, a colonial, re« cently deceased, has bequeathed* a sum of £300,000 to charities in Great^ Brit am, Tasmania, and Victoria. He,*however*, stipulates 'that Romanists are I excluded from participation in Ireland. BUCHAEEST, Julj' 3. ' ' Queen Elizabeth used entreaties, and | menace in the endeavours to overcome > the Opposition of Ministers 'of the Crown Prince to Miss Varesco, her Majesty's Maid of Honor* A CONSTANTINOPtK. J.uljjP' 3: Since'th* Ozar'st edict ' enforcing/ttie departure /'of Jews from Bussia, large numbers have made their tray to Palestinp, and it is nqw believed t hey £ are suffering acutely from pestilence and famine. ' Valpahaißo, IJuly'3 Further succefjses of the rebel troops are reported, and the victors declare that as they occupied the town of Huasco the Government troops fled.