CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 9 July 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London. Jul j 6. The Emperor inspected the Life Guards to-day. ,„ r ,"' Her Majesty the Queen and Prince of Wales sent messages of condolence to Mr Gladstone, 1 " who has lost hi< eldest son. The, English press generally make sympathetic reference totheex>Premier'*. loss. -' A steamer, name unknown, is' reported to have been sunk in the Channel. •- \ t Mr De Cobain, M.P. for the Eastern Division of Belfast, against whom serious criminal charges have been perferred, will be expelled from the House af Com mons on the<23rd inst, unless he attends to reFute the charges. „ ', _ . The Sev MrSpureeon, Tiliois safftfring from congestion of the kidneys has had a a relapse, and lies in a precarious con" dition. . J - The marriage of Princess Louise of Sch'leswig-Hol stein (granddaughter of the Queen) with Prince Aridert of Anhalt , was celebrated to-day. The ceremony was a very brilliant one. ' r , , At Carlow. where he was carrying out a vigorous electioneering campaign, Mr Part) ell was by a mob, and '• SLitty O'Shea " was burnt in effigy. July 7. In April last a, Victorian £3,000,000 loan, with a winimnm of 97£, was issued, but only two-thirds of the amount was subscribed. The unallotted portion 'has now been sold pb 96, ex dividend, which is equivalent to the minimum at -which the original amount was issued. > Hyndman, the Socialist leader, has been arrested for,- making a speech in which he urged his hearers to use force to obtain their rights. , A cab-driver yesterday deliberately slashed Parnell with a whip. One of the humours of the election is a fox with a kettle tied to his tail and h'uag on a tree. This is supposed to represent Kettle, the candidate, lied to Parnell. There is no improvement in the condition of the Rev' Charles Spurgeon. Sir A. Clark, who was called in, refused to meet Dr Kind, homcepathic practitioner, who^was also engaged in the case. Madeid, July 7. Influenza is raging at Toledo. , St, John's, July 7« Great mortality is reported at Labrador from starvation and the ravages of la grippe, San Fbanctsco, July 8. It is reported here that Mexico is on the verge of a revolution. Siebba Lbonb, July 6 ' A rebellion is expected among the natives of the Cameroons and " Hinter land " of German possessions, in East Africa. Pabis, July 6. The Government has voted a million francs for the purpose of bringing back distressed emigrants from the Argentine. Harvest prospects in Europe are im - proving. The Russian crops promise to be up to the average after all. i Sofia, July 6. A .fracas has taken place between Bul»' garian and Sprvian Frontier-Guards On the Bulgarian side the loss was three killed and several wounded, while only two Seryians were wounded. Capetown, July 6.' v The Portnsn«>«ie exn>»nduion to Beria is in a lamentable plight, and will pro bably ue recanted. St. Petebsbubg, July 1.A waterspont broke over Jekatefinalow causing considerableioss of life and pro* perty. Sixty-nine persons are known to have been drowned, and 15*0 houses' de stroyed. Vienna, July 6. The flight of Baron Hirch's agent from Russia confirms' the miserable state of the Jews there. The Baron proposes that tEe*lsni«p i a tion Committee should grant facilities to enable the Jews to leave the country at once. He belieyes the .Russian '.iovernment is uiiaware of the cruelties that are practised by subordinate officials in carrying out the edicts. Caicutta. July 6; The Kuki and Naga tribes on i the borders of Manipur are raiding each other. New Oblbans, July 7-i ' Barton Eogue, a city of Louisiana^ on the Mississipi, has been visited by a tornado, which destroyed the prison. Ten of the prisoners were killed oatright, and many others injured. The steamers Dunholme and Kinloch collided in the English 'Channel, and m the confusion a number' of the orjew jumped overboard Seventeen are re- f ported missing. / New Yobs:, July 7. Pour murderers have been executed by electricity in this State. Medical men are satisfied that death was instantaneous «ad painless. July 8. Conflicting accounts of the execution by electricity are published. One doctor that there were signs of respiration And the current was renewed again*ah(? again as wa found necessary in the case ofEemml. i, executed by electricity last yesr, and which led to horrible de*orip« liogs of the scene in the execution room being Published by numerous newspapers Eecei v sd, July 9, 10.35 a.m. \ London, July 8. ThA election of a member for Curldw took place to-day. Mr Hammond, a t-eceding pariy's candidate, defeated Kettle, the\Pamellite, by a majority of 2200. V Eio Janieeo, July 7. The ifeikoura arrived yesterday with her cargo of meat in good order..