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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 23 July 1891, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PER I'NITKD PHI4SB ASf»OCI ATION .) London. July 20. The Court has appointed a provisional liquidator for the English Bank of River Plate, The Standard says the liabilities are under five millions, and the nominal pxcess of assets over liabilities is two millions. General sympathy is felt with directors, Mr Parnell predicts a victory for Mr Glad > tone at. the general election, and predicts that if Mr Gladstone provides in the Liberal programme for tve gift of legitimate freedom to Ireland, he will not stand in his way. July 21. The Houses of Lords lias dismissed with costs, the appeal in the case of 411 croft Lighton versus the Bishop of London. The result of the decision- is that the placing of Sculptural images of Christ and the Virgin Mary upon the reredos has been sanctioned. " General " Booth leaves England in the Tainui in August next. He visits the Cape, and after a brief stay goes on to Australia, and thence to New Zealand. Baron Kirsch's present arrangement is to establish Jewish colonies for those ex pelled from Russia in the Argentine Re* public only. Large quantities of Russian gold. re-> eently withdrawn, are returning to London, consequently the financial prospect is much brighter Private Dear, of the Queen's Edinburg, is this year's winner of the Queen's Prize at Bisley, with a score of 269 points. The trustees in the estate of the late Jas. Maybrick, the Liverpool merchant, who was poisoned by his wife, haying instituted proceedings against the Life Assurance Company for the recovery of the sum of £2000 on the life of the deceased gentleman, made out for the benefit of his wife, a verdict was given for the defendant. The decision leaves it open to the trustees to sue the Company for a re-trial of the case in November. The convict herself will then be allowed to give evidence and medical experts will be produced. July 22. Mr Be Cobain, in reply to his summons from the House of Commons to attend and answer the serious charges preferred against him, states he is too ill to appear. The Speaker has decided to send a medical gentleman to interview Mr Ue Cobain to ascertain the truth of the statement, and it is considered probable that the Government will defer further action in the matter until next session. General Booth intends to build an International Temple in London at a cost of i - 200,0!J0. The railway accident at Manchester Canal was caused by the blunder of the pointsman, a lad of 17, who has been ar» rested . Sir Francis Dillon Bell has booted a passage for New Zealand by the steamer Arawa, leaving in October next. Ottawa, July 20. Sir John Macdonald's Pacific Railway Company's shares are valued at a quarter of a million dollars. Bcda. Pesth, July 20. The Hungarian Government have introduced a Bill to di»qualify members who print, election speeches before they are actually delivered. The elections are now going on, and have excited a con* siderable amount of race hatred. The speakers of the different seats hare at* tacked the marriage and property laws and promised to distribute private and public wealth as an antidote to the growth or social and anti-Semitic movement. St. Pktersbvbq, July 20. The Russian press has been warned not to publish alarmist reports about the harvest. Russian officers are forbidden to make political speeches, or to visit French residents. July 21. A ukase will shortly he issued compel ling foreigners who have been engaged in commerce in Russia for five years, to take out letters of naturalisation. Capexo-wn, July 20. TheB.M.S. Rimutaka left to-day for Hobart and New Zealand.