CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 27, 1 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (I'Elt UNITED PIMW ASSOCIATION.) London. August, 28. Lillic Langtry lms been engaged for an Au.-tralian tour next year. SuTious charges levelled against two of the London constables of giving false evidence iv the cases of Alice Milliard, before the City Council, have culminated in their dismissal from the force. The agricultural statistics of Great Britain show the pastorale of the United Kingdom to have incensed by 5 per cent. The Chinese Government has ordered half a million rifles from Europe. The Shipping Federation is sending hundreds of men to Derry to discharge yessels, with a view to overcome the strike. In the Nineteenth. Century the Hoo Mr Fortescue miikes a powerful rejoinder to the article of Mr Willoueby, of Melbourne, and goes principally into details, j It is reported that the May brick case is to be re-opened. Pabis. August 29. An Italian officer has been arrested for spying about the fores of France. The French Government has rescinded the decree ordering English bookmakers to quit the country within a few days. This course is believed to have been adopted on representations made that th« expulsion would resmlt in injury to local trade. By forest fires at G o-urdeaux, Toulouse, several villages were destroyed, and eight persons have been burnt to death. An official estimate gives the number of lives lost ia the Martinique hurricane as 378, and puts the loss of property at £2,000,000. Eeblik, August 30. Chancillor Von Caprivi has introduced a Bill in the Beichstag, to suppress drunkenness. St. Petebsbttbg, August 29. At Viebsk, where the grain riots are taking place, the mob scattered 100 trucks of grain. Viekna, August 29.

An inspired pamphlet, which has been issued in the city insisting that an extra million sterling is required for a war budget, has caused a mild sensation in Austtia and Germany. Buenos Aybeb, August 29. The Italians made an attack on the Union Civita Club, Corrientes, in the city. The troops were called out to quell the disturbance, and killed six and wounded nine Washington, August 29. The railway accident on the bridge over the Catawby River, in North Carolina, happened at midnight, and sixty persons lost their lives. A Pullman sleeping car turned a complete somersault, and falling with, frightful force the whole of the occupants were killed. Constantinople, August 30. Reports from Arabia represent the re* bellion in Yemen us suppressed. The Turkish commander entered Sana in triumph with fourteen camel loads of human heads New Yoek, August 31. A Detroit parachutist, who had ( as» cended to the height of a mile and a quarter, fell, and was smashed to pieces. Received September 1, 10.15 a.m. London, August 31. Mrs Besant announces that since Madame Blavatsky's death she has received letters from the spirit world similar to Madame's. Lord Salisbury has disallowed the ordinance forbidding shipping work on Sundays which was passed by the Hong Kong executive. Parnell demands that the Liberals shall give a pledge to release all political prisoners, if they return to power. Constantinople, August 31. Servia and Bulgaria are both mobilising h©ayy bodies of troops on their frontiers for the purpose, it is alleged, of manoeuvring. The Porte advises Servia to manoeuvre m the interior of the country. There xs an uneasy feeling about the meaning of these preparations. Hong Kong, August 31. News from Japan states that on August 16, during a typhoon at Kovi, near Hiogo, two hundred and fifty Japanese' and foreigners were lost, while at another town forty five were killed by the falling houses.