CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 55, 5 November 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 2. It is rumoured that the Hight Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons, is about to retire to the House of Lords. Mr Hogan, of the Melbourne Argus, writing to the Westminster Beview, points to Australia as a proof that Home Rule will not threaten the Empire, and says that the granting of autonomy to Ireland will pave the way for a genuine Imperial Parliament, inclusive of repre* sentatives from Greater Britain. Five thousand bootmakers in the City have been locked out, the masters being unanimous in their determination not to give way to the demands of the men. The Paris correspondent of the Times wires that the Czar of Itussia, on his journey to Dantzig, travelled 30 miles by sea although a storm was raging, in preference to continuing bis journey by land, in order to ayoid meeting the Emperor William of Germany. Tho English fund for the assistance of the distressed Jews in Russia now amounts to £63,000. November 3. Actors and thcatricnl managers will present the Prince of Wales with a gold cigar box, valued at £1000, on the occasion of his 50th birthday. | |McDermott, nephew of the late Mr Parnell, whipped Tim Healy, M.P., in the Dublin Law Court for, as he stated, publicly insulting the City. Fearing thnt Healy would be seriously injured, the onlookers were compelled to rescue him from his enraged assailant. The late Earl of Clancarty left his son, Viscount Dunlo, nothing of his personal estate. The audience at a theatre in Coatbridge, naer Glasgow, resenting an increase in the prices, jeered and pelted Mr J. L. Toole, whose appeals to them to keep order were received with derision. Mrs Parnell, who has been in ill-health since the death of her husband, is in n critical state, and her condition is causing her friends great anxiety. November 4. Healy is reported to be black and blue from the effects of McDermott's chastisement, which amounted to fifty lashe3. He refused to refrain from making attacks on the character of PcirneH's widow. Parnell's mother is appealing to the Irish to vote for John Redmond in tho Cork election. Speaking at Cork, Wm. O'Brien, M.P., declared that Mr Gladstone gave Justin McCarthy assurances, virtually accepting Parnell's claim with regard to the settlement of the land and control of the police, but Parnell ceased negotiations because he was denied further concessions. The latest returns show that in the municipal elections the Liberals havesecured 79 seats, the Tories 48, and the Labour Party 12. The Daily News points out that the Liberals make a clear gain of 59 seats, and is very jubilant at the result. Constantinople, Nov«mber 2. Cholera is spreading at an alarming rate in this city. Paeis, November 2. The report that Mr Armstrong intended to sue for a divorce from his wife (Madame Melba) has created a great sensation in Paris. The Kothsiihilds have granted the Bank ! of Spain a loan of £4,000,000. M. Saint Hilaire, the prominent French politician, expresses an opinion that England's withdrawal would be an injury to Egypt and to the world, pointing out that the present state of the finances in Egypt is a proof of the splendid way in which the country has been governed by England. He considers that France has excluded herself from the occupation of Egypt. • Madame Melba has retained Sir Charles Eussel, Q.C., to oppose the application of her husband for a divorce. Lady Lytton, Lady De Gray, and other notables called on Madame Melba and expressed their belief in her innocence. Mr J. C. Williamson, of Melbourne, has offered the Australiau singer £600 a night for a professional tour through Australia, extending over 30 nights. The engagement was to be filled in May 1893, but Madame Melba replied that she could not accept the offer at present, Hosg Kong, November 3. The volcanic eruption in Mokusau has completely changed the 'general outline of the country. The principal shock lasted two minutes. Cairo, November 3. The Dervishes are reported to be within sixty miles of Sarras. New Yoek, November 3. The President and two of the Directors of Maverick's National Bank, which suspended payment yesterday, have been arrested on warrants charging them with embezzling half a million, of money be* longing to the bank. Yokohama, November 3. The official report states that4ooopeople were killed and 5000 injured by the earthquake at Mokusau. It is estimated that 50,000 houses were destroyed by the shock. Valparaiso, November 3. A report is again in circulation that Balmaceda did not commit suicide, but escaped from the country disguised as a drunken sailor. St.Petebsbubg, November 2. Nihilist plots have been discoyered at Charkoff and Odessa, and many arrests made in consequence. An epidemic of typhus fever is raging in Kasau, one of the famine stricken dis« tricts in Southern Russia. Rome, November 4. The death is announced of His Highness Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, fourth son of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, and brother of the Emperor Napoleon, aged 78. Buchaeest, November 3. The Roumanian express was wantonly thrown off the rails at Jassy, with the result tlia* four persons were killed and twenty injured. Washington, November 4. The elections in several of the States arc proceeding, ajjd appearances so far indicate that the Democratic party will gain the victory in New York and Massachussotts.