CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 73, 17 December 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(PER UNITKD PllliSS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 14. The Portsea Building Society, with mortgages to the value of L 700.000 has suspended payment. The Phonograph has been applied to 56 inmates of Johnson's Doaf Asylum, and 53 of the patients heard the reproduced sounds. Probate has been granted on the wills of the late Mr Hemming. needle«maker, and Mr Avery, weighing machine manufacturer. The values of the respective estates are £750,000 and £170,000, It is believed that the Prince ofWales will allow the Duke of Clarence and Avondale L 20,000 per year and a residence. St James' Gazette states that the mar" riage will be celebrated in Westminster Abbey in February, unless Her Majestr the Queen insists on it taking place in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. December 15. The Chronicle states that Mr E. Stanhope, Secretary of State for War, intends to economise in his department, and pro» poses to reduce the cavalry by two regiments. His military advisers are opposed to this action. An article in Greater Britiin, commenting on the betrothal of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale to Princess Victoria of Teck, suggests that the young people, after their marriage, should visit the Australian colonies. Paeis, December 14. The French Minister in Bulgaria has been withdrawn, as M. Stambouloff. Premier and Minister of the Interior, has refused to permit the French jour • nalists who were expelled to return to that countrj, St. Petebsbubg, December 15. The Eussian press is in receipt of secret orders not to publish details of the horrors of the famine.