CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 104, 1 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, j (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 27. Jewellery valued at £2000, belonging to the Dowager Lady Vornon, has been stolen by burglars from her residence in Stockport. Germany has decided to retain her pos- ■ session m South West Africa. \ The late Hey C. H. tipurgeon will be j succeeded as Pastor of the Tabernacle by , his brother, with tho Rev Mr Picrson as preacher. Mr G. W. Hastings, M.P., for East Worcestershire, charged as trustGG, under the will of the late Major John Brown, witb having committed fraud to the oxtent of j815,000, has been declared bankrupt. Sub-Lieutenant Anastay, who confessed to the murder of Baronoss Barrard, has been sentenced to death. Eighty thousand miners are handing in notices to cease work on March 12, in accordance with the resolution passed by the Miners' Federation. At the adjourned meeting of the Neir Zealand Mortgage and Investment Association (Limited) 10-day, to consider the position of the Association owing to its recent losses, the profit and loss account presented showed a debit of £157,001). The free assets are estimated aL £50.000 The Chairman in addressing the meeting said he was afraid there were no better times in store for New Zealand, and many were sick unto death of the name ofNew Zealand investments, The question of placing the Company in liquidation was postponed until the next anuuaimeeting. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Baron de Worms, Political Secretary to the Colonial Office, said there were not the slightest "rounds for charging Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, with breach of faith is not submittiug the name of Lord Glasgow as Governor of New Zealand to the Colonial Government before the appointment was made, Mr De Cobain, M.P., for Belfast, who has failed to appear to answer the serious charges of immorality alleged against him, has been expelled as a member of the House of Commons. Paris, February 27. President Carnot has summoned M. Loubett, member of the Senate, to form a new Cabinet. Radical insistance of the policy of anticlericalism renders toe establishment of a stable Government in France doubtful. Berlin, February 27. In the Reichstag Chancellor Capri vi has been twice defeated on motions respecting cruelty towards recruits and the fostering of a religious feeling in the Army. Thousands of Socialists and unemployed have renewed the rioting in several parts of the city. They paraded the principal streets, carrying red flags, and wrecked prominent jeweller's shops. The whole of the police force were kept on duty, but tho troops aro confined to barracks. The mob attempted to prevent the soldiers from mounting guard at the palace, but were charged by the horse and foot guards, and in the emeute many of the rioters were sabred, aud several of the ringleaders arrested. Roughs attempted to renew the riots on Friday night, and a few shops were looted. The Emperor, attended by an aide-de-camp and two police, rode through the streets, and was cheered by the populace. The police, who used their sabres, however, managed to suppress the disorder, and take many of the rioters into custody. There is much distress prevalent in Berlin. Vienna, February 27. Many painful starvation scenes have been witnessed in the city. The authorities are distributing thousands of loaves of bread among the hungry. Constantinople, February 27. Wulkowitch, the Bulgarian Minister who was stabbed in a public thoroughfare, died to-day. It is believed that his assassin is a Russian.