CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 116, 29 March 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

» By Electric Telegraph. — -Copyright. fI'KH UN'ITJSD PJIKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 26. Owing to miners' riots in Hepburn, in Dui-hamshire, the military lias been called out to protect the Volunteer barracks and patrol the streets. Miners' riots are also reported from Morpeih, in Northmnber- ' land, and the York Garrison is held in i readiness to suppress it. - : The iictiou brought by Miss Daisy Hopkins, claiming damages for wrongful imprisonment against the proctor of Cains College, Cambridge, was continued to-day, when evidence damaging to the character of the plaintiff was adduced. Ultimately a verdict was re turned for the defendant. In settlement of theParnell-Wood will case, Mrs Parnell surrenders the sum of £'00,000 to bir Evelyn Wood's family. Sir John Lubbock, addressing the annual meeting of t!ie Council of Foreign Bondholders, regretted that for the first time in their history their aid !had been invoked with reference to a colonial loan. He hoped that the New Zealand Government would recognise the justice of the claims of the New Plymouth Harbour Board bondholders. The Small Holdings Bill was read the second time in the House of Commons without a division. Speaking to the motion, Mr Gladstone characterised the measure as an honest, but only a partial, effort. In the House of Commons the motion tabled by Mr C. Fenwink, M.P. for Wansbeck, providing for the payment of members, was rejected by a majority of 65. The personalty of the late Rev C. H. Spurgeon has been sworn under £11.000 St. Petuhsbcho, March 2(5. Four hundred thousand Russian Je\x» are trying to leave Russia Germany has closed its frontier to them and shot several who attempted to cross A German spy and balloon service, which has been operating iv the Russian frontier, has been fired at by the Kussians with cannons, but without effect. Washington, March 26. The Government will sond eleven warships to psitiol the sealing "rounds in Beh ring Sea. The Russian Government has decided to srnd four additional ironclads to the North Pacific,