TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 193, 16 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

— ♦ ■ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright THE ARLAMONT MURDER CASE. HOME POLITICS. STARTLING CONSPIRACY IN PA HIS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 15. i Some of the evidence advanced at the trial of Monson for the Arlauaont unirder is of a revolting character. Trial experi« ments have been nande- on doad bodies in the mortuary in Edinburgh, with the object of ascertaining the effect of shot and the force of its penetration in the human body. Judging from the evidence thus obtained the shot which killed Lieutenant Harnborough must have been fired at a distance of nine feet. The Bishop of Cork has been elected Primate of Ireland. The Queen visits Florence in March. In the House of Commons the Premier will move an amendment to Lord George Hamilton's motion urging an increase in the navy, to the effect that the House relies on the Ministry to submit a fitting proposal respecting the navy in due time. A discussion will be taken on Tuesday. Mr Bruce, Conservative, has been returned unopposed for the vacant seat at Brighton, caused by the resignation of Sir W, T Marriott. The House of Commons will adjourn from the 22nd to the 27th instant lor Christmas holidays. All sections of members appear greatly discontented. The reported decision of the Cabiuet to devote £8,000,000 to the increase of the Navy is stated to be premature, and this is the reason why the Opposition are seeking to bear on the Government through the medium of Lord G, Hamilton's motion. Several fresh arrests have been made in Dublin in connection with the murder of ihe man Beid by members of a secret society, who feared he had revealed secrets of the order to the police. In announcing the Cbrbltms vacation in the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone said that owing to the obstruction prnc* Used by the Opposition he was compelled to restrict the holidays to fire days. Mr Balfour retorted that the Government were attepting to trample on and coerce the Opposition. Washington, December 15. Senato Yoorhces has introduced a Bill providing for the coioßgo of silver to the extent of 2,000,000 dollars monthly, and afterwarks providing for the purchase of bullion and its coinage to a similar extent. Paris, December 14. Thirty-thousand vignerons in France declare that the export ot wine is decreas. ing, and demand protection from th* State. The police continue their investigations in connection with the recent explosion with great energy, and olaim to bare discovered a startling conspiracy in the city. Slubb, employer of Vaillant, has been arrested. Caibo, December 14. The Kgyptiun Legislative Council suggests that a policy of economy be adopted by refusing to pay the costs of the Brit* i>h occupation, and by abolishing the offices set up to repress slavery, also those for the command of piisons. Boms, December 15. The Banco Populare, of Rome, has applied for the moratorium, San Francisco, December. 15. The American league in Honolulu appeals to the people to prevent the restoring of a corrupt monarchy. Madrid, December 15. One hundred and forty three anarchists are imprisoned in Barcelona.