CABLE NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 475, 30 May 1891, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

...ZT. -: •■ %.- -.K- •■•; --• ' • " ''" ,,i " i ' London, May 27. The Duke of Fife has decided to christen his infant daughter Alexandria.** ? ;->. ••--••> *-'-•* '■»'■"■ An injunction is sought to restrain Mr J. R. Kelly, treasurer qX <$&, / . S^Qjfctj-h YY- Branch of ' the Natibnal League, paying over to Mr Justin McCarthy the money! raised for evioted tenants in Ireland. Private E. Mawley and Corpl. Martin, of the, .yictorian; Mounted Riifemen, are at present tho highest ecorers at the royal military tournament, and were first to accomplish the -feat: of icutting lemons while at full gallop. In the House of Lords to-day a BiIJL .^enable persons Charged with crime to give evidence, also to enable wives to give evidence on behalf of theiv hnsbandsiphas passed its second reading. The exact amount tendered for Queensland Joan was £296,800; Mr Parnell intends to vist America when the. House of Com--mons has been prorogued. , He has a^&h^edjto mayry. Mrs O'Shea in ftfeohtliorsix W99lsf«. -

viK-' •'•'. zS)Bfj t &t*_ m . "f. , w ,^*iJsA<* i Kif_i«*mn>'J m , m v*''' ' "• -"■■•■•t ■"■'■■■ " ■ ■"-■ The Boyel Commission oi Labour opened its sittings to-day, and Have arranged the details oi procedure. Eariperby has beei appointed chairman' of tho trans port section ; Mr Mundella, M.P. of the textile section, and Mr Davie 1 Dale, ironmaster, of the iron and coal sections. „ St. Petersburg, May 27. The Russian Government has refused the offer of foreign bankers to issue a loan without' Rothschild 's participating in it. Vienna, May 27. Austria and Hungary have decided to introduce a gold currency. Athens, May 27V It is estimated that over a thousand Jews have left Corfu. ■-'■'". ■" Paris, May 27. : Captain Tripone, who ..was arrested on a charge of disclosing the secrets of the War Office, has been released, but M. Turpin, accused of selling the secret of his invention; of melinite: to Sir W. Armstrong and Co., has been detained. By an explosion of a petroleum tank at Dunkirk, seven houses Were wrecked 'and six persons killed. The Bordeaux Bank has failed with liabilities amounting to six million francs. Washington, May 27. The United States have, decided to intervene with a view to terminaing the civil war in Chili. The citizens of ' Chicago are protestinjg against Jewish immi-, grants being allowed to land in the* United States. Mr Fox, of the Police Gazette, -New York, offers to organise a regatta , „ in , .^connection * . with*, .tjae Chicago World's ' Pair if Australian and English oarsnaen will, compete for championship purses.' : Ottawa, May 27. By a fire at Montreal, damage to the amount of 300,000 dollars was done., „. ; ; .. ... . ... _ Capetown, May 27. c Owing to the recent emeute the Portuguese authorities have again closed the Pungwe River. Lord R. Churchill has cabled that the position of the Chartered Company's police .at Umtbeli. i . ," critical .and ; the men; in want of Supplies; 'He also declares that the immediate occupation of the coast by the British is imperative.