CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 9 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

DEATH OF A CELEBRATED COMPOSEE. PROPOSED CHINESE RETALIATION. (.UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION.] London, Bth April. Captain Thomas, lately of Victoria, has been appointed President of the Special Service Board in connection with the Australian cruisers. Obituary— Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, Baronet, Canon Residentiary of Hereford Cathedral, an eminent composer of church music, aged G9. The remains of the late Marquis of Ely will be cremated. Hono Kong, 7th April. Mr. Kwong Pei, formerly attached to the Chinese Embassy at Washington, advocates the expulsion of all Americans from the service of the Chinese Government, in retaliation for the action of the United Stateß in excluding Chinese from that country. Nkw Yobk, Bth April. Blaokburno, the English player, is now leading in the chess tournament. PRINCE JEROME IN ANOTHER CHANNEL ACCIDENT. JOHN BRIGHT'S WEALTH. [special. ] London, Bth April. The Ostend mail boat, on board of which I was Prince Jerome Bonaparte, who was returning to France trom a visit to the ex-Empress Eugenic, collided with a barque off Dover. The steamer sustained only a slight damage. The funeral of the Daohess of Cambridge takes place on Saturday. The personalty of the late John Bright amounts to three-quarters of a million. St. Petersburg 7th April. General Romanoff is on a tour of inspeotion at Penjdeh, on the Afghan frontier.