YESTERDAYS CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7874, 5 April 1889, Page 1

YESTERDAYS CABLES.

Home and Foreign.

The Duke of Poitland’s Donovan is a strong favorite for the Prince of Wales’ Stakes at the Leicester meet' ing.

The action of General Boulanger in leaving France has caused several of his principal followers to accuse him of cowardice.

Admiral Welusner, discussing Samoan affairs in the Reichstag, said that it was necessary that Germany should be strongly represented there. Emil Treitel, a well-known corn dealer of Berlin, has suspended payment, with liabilities amounting to 6,000,000 marks.

A plot for deposing the Sultan in favor of his brother, Mehemid-Reshad Effendi, heir-apparent to the throne, has been discovered in Constantinople. It is reported that the Negus of Abyssinia has been defeated and slain in a conflict with dervishes, and that Abyssinia is in a state of anarchy. Dr Higgins, of Meath (designate Bishop of Antiphelles), who has been appointed coadjutor to Cardinal Moran, of Sydney, was consecrated by Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin. The clergy of Meath presented Dr Higgins with a purse of sovereigns. In the House of Commons, Mr Cooke’s Trust Fund Investment Bill was read a second time, and, at the suggestion of Mr Goschen, referred to a Select Committee.

Messrs Streeter and 00. have bought a million carats of South Australian garnets from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for L 5, and have offered to resell them for LlO.

In the House of Commons the Scotch Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill has been read a second time by a majority of 3.