LATE CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 8350, 30 October 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

LATE CABLES.

Home and Foreign. Sir Thomas O. Freake, Bart., who was arrested on a charge of having decoyed Mr Edward Gibson into a cellar in an empty mansion and then obtained the key of Mr Gibson's locker in St, George's Ola* and removed and destroyed letters and portraits of Mr Gibson's mistresses, has, along with another defendant, sompromised the case by paying L 1,200. Radcliffe, formerly a clergyman at Onristchurch, New Zealand, and who was committed for trial last month on a charge of larcuny, has been sentenced to eighteen month's imprisonment. Cholera still raging at MidriJ, and of those attacked 50 per cent, succumb. President Carnot will visit Moscow in May next. The Sultan of Witu having declined to hand over_ the murderers of several Getmans, the British troops have destroyed the villages occupied by those implioated in the murders. The force is now marching on the capital The Pope has prohibited Kouian Catholic bishops in America from openly assisting Messrs O'Brien and Dillon in the collection of money for the Irish Land League. Tho_ Cz»r, Sultan, and other European sovereigns, also Prince Bismarck, sent messages to Count Yon Moltke congratulating him on attaining his ninetieth birthday. Emperor William visited the General, and was entertained at a banquet. The absence of Pi inee Bismarck from the banquet was unfavorably commented on. The Antwerp wool sales opened dull, and the bidding was very reserved. Prices ranged from 5 to 10 centimes below those ruling at the last sales. Sir Julian Panncefote, British Ambassador at Washington, has proposed to the United States Government thtt the representatives of Great Britain, Russia, and America should

constitute a board to arbitrate on the Behring Bea fisheries dispute. The Ruman peasantry at Bogodo\ oklor refuse to longer remain as serfs, and are attacking the landowners. Nine thousand troops have been despatched to suppress the rising.