CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 79, 8 January 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [per united press association. | London, January 5. Mr W. O'Bnon, editor of the United Ireland, baa been summoned to answer a charge of inciting the Kerry people to resist the payment of rents. The present of 25 guineas by Her Majesty to Miss Fraulein Wiedemann, the plaintiff in the recent breach of promise case against Mr R. H. Walpole, heir to the Karldom of Orford, was made on the Queen first hearing of the girl's misfortune and some time prior to the trial taking place. Considerable excitement has been occasioned both at Liverpool and Birmingham owing to doubts having arisen as to the bona fides of Professor Friend's Electric Sugar Company. The shares, which were quoted at £120, had a tremendous fall, and are offering now at £10. It is stated that only refined sugar was being treated. A. second deputation, headed by Sir William Armstrong, waited on the Premier yesterday, urging that the defence of the ports was a national duty and not a local one. The Marquis of Salisbury, in reply, said while they ought to avoid takingany steps which might lead to a panic, the existing state of affairs throughout the world rendered it imperative that England should strengthen her defences. He admitted that such defences were of a national character, but contended that the localities so defended should bear a portion of the expenditure... ........ The Rev Mr~ Spurgeon, writing m Sword and Trowel, says the Imperial Parliament, as a time-honoured institution, is degraded by the actions of obatructiowflts. Madrid. January 4, By a colliery explosion at Oviedo, in the province of the same name, a large number of lives were lost. Thirty bodies iave been recovered already. New Yobk, January 5. Further revelations in connection with Professor Friend's Electric Sugar Company prove that the whole thing is mythical. The discovery was made immediately the secret rooms in tne factory in this city were entered after the disappearance of Mrs Friend, who promoted the invention since the death of ncr husband. The exposure created a complete surprise, and shares have receded to ote. Washington, January 5. The Foreign Relations Committee of Congress have reported favourably on Sentor Edmons' resolution against any European Government being allowed to cut the Panama Canal. Paris, January 5. The election for the Department of the Seme, which takes place on the 27th inst, is causing the greatest excitement in Paris. The Bonapartists and Loyalists support the nomination of General Boulanger, Beblin, Jannarjr 5. Professor Geffken, who was charged with the publication of the late Emperor's diary, has been released from custody, and the proceedings against him abandoned. The German Liberal press condemns the attempt of Bismark to blacken the character of friends of the late Emperor Frederick, and exults over the release of Professor Geffken.