LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 10, 9 July 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

• ♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) London, July 8. Sir Hercules Robinson has declined to contest the Dover constituency. la refusing, he states that though he is opposed to the policy of Mr A. J. Balfour respecting the Irish administration, he does not care to be made a catspaw at the hands of the Opposition. The officer* of the Calliope are to be promoted. Cairo, July 8. Five hundred of the Irish. Rifles have been sent to Assouan in order to strengthen the garrison there. The dervishes who are threatening the position, hare been largely reinforced. Bomb, July 8. It is reported that his Holiness the Pope has recommended that' eventually his successor should be Cardinal Lavigerie. Pabis, July 8. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies recommended that the whole of the charges preferred against General Boulanger, Count Dillon, and Mr Bochefort should be tried in tho High Court of Justice. It has been ascertained that 213 miners were entombed in the colliery at St. Etienne by the explosion of firedamp last week. New Yobk, July tA cyclone has ravaged a portion of Texas, doing damage to the extent of two million dollars. Thhbsdat IstANi>. July 8. Eastern news per British India Company's steamer : — A disastrous inundation has occurred in the Northern Kwang Lung Province of China. Six thousand people were drowned, and ten thousand rendered homeless and destitute. Pirates surprised the French fort afc Chobo, in Tonquin, and tortured the commandant and a corporai who fell into their hands alive. The former's two children were killed before his eyes, and hs himself was then slashed! to pieces. THE CLAN-NA-GAEL SOCIETY. . THE QUEEN BECOMES AMIABLE. FLAX KEEPS UP IN PRICE. Received July 9, 12 noon. New Yobk, July 8 It is stated the Clan-aa-Gael Society; decreed the removal of Dr Cronin because he refused to assent to the murder of Lecar on. Cronin's partner ha* it is asserted, handed the books of the Clan-na-Gael, which were in the murdered man's possession, t:> the London police. London. July 8. With the object of silencing the rumours as to strained relations between the Boyal Family and the Duke of Portland, Her Majesty took the opportunity, at Marly bone House, of saluting the young Duchess and shaking hands with the Duke. New Zealand hemp is quoted at £29 15s to £30. Melboubnk, This Day. John Anglin, who was sentenced to death on a charge of murdering his wife, of whom he was jealous, has had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life.