LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 44, 26 September 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By - Electric Telegraph — Copyright. _PSR UNITED PBESS. ASSOCIATION.} " London, September 24. In the course of a political speech, Mr Gladstone denounced land nationalisation, and also described Mr Balfour's denial of the project .to found and endow a Catholic University ia Dublin as the shabbiest of all shabby proceedings of the present Government. It has been discovered tbat the Rev. Barfield, the Liberal-Unionist lecturer who was supposed to have been enticed to Ireland, and murdered by the Invincibles, really eloped with a girl to Canada. Mr Garland, a member of tbe New South Wales Legislature, is staiting a Corupauy, with a capital of £100,000, to secure the right of Edison's phonograph for Australasia. Paris, Sept. 24 . The Chamber of Deputies will probably meet in Novediber, when tbe .Government will resign, leaving President Carnot free to summon whom he pleases-. Qui-beo, September 24. The death roll by the accident at Dufferin Terrace has risen to 40". Besides these it is known tbat 30 other persons are still entombed. 1 There areja thousand houses beneath' the Citadel which tbe latter threatens to overwhelm should it fall. In consequence of the disruption of rock from Dufferin Terrace, the occupants are vacating them in haste. Melbourne, September 25 The disclosures at the trial of Landell the civil engineer in custody on a charge of murdering a bi other engineer named Sherlock, proved that the pnsonerhad extensively forged deceased's signature. Lmdell, "& surveyor, has sentenced to death for the murder of Sherlock another suiveyor, whose name he afterVards freely forged for the purpose of obtaiuing possession of his property. Quebec. September 24. -, Thirty-six people aie known to haye lost their lives by the fall "of rock from Dufferin-terrace, and 26 more are still entombed. Tiifb-day Island, September 23. Information has been received here by steamer tbat Moral, tbe ngent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank at i Lyons, has overdrawn his accounts to the extent of 1,290,000 francs without giving the necessary security. ,It is supposed that he has been investing in the bhare market an I the heavy fall of stock compelled him to use the bank funds. The Marquis of Tseng, who has been ill for some past, is recovering and is now almost out of danger. _ * Received September 28, 12.20 p m. VI adkid, .Soptemtipr 25. The Spanish corvette- Nayara fe seeking to enforce the release qf 4he crew of a Spanish coasting vessel, who were captured by the Tripolian Moors. • The Sultan and Envoys accompany the vessel, and will co-operate with the officers in obtaining' the demand. London, Sepfetdbe'r 25. The Times, in commenting, on the speeches of Sir Harry Parkes 1 and Mr Dibbs in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, on the question pf .constitutional government being granted to Western Australia, says the only reasonable claim is that tbe unoccupied territory of Western Australia should -be administered .in the true^spirit bf the maxim of " Australia for the Australians." The absurdities and extravagencies of Prqteotion, shown by Victoria, the Times thinks, wdl impose a preposterous barrier to colonial Freetrade.' The English and Continental press, in reviewing the result of the Erench' elections, agree that they point -iii- th& direction of the peace of Europe being maintained.