General Cable News.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XVII, Issue 2945, 14 April 1899, Page 4

General Cable News.

Their Royri Highnesses the Duke and Diudu uf York have star tea opi their promised visit to Ireland. The Duke of Connaught, third son of Her Majesty, has accepted the succession to the Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Duke ranks as a Lieutenant-General of the British Army, and until last year held the command at Aldershot, the principal district command in England. For the Melbourne Oup and Derby double Ghesuey has been backed for £IO,OOO, and Parthian for a similar amount; while Reviewer has been backed to win the double for £SOOO. The latest reports, as to the progress of the Uganda Railway show that 279 miles of the line have been constructed. In connection with the fire which destroyed the residence of Mr Wallace Andrews, the New York millionaire, and caused the loss of seventeen lives, it has transpired that an infernal machine and a quantity of explosives were recently sent to Mr Andrews. The hostility thus shown to him strengthens the belief that the fire was caused by incendarism. The Wesiminster Gazette regrets the precipitancy of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company’s deben-ture-holders in petitioning the Stock Exchange to refuse to quote the colony’s new loans in the future. It advises the Exchange authorities to be cautious. The trial of United States Senator Quay on a charge of conspiring with others to misuse the funds of the State of Pennsylvania has commenced at Philadelphia. A keen debate took place in the House of Commons upon Mr Gedge’s resolution dealing with the lawlessness of the Anglican High Church clergy. The Eight Hon. A. J. Balfour made a strong speech. He said that while leader of the House he did not accuse the Ritualists of Romanizing practices, still he considered they were guilty of great disloyalty, and their actions seriously wounded the Church, He appealed to the moderates in this question to disassociate themselves from the extremists, whose attitude impeded the increased spiritual freedom of the Church. The House, by 200 votes to 14, demanded that preferment should be restricted to those clergy

who were prepared to abide by the Bishops, the Prayer Book and the Courts. The recent gales on the British coasts have caused extenrive damage. The loss to the fishinr fleet of the Suffolk port of Lowestoft alone is estimated at £20,000. The expedition under Major Martyr, which started some months ago from Uganda, with the object of placing military posts along the right bank of the Nile and thus connecting Uganda with the Egyptian Soudan, has arrived within 200 miles of the outposts of Colonel Kitchener’s forces. The Figaro states that Dr the well-known bacteriologist, has cultivated a cancer microbe. Commenting upon the Australian Eleven now on its way to England, Prince Eanjitsinhji, the famous batsman, says :— *‘ No finer combination has ever visited Great Britain. The pace, method and variety of the bowlers is splendid, and there is not a weak fieldsman. The captaincy of Harry Trott, however, will be greatly missed. While unloading timber at the Launcester wharf on Wednesday, a log struck Mr McDougall, the second mate of the brig Stanley, the wellknown New Zealand trader, killing him outright. He has a sister residing at Invercargill. The mansion of Mr Vanderbilt, senior, at Long Island, where his son is spending his honeymoon, has been destroyed by fire. Tfie fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. The names of the diplomatists appointed to represent Great Britain at the Conference to be held next month at the Hague (capital of the Netherlands), to consider the Czar’s proposals for the reduction of the burdens of armament, have been announced. They will be Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador to the United States, and Sir Henry Howard, British Minister at the Hague. In technical matters the representatives will have the assistance of Vice-Admiral Sir John Arbuthoot Fisher, Commauder-in-Ohief of the North American and West Indies Station, and MajorGeneral Sir John Ardagh, Director of Military Intelligence, War Office. The steamer Kingswell collided with the Turkish ship Marie in the Mediterranean. The latter sank and 45 were drowned.

The closing of the higher education institutions in Russia has affected thirty thousand students. A section of the students issued.a seditious proclamation; but the majority disavowed any connection with it. Amongst the students expelled from St. Petersburg are two hundred girls. Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, who is at present on tour, is the guest of Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore. He has been studying the working of the Catholic University at Washington. The Hon W. P. Reeves, in a let'e* to the Times in reference to the Midland railway debenture-holders’ petition, says he does not believe the London Stock Exchange would perpetrate the grave injustice of intervening while an appeal is pending. A keen debate took place in the House of Commons upon Mr Gedge’s resolution dealing with the lawlessness of the Anglican High Church clergy. The House, by 200 votes to 14, demanded that preferment should be restricted to those clergy who were prepared to abide by the Bishops, the Prayer Book and the Court. Forty-three deaths arc reported from the plague in Hongkong. A Franco-Belgian loan has been secured for the construction of the Pekin to Hankow railway, The Times, commenting on the matter, says that Great Britain protested too late against the foreign construction of the line, and adds that the pledge obtained from China that the Valley of the Yangtse Kaing will not be alienated to any other Power, is worth just so much as Britain decides to make it.

German forces in the province of Shantung destroyed with dynamite three native villages in punishment of the recent attack upon the German patrol.