CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3147, 5 December 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Sir Alexander Cunningham, of the Bengal Engineers, is dead. The German Reichstag has raised the duty, principally on Russian imports, 50 per cent. France and England have agreed to place the r.eutral zone in Siam under the rule of China. It is believed that the Federal Council of Berlin will not agree to the admission of the Jesuits. The, influenza epidemic is raging throughout Austria. The Keichsrath has been closed in consequence of it. The British torpedo catcher Havoc steamed twenty-seven knots in an hour on her trial trip. This speed is claimed to be the fascest ever attained by any vessel in the world. Mr Herbert, Secretary to the United States navy, urges that several more warships are needed, but that the supply of cruisers is sufficient. The Fenians have issued a manifesto, denying complicity in the recent outrages in Dublin, and blaming the malcontent section. In the Reichstag Herr Leiber, the Catholic leader, said that if the Pope were friendly to the Russo-Freoch Alliance, it would not deter German Catholics from remaining loyal to the E aiser. The lugger wrecked last week at Thursday Island was the Goshawk, not Curlew. Ths members of the crew who were missing and supposed to be drowned, have reached Thursday Island safely. The Chinaman, who was the victim of the recent outrage on the Bourke mail train, is dead. The three men who were arrested on a charge of robbing him will now be charged with manslaughter. ' Latest advices from Paris state that the President and M. Ferier wept during the interview with M. Spuler over the difficulties of the situation. The other members of the new Ministry include M. Dubost, Minister for Justice ; M. Mercier, Minister for War; M. Lefevre, Minister for Marine; M. Jounert, Minister for Public Works; and M. Marty, Minister for Commerce. Enraged at not being allowed to attend a ball at Blenheim in celebration of the coming of age of the Duke of Marlborough the undergraduates at Ohrist College, Oxford, painted the doors of the Dons' and Leans residence in hideous colors, bedaubed Dean Liddell's statue, cut the bell rope, and wrote above the entrance to the Cathedral "God Bless the Duke of Marlboro " and (t Down with Dons." A remarkable case is now before the I ondon Court. The facts so far as disclosed seem to show that many years ago a woman named Rachel Cullena, in order to avoid her creditors, personated a man and worked as a plumber. In 1866 she married a woman named Sophia Newland; and of this marriage there were four children. Mrs Clark, a widow, is now claiming the estate from William j Oullena, one of the children, and a relative of the plaintiff's, on the ground that the children must have been illegitimate.