TOWN EDITION

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 105, 17 May 1883, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

Special to " Star."

[by elect k i c teleoiupn. — copyrioht.] belter's telegrams. Received May 17, 1.15 p.m.! London, May 15. Arrived — Steamship Paramatta, at Plymouth, from Sydney, March 23. The colonial wool sales opened to-day with a catalogue comprising 6,600 bales. Fair demand was experienced and there was a good attendance of Home and foreign buyers. The present series will close i n June 29th. Consols have advanced to 102 f. New Zealand securities are unchanged. The market for colonial breadstuff's is quiet, but firm at last quotations. Australian tallow is dull. May 16. A definite treaty of peace has been concluded between Peru and Chili. At a meeting of the National League a resolution was passed protesting against the Pope mixing in politics. James FitzHarris, who has been Jretned as an accessory to the murder of Cavendish and Burke, and been found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life. Two more Phoenix Park prisoners, Daniel Delaney and Thomas Martin have confessed and been sentenced to death. Melbourne, This Day. The English mails via Suez for New Zealand which arrived here yesterday by the Ballarat, have been sent to Sydney where they will be placed on board the Hauroto which leaves fer Wellington tomorrow. Bishop Moorhouse has written a letter to the Argus in which he favors the opening of the Public Libary on Sundays. Notwithstanding the evidence the mining manager of Ellenborough mine at Eaglehawk will be tried for manslaughter in conneetiou with the death of the men who were crushed by a fall of stone in the mine last month. It is stated that the bank manager at Eaglehawk has made use of £3,000 worth of scrip deposited by customers. The name of the manager is, however, witheld. The statement that Berry intended to proceed to New Zealand was incorrect. He has undertaken to write fully to the Government regarding the decision of the Australian Colonies to join the Postal Union. Adelaide, This Day. Arrived — Steamship Sorento from London.