Special to "Star"

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 17, 12 February 1884, Page 3

Special to "Star"

HECTKR'S ■■TIiLKORAMS. „ Recicved February 12,12.50 p.m. London, February 11. Tlie carco of frozen mu Uon -by -the steamship Liguria, from Melbourne, on December 29, comprising; 433") earca«es, has arrived here in pood condition : The first portion was placed in the market '.o-day and fetched s|d per pound. In the Houseof Commons to-day Mr Brndl;iti£U iinpeared at the table, and swore liimsrlf in as a member, find then withdrew from (he ' hamber. When lie hud retired Mr Gladstone rose, and stated flint if n. motiiVn was cirrif>d. the GovernmenL would prosecute an I te-st the legality of Mr Briidliiiigh's admission. Mr Evelyn ■.Ashley, Under Secretary, in reply to a question, slated thar. no de. eision find yet been come to on the report of tlie Western Pacific commission. The decisions of the Sydney Convention had. he said, materially modified the position of affairs. The death is announced of Thomas Chenery, the well-known orientalist and journalist, aged 58. Caiho, February 11. Intelligence is to hand today that Major General Gordon arrived yesterday at Berber. '; [pee united pbess association.] Patea, Triis Day. E- A. Simpson, charged with embezzlement, was dismissed. Wellington, This Day. Parliament is further prorogued until 7lh April. Th° sentonce of death passed on Win Pearce for the murder of his paramour at Dunedin has been commuted to imprisonment for life.