Special to " Star."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 40, 16 September 1884, Page 2

Special to " Star."

ret/tee's telegrams. London. September 13. At to-day's wool sale 8,300 bales were offered. The market continues firm.

The cargo of frozen mutton comprising 12,000 carcases ex steamship Ruapehu has been landed ir excellent condition.

Both houses of Parliament will meet on October 13 for an autumn session.

A team of professional cricketers, about to visit Australia, will leave by the steamship Orient on the 19th instant. Tho following are the names of the team : — Shaw, Shrewsbury, Barnes, Flowers, Scotton, Attewell, Briggs, Read, Uiyett, Bates, Pell, Hunter, and. Lillywhite.

Sbaw-SaviU's steamer Tainui, and the New Zealand Shipping's Company's Kaikoura, have been succesf ully launched.

Lord Rosebery, speaking at Aberdeen, said he feared that. England was allowing her colonial empire to drift away from her.

The survivors of the yacht Mignonette were again brought before the court,

and have bean remanded for a week being released on bail.

One thousand fresh cases of cholera are reported from Naples, but fewer of them are proving fatal. The example set by King Humbert in visiting Naples is inducing the wealthier portion of the community, who fled from this city, to return and assist the sufferors.

Major-Geueral Sir Andrew Clarke, R.E., will be employed in the expedition which is being organised to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum. H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, is to join Lord Wolseley, who will have supreme command of the expedition.

Sir Samuel Wilson, tbe well-known Victoria squatter, who has been living | in England for some years, indignantly I denies the statement published in the London World of yesterday, that he is [ advancing money to needy " swells," with a view if possible, of purchasing a peerage. Beussels, September 13. The bitter feeling existing between the Clerical and Liberal parties is now most intense, and the reserves have been called out to maintain order. A serious disturbance is feared, and strong bodies of soldiers and police have been stationed in various parts of the city. Received Sept. 16, 0.55 a.m. London, September 15. - * Telegrams from Penang state that the crew of the steamship 2-Jhero, who for several months past has been held in bondage by the Rajah of Tenom, have been released, and have arrivedat Penang. Sir E. B. Malet, late British Minister jat Cairo, has been appointed; British , Ambassador at the Imperial German J Court, vice the late Lord Ampthill. I Paris, Sept. 14. ( A dispatch from - China* states that twelve companies of marines have been withdrawn from Tonquin and joined to Admiral Courbet's fleet for service against : the Chinese. j Rome, Sept. 14. King Humbert has returned tb this city from Naples. His Majesty was received on hi 8 arrival with unbounded enthusiasm by the populace.