CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 70, 21 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ EETJTEB . TELEGB-MB.] London, November 19. At the wool sale yesterday 11,800 bales were catalogued. The tone of the market was firm. j Parliament was formally dissolved yesterday. Ihe /.gents-General of 'the several colonies have had an interview with Sir P. O. Owen, at which it was resolved to exclude all English manufactures from I the Colonial Exhibition. Sir Philip Owen also intimated that it was desirable that all exhibits should be received by April 15th. The French Radicals are furious at the refusal of M. Brisson to grant a plenary amnesty to the rebels in Tonquin and Madagascar, aad his desire to take active measures iu~ these countries. It is considered that the fall of the Cabinet is inevitable,^ - Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has now recovered fiom his recent illness. He has received a requisition to contest an Tri«h seat at the coming 'general elections, but .has been compelled to decline the request. BaaLiKp November 19. . The German Reichstag opened jesterday. In his speech] Emperor William made special reference te the recent difficulty with Spain, and announced that | the mediation of the Pope had definitely settled the ' Caroline Islands question. His Majesty expressed himself confident that tbe strnggle now taking place would in no way disturb the friendly relations of the Great Powers. He hoped the signers of the Berlin treaty would maintain the security ot the peoples concerned and impress upon them the necessity for respecting the Treaty. Received November 21, 11.15 a.m. London, November 20. Colonial mails, via San Francisco, per Zealandea from Auckland, Ootober 13, were delivered here yesterday— one day before oon tract time.