CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 103, 9 February 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

eeutek's telegbams.l London, February 6. The divorce case in which Sir Charles W. Dilke is co-respondent, is to be tried on Wednesday next and should he be acquitted he will take the portfolio of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord Boaebery going to the Colonial Office, and Lord Granville being appointed Lord Privy Seal. At yesterday's wo«l auction 10,600 bales were catalogued. The tone of the market was dropping. To-day 11,500 bales were submitted. The tone was weak The tenders for the Melbourne Tramway Loan of £500,000 at 4| per cent., were opened to-day, when it was found that £1,250,000 had been subscribed. Tenders at £107 10a will receive 73 per cent. The French Government are making inquiries as to whether the colonies will send representatives to a Conference which it is proposed to hold in Paris in May next for the purpose of taking into consideration the protection of cables in the time of war. ' Mr Chamberlain states that every endeavour will be made to extend domestic control, to insist «n the supremacy of the Crown, and to maintain the integrity of the Empire. Bio Db Janbieo, February 6. The Buapehu arrived' here yesterday morning. The cargo of frozen m«at is in excellent condition. Capetown," February 6. The Aorangi left this moraine for New Zealand. Rangoon, February 8. His Excellency Lord DufEerin arrived here to-day from Calcutta.