CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 127, 6 April 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[ehutees tkeobams.] Received April 6, 1 a.m. A.THB3TS, April 5. M. Delyaunes, the Greek Premier amd Minister of Finance, hat brought forward in the Chamber of Deputies a proposal for a loan of £1,000,000, to increase the strength of the army*and navy. Londok, April 3. The Oxford end Cambridg»4oat race was rowed to«day. After a hard straggle it resulted in favour of Cambridge by a [quarter of a length. Oxford won last year by 3 lengths. There is no improvement in the wool market. 10,000 bales were catalogued to-day, the demand being dull and heavy. Up to the present, 260,000 bales have arrived. April 2. Mr Sjmons is a passeneer to Melbourne by the P. and O. steamer Ballsrat. What action South Australia will take in reference to the French proposals res specting the New Hebrides is undecided. It is understood that the March outward colonial mails will, wring to the break-down of the White Star Line's Britannic, be forwarded via Brindisi. Lord Harris, in a letter to the Standard, offers •bjeetion to the Melbourne Club retaining the surplus receipts of the present trip of the Australian team to England, but is willing to agree that the eleven may divide the surplus amongst themselves. Mr Henmker Heaton is promoting a Fenny Postage League, and 120 members have already joiued. The wheat market is unchanged. The supply has largely increased owing" to arrival of recent colonial cargoes. The cargoes arriving lately have, however, been placed in the warehouse awaiting better prices. One Australian cargo, ob passage, has been sold at 355. The tone of the wool market is better, but as yet prices are unaltered ; 116,000 bales have been catalogued, but of these 16,000 have been withdrawn, leaving 100,000 available. March 24. Mr Gladstone has resolved to depart to some extent from his original intention. He has decided now that he will not pro* ceed with the land-purchase scheme until the Tory party, representing the land-" lords, demand it. Mr Gladstone will announce the policy he proposes to adopt for the pacification of Ireland, in the House of Commons on the sth April. Sir Charles Dilke, co-respondent in the divorce case, has challenged the House of Commons to debate his conduot in re* lation to the case.