CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 133, 20 April 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

» Creutkbs teleobams.l Received April 20, 1 a.m. London, Apnl 19. The Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company completed the arrangements by which vessels on tlie pabSHgc from London will pass through the Suez Canal without touching at' ivny of the places en route, nnd thu* avoid the quarantine imposed by the Egyptian authorities. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association : Arrived — Easter Hill, January 7th, and HimuJaya, January sth ; both from Port Chalmers. In the House of Commons to day the Kight Hon. Hugh Childers, Homp Secretary, announced his intention to introduce a bill to compensate the sufferers, by late riots, the measure to be applicable to the country as well as to London. Constantinople, April 19. Replies have been received; from tho French and Italian governments in reference to the Greek question intimating their intention to adept a similar line of action to that meditated by the Empires. * Montbbal, April 19. The heavy rains melting the snow in the interior have caused. the St. Lawrence river to rise above its usual height. -The result has been that the city has been completely inundated in the low»lyihg paits, causing immense damage' to pro* perty, and rendering many families homeless. . London, April 17. The directors of the Orient Company, have declared a dividend, for the paw half year, at the rate of five per cent, per annum, and carry forward and place. to the reserve £12,000, , At yesterday's wool sales a catalogue of 8500 bales was offered to a weak, market. To-day the tone was animated when 9600 bales were submitted. The Crown Prince of Germany is suffering from an attack of measles. Obituary.— Mr H. P. Hughes of the firm of Hughes and Sons, wool-brokers. Dr Ahearne, ot Queensland, who went Home to advance the separation of that colony, has been lecturing in the interest of the North, and demanded avtohemy for that district. Mr Harold Halton said that the North had never had a fair share of loans, but Mr Garrick, AgentGeneral, denied that there had been any partiality in the distribution of them, and insisted on the advantage to be gained by the colony remaining intact. Mr Murray Hatton presided. The wheat market generally is weaker Australian wheat vx warehouse is 6d lower. No sales of cargo on passage have been effected. The craps are looking healthy. The flour market is inactive. At the wool sales superfine greasy and merino sorts have improved £d per lb, owing to the French demand. Other sorts are unaltered. 240,000 bales have been catalogued for the series of which 80,000 have been withdrawn. Capetown, April 16. Tainui left for New Zealand this morning. Rome, April 15. Cholera has made its appearance in the south of Italy. Seventy-twe caßes in» eluding fifteen fatal ones, are reported ■from TtrinHisi.