CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 19 June 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Cbkutebs telbobams. i Receired Jane 19, 1.30 a m , Lohdok. June 18. Id the Honim of Commons last night a. Bill to gi?e effect to a chaste in wine duties was read a third time and passed. A grand reriew of troops will take place at Aldenhot on the second proximo before Her Majesty the Queen. Tne leading colonists now in England wilt be present on the occasion. Bombay, 17th. The death ia announced of Maharajah Hoekar, of Indore (ouo of Central Indian States.) . •■ ,:..•.••• Lomdok, June 16. | A contract for the construction of 30 miles of the Midland Railway has been virtually let. , ; ; The recent suicide of the King of I Bavaria has caused considerable excite* ment in Bavaria, and sinister rumors are current concerning the new King. Sir John Hall has complained of the silence of the English- leaders regarding French aggression in the Pacific. The seizures of American fishingsmacksby Canada will ' form thtfsn bject of an enquiry by a joint Commission. , The, general elections . in Nora Pcotin hare resulted in the return lofcaDdjd^tes. favorable to the separation of Nova Scotiafirbm. Canada, ' ■. r> ' ' ' Sir Alexander Stuart, ex* Premier of New South Wales, died to-day, aged 61 ijears.: p,-;-; ' ' r.:; ■' '■• -■ .-■■■'■:-■■) .: ' : ■ . . The Australian mails from Melbourne, May 4, were delirered in London to-day. Via Brindisi. ' . ""'»7v ■,""■■• ... •> June 17. ' Colonel Walker has been nominated by the Conservative party to* contest Midlothian at the general election. ' At a banquet given to-night by the St. George's Club to the ['Colonial AgentsGeneral aad the Tarieus Executive Commissieners to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Sir Cunliffe Owen presided, and took occasion to express the general regret felt at the death of Sir Alexander Stuart. Mr Berry, in responding to the toast of the Executive I'ommissioners, said he rejoiced in the grewing eon victioa of the Mother Country as the value of her colonies. He considered the Exhibibitienrn6w open represented the federation of /the 3£tnpite.' Alluding to the l^ew Hobrid»s question, he urged that the Imperial Government should protect the interests of the colonies in regard to those islands} Mr Garnck said the present Exhibition was the pride ef the -Empire, arid tie hoped a permanent colonial museum would be formed in London to continue the geod work done by the Exhibition. • J ■..-■■,.•■, . Sir Samuel Wilson has announced his intention to contest . Portsmouth the general election for the House, of Com,mons. „,. .—■>.. ... • ■ ■-'-<-■:,... •■■:«.■• :—■<>', The Marquis ef Salisbury states that his party will not oppose the re«eleetion of Unionists. . The Hon. Mr Gladstone has gone to Edinburgh to prosecute his electoral campaign in Midlothian.