CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 6, 26 June 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

CbEUTEB's TKLEGUAMB. I London, June 24. In the H«u«e of Lords fe»terday, a bill dealing with the question of duties levied upon eoloninl wines was read a third time and panned. ) A banquet was gircn last ni Jit by the Kmpire Lodge of Freemasons. Two hundred colonial member* of the craft were present. Sir P. Cunliffe Own, Secretary to the Koyal Coinuiismou, for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, presided at the evening entertainment. / { The Earl of Cimberlvy states that the | report th*t Colonel Lockhart's party had beon seizvd bj the Badakahans is incorrect. Mr H. H. Fowler will not reduce the , duty on wines unless the treat i • tered into with Spain is saaclioaed b/ the Cortes. The Prince of Wales has laii the first stone of a new bridge , over the Thames, opposite the Tower. Keipectiog the establishment of a per* maoi*nt Colonial M«seam, Mr Graham Berry, Sir Saol Samuel, and Mr Gariiek queition whether the colonies weuld grant an annual vote for its support. It is considered that the scheme, as at pre■ent suggested, is crude. Many of the exhibitor! will not fire their exhibits. A sculling match has been arranged between K*mp and Perkins. The cricket match, Australians v. Middlesex Kleren, commenced to day at Lords. Tlie Home team wr>nt first to the wickets, and were all disposed of for

259. The ri si tori then commenced their first in niiKS, and wben the atuinps wtrdrawn fur the ilay had scored 96 without losing a wicket. Pabi«, June 24. Comte do Paru left his seat in the Department ef Seine in France vester lay. fer England. Thtre wai a vast astern blage present to bid farewell to the Comte and his son.