CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 21, 31 July 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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London, July 28.

Itis reported that Mr Gladstone will go on a patching cruite to Italj after the opening of Parliament, and will winter abroad-. ' .■■/'■"' , The Prince 1 of Wales refuse* the Prei* idency of the Jubilee Exhibition Com* mission, on the ground t^at he will be unable to giro the neoesijly, ' attention. The mails from Austrlha and New Zealand, per Alameda, Auckland, Jane 23, were delivered to-day. - ■ The reduction in th<? wine tariff comes I into effect on 26th August. - The suicide of the stranger, reported yesterday, is not that of a colonist. The Fit zroy (Victoria) Municipal Loan of £60,000 at 5 per cent, has placed in the market. The minimum is fixed at £103, and .tenders will be opened en August 5: The Bight Hon. A. Muadella, presiding at , an Exhibition Conference ea railway extension in the coloniei, ref erred to the safe investments in money lent to to the ooloniet, and adrised England to aasiit in deirelopinf colonial resources. Later intelligence from Labrador shows' a_pitiful state of; things existing there., Up ; to the present 3500 deaths hare eccurred from starratien, and -'fully 15,000 lires are in peril from the same cause. The Indians are eating the bodies of the dead, and to add the horrer of the situation; a, large number p£ bears, iwhich hare become raTeneusifor want of food > aremakinf; raids, on the , .settlements, and dsTourine human beings. ■:..,."..;,. I' u .r. July 29. 11 . de liesßeps' report on the Panama Canal shows a balance of 241,000,000 franosV He' pledges himself to open the eanalinlßß9.

Nbw Yoek, July 28. Latest accounts from Labrador show that the Indians hare been reduced to such straits that they have beea compelled to eat the dead. Hong Koito, July 28. A conrention has been «ignesl at Pekin between the British and Chinese Oorernments, under which China formally recognises British rule in Burmah.