GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 58, 16 November 1886, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

• (reuteb's telkgbams.) Received November 16 12 50 p.m. 1 London, November 15. Sir G. Berry has written a le'ter to the 1 Times tn reply to that pnper's leading, article of Friday, in which he denies he ■ hns, as alleged, claimed Austrnhi should hate a vote in the foreign policy of tbe ! empire on the question of lin j eral J Federation. • ] Bombay, November 15. ' Lord Dufferin, Governor-General, is ' now in this city seriously indisposed. 1 London, November 12. Sir Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New ' Zealand, has effected a settlement of the l New Zealand cable dispute with Mr ' Pender, chairman of the Eastern Ellen- ) sion Company. Press messages between ( Australia and New Zealand will be 1 charged at the rate of 3d per word j - The Times to-day publishes an article i . which states thit Sir Graham Berry's claim that Australia should have a voice in deciding the foreign policy of tbe empire, is an illustration ef the obstacles - which lie in the way of the Imperial fed" . eration, and wbich, if Imperial federation were affected, would paralyse English diplomacy. Large quantities of New Zealand and River Plate frozen mutton are now in store. j The New South Wales timber and mineral exhibits, aad those private exhibits for the returns of which to Sydney orderi have not been received, wiil be reserved for the ImperiaLlnstitute, pending directions as to their disposal. The wool exhibits have been sold, and half of the private exhibits are to he returned. Colins, Broker, and Co., wine and spirit merchants, are endeavoring to start a company with a capital of £150,000 for the purchase of Australian vintage-", tbe maturing ot the wine .to be done in Lon» don. One-third of tbe capital has teen reserved for subscription in the colonies Eight hundred pounds worth of New South Wales wines were sold in glasses at the Exhibition, nnd L2OO worth m bottles, but nene in the bulk. Rio de Janeibo, November 13. Tbe Shipping Company's Ruapehu, Wellington, October 21, arrived on the 11th. Her cargo of fiozen mutton is in gbod condition. Calcutta, November 12. The revolt of tho Ghdzais tribes in Northern Afghanistan ha* now been completely suppressed. Capetown. November 13. The Shipping Company's Aorangi, Plymouth, October 23, left this afternoon for New Plymouth.