LATE CABLEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 46, 6 October 1887, Page 2

LATE CABLEGRAMS.

TIBS FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR SMALLPOX IN TASMANIA; :, ! ;v ■ \ ■ .V. y-... :- pjCHOLERA.- DECREASING. /AUSTRIA FORTIFYING HER TOWNS. By Electric Tele^ph.P^C!opyright. 'A ["kECTEB's TELROBAMB.I London, October 4. Advices from Madagascar report that, owing to the strained relations | existing between the Malagasy Government and the French Resident in' that island, the latter has lowered his .flag, and left Antananarivo. At to-day's wool sales, a catalogue *f 8800 balesywas submitted at auction, the tone of the market being firm. •-.'.■" '■"' //

New Zealand 4 per cents, have advanted to £99 lOs.

w. Cholera is on the decrease in Italy. The triennial election of the Servian National Assembly has resulted in the return of members antagonistic to Austria. This has had the effect of inducing the Austrian Government to take measures fox the fortification of Bosina and Herzegovina. Beblin, Gctober 4. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Bismarck, has laid before the Federal: Council a proposition that in view of the great commercial interests of Germany in the Melbourne Exhibition, a German Commissioner should be apSointed, and financial assistance renered to German exhibitors. 1 ..."-. - Hobabt, October 5./ Since the outbreak of smallpox in this colony, twenty-two cases have been reported, four of which have proved fatal. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R. M.S. Rimutaka arrived from Plymouth this morning, and sailed again this afternoon for Wellington.