CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 71, 3 December 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

" ' By Electric Telegraph.— -Copyright [bkoteb's tslkobams.i London, November 30. ' In Paris an excited section of Badicals, '■ headed by Mr Henri Roohefort, prefer M. , Grdvy to M. Ferry as President. President Gravy's farewell message is Couched 1 in dignified language, without bitterness. He complains of the desertion of his . friends. J It is reported that 150,000 Russian ' troops are massed in Poland beyond the . ordinary force maintained in that country. '. Missionary reports received from the : territory in the neighborhood of Mozambique, East Africa, states that some Australian diggers haye discovered a goldfield richer that any found in Australia. Lumps of gold are visible en the field. The Times urges ihat weasles and stoats ! should be tried before M. Pasteur's method for the extermination of rabbits. Lord Hartington, speaking at Dublin, said that the legitimate national aspiration of. Ireland might be satisfied, like Scotland, under Imperial Parliament and Government. Mr Goschen said that bastard Nationalism would only produce unendurable friction between Great Britain and Ireland. Lord Lyons has perverted to the Cathohc Churoh. The frozen mutton ex the Orizaba, from Australia, is being sold at 3J to 3-J per lb. New Zealand mutton is quoted at 4d. Six hundred and fifty British exhibitors and ISO foreign exhibitors have applied for about 400,000 ft of space at the Melbourne Centenary Exhibition. From Huddersfield alone application has been made for 10,000 feet. The several Agents-General, with the j exception of the New South Wales representative, are preparing a combined protest to be presented io the Imperial Government against New South Wales assuming the name of Australia. Sir H. Holland, Secretary of State, for the Colonies, has intimated unofficially that the proposed change of name wui not be sanctioned by ther Home Government, should the sister colonies object. For wheat cargoes to be delivered in j December and January 34s 9d is asked. December .1. The deficiency m the bankrupt estate of Lord Augustus Lpftus is now said to be -£40,500. No composition has been offered to the creditors. ■ Husluck, an expert on valuable stones, reports that Pearson's South Australian , Rubies will prove. a very valuable discovery. The stones, he says, are of extreme beauty, and- will sell freely at a , high price. The Presbytery of Edinburgh have ad- , mitted the marked ability and tact the. Rev Mr Lees displayed in Victoria, and , have thanked the Presbytery of Mcl- , bourne and Soots' Church for the kind re- ; . cepfcion given him. In reply the Rev Mr Lees said the Scots' Churcn business , was almost settled. It is proposed to Bfc»rt an Emigrants' Aid Society with a capitai of a million, with a view to settle 10,090 people on a large tract of country in Western Aus- , tralia. The society ib to bear the expenses , of passage and settlement, the emigrants [ gradually repaying the amounts ad- ( vanced. , The Island Block Goldmining Company of New Zealand, with a capital of £60,000, is bemg formed. Pabis. Pec mber 1. M. Grevy has intimated to the Ministry that, owing to the change in the political situation, he does hot intend forwarding the message to the National Assembly to-day.