LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 94, 26 January 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Efeetric Teleg^p%-— Copyright (PEB ■yjJITED PBE3S. ASSOCIATION.) January, 24. Mr Gh Playdell has been appointed manager of the London branch of the Bauk- of- New-Zealanrdr'*" * ' " - ; r J " " The Antwerp wool sales, which close on Saturday, comprise 1.500 bales from the Kiver Plate! 280,000 bales are araikblefor tho-fefl^Yi^sales^whieh - open, 9niTuesday,> including : 40^000 :: bales from thewjGJape:; ■,_] 'I'-.--it ! i^. & Lady Broome has -undertaken the ed jtof ship;..iQf r :the, /iiopki : ; which j ■<■ jfras/ jjairly written by Lady. Brassy prior to her deathi - r v:.\-_'/ - jlr J-.UJ^ &}% - It is rumoured tb^ Mr Chamberlain succeeds the Marcjuis off Lansdowne r, as G(ivernbi i G-eneral ef-CfenadW.*-^'- - The Imperial Government have suggested .that Canada- should make „T certaiu.-; epueessions to.-the United States in connection with the fisheries. Four hundred .and -forty bales of River Plate wool were sold at the Antwerp sa|esv at and if d advance on the November sales. ■/'_■_■ ;• i:(r mr n .■■! : .i; . ;..i r I)itbi.i».; January. JMi. ; i; ;; ; The arrest of Mr Gpi, M^?.» haa - .'-,-■ caused a seu&atipu among the.Nationalists, and the press comment on a wan-ant, issued iv. Ireland being executed in England/ ' . f , ti iVJ^sBOWiLH^ January 24 | The 'ltalian- scoutV jrenort -that .the " surrounding: country ,'»' denuded of : ' trOOpS. ; '._ ';/'.'" ;''-j =' "' \ r .'" ' '.'.'' ..-," Sri PETEBSBriae, January 24: '' '"'. ? A heavy fall of snow 'will prevent a ' renewal of liussian military; transports i: to the frontier until the end of Feb-' ruary. '; ;' '- : '.'. !l " ' ,_; : ' u^' ! ' " V: : Kussia has failed to ?aise a lojin izi ;: Vienna and Beflih. '. j -' 1 " /.>•>> •>>.■' ■:' 1^ :i ;:; T ;,' >v - ;^- 1: 'lAmMr; J*m&rs'24i - ; i: '•^■PrTttcid Bismarck 'istates that he i* } somewhat confident that peace ia Eur6pe r? Will Be 'maintained this yeir. Lord Randolph Churchill, at pitsent / on a visit to this cityi denies that hi»; ° recent yisit^o feussia wjas of an official- . uaaturei Tjut'sartrs he' Vas merely 1 ba^*" ; T ; ellihg in a private capa'cityy 'He sta^s- ; thaV J 'he' observed' very 'fe* wa^Ti^*' symptoiinß in his tour thrcwigb Russiai' J m It is reported that I>r Virchow h^; ' I declared that the' syydptoms of. cahcifir which appeared in 1 ' the' throat 61 .the^ 1 ' • : r Crown Prince m November last were merely the remains ,of preserved fruit; I and that the recent symptoms' indicate 'pericarditis. : •'*■" ;" : '" '': • "^■■■■-. 0; ;. ""- --; .; . ; c '' v ? ' ; '\;'JPißre, 'January 1 24rV; ' M.Pasteur has decided to send stW(>!5 tW(> ! • of hid assistahta fo Australia to con- ' duct the experiments for the ekter- - mfnation of the rabbits, and he intimatesithat he will be a competitor for the valuable reward offered by -the> - New ; South; Wajes Govern in ent foj: -th>/} most effective means of eitermißtatioh. ' Pbbth, W.A .January 25. Several important discoveries of gold are reported from Koeburne and the Darling Eanges." A Melbourne f firm have offered £50,000: for v one ..*.' 'claim from Aw.hich' a sample of stuff ■ gave eight puncesto the ton. ' ■-■ v ■ ;'. SyDKET,; Janußrj ;25. ; A .reaction , has set in in silyerraxning. Stock and shares in some of ~ the . com- ; pames have dropped £5, ;/. -V. . -'- The .Agricultural Show.; was ignnally opened to-day by his. Excellency 'the Governor. Among tiiope present were the (governors of the sister colonies, the Dude ;; of . Manchester, and some, of /the „.„ Bussian hciJleineu' who recently' arrived in the war vesselEynda. The. squadron ariived.iu Harbpr ;laafc r night 'frpm New Zealand His Excel- . lency Sir William Jervjois, who was a passenger by the flagship Nelson, arriysai V'; xn ; good health. H.M.S. Diamond! fell . short of coal on the passage;,- and is com— - ing np uuder sail. . ' ; Mr Eowe, of Christchiurch, has tak«o all the pig prizes at the Centennial Agricultural Show^ " \ f ifELBOPBNB, ; January 25- f< . The master of the barque Wiridiover ' reports seeing the direlect J. T. Berry "on" 11th January, a portion of the bow only appearing above water and still burning! * An examination was made, but no one was found on board. ' A' good lookout for boats was also kept. The Argus strongly urges one Federal military commander for Australia, and it expresses an opinion that the capitals could be captured for want of cooperation. ."■."/■:■: .' . '; j. ) „;•:■"." ." -In view of the decision of the Imperial „ Government not to cootiibute toward the cost of an ■' Ahfarctfo - expeiiitioiiv the Victorian Government have" decided not > to suppert the soheme.^ J J ] f ; ij '"'; " l " * - Mrs Pitzgerald and her daughterihave been committed, for; trial i ,f6rr tite murder of Mr Fitzgerald^hitsband of the former^ at Warwick, on CSinstmas^Day, ' '< 'i