CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 80, 4 February 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By : Electric ,T(Blegraph.--Copyright [PER UNITED ?BEBS ASSOPIATIOJf JJ ' a n, 4 K Jem Smith has issued . a challenge to Sullivan for a fight to a finish. New Zealand frozen mutton is selling at 3f d, and New South Wale* at aid. *■ Tallow, 7,2<)0 easksrT3utterT8 lJ 6elßng* freely at a dccli c ot 8s per cwt. At the wool sales 11.Q00 have been offered, and nearly all sold. The market Jys,; strong baye f ad--vaoceda fraction, .„' r .. '■* * ■«■« I A deputation including Cardinal jMsnning and the Anglican Bishop of Bed- ' ford, waited on th*e~ Marquis of Salisbury to-day, and asked that Gorernment shouid. take some steps to^ relieve ther ; distress existing among the poor in i Lon-| don. The Premier was very guarded mi bis reply, and expressed much sympathj. ' with the. Obj eot ; of. the ; 'deputation; • >H? '■ promised that enquiry should be made into the. : cause of the distress : mifa (he i view to alleviating the condition •of the. voo^.'' '■' J "' '■■■■■" '' lu'^l:'^ j ■ . <t . T , , . JJvßpis, Fftbru'aryj i^ , Mr Cox; M p., iffa;? was recently sentenced to lour months impfispoTmient : for;j participating tin a " proclaimed'^ meeting has. received an; additional month's'- imprisonment for .exciting people to join the League. •' ' v^- i: -- :K --,,:j -<}i\ Eleven Irishmen have been imprisoned for .terms varying from one r tp. ,three months^ for paiticipating in uulawful assemblies. ■ •■■ ; -' ; v : '■- (" '"■'-'".';;'' '. Another outrage has occurred at Tra lee. A farmer who bad) been boycotted and was under police protection, has been brutally murdered. Februarys./ The Bight Hpn John Morley and Lord Eipon were accorded a. brilliant reception on the occasion of x their arrival in this! . city last night. They were escorted from the landing place by a tremendous crowd of people bearing torches; In the courae of a speech 'addressed to - the crowd, Mr Morley declared the Irish outlook less promising. ■„;,::.■;'■. .- :; -r. --> !\«-.i <*.■;. ' ; St. Petebsbubo, February^, The movement of troops .westward steadily continues. It is reporled that' a ; portion of the forcod : loan' recently raised will be expended in completing th» Siberian Pacific rail way. j r •.■•:■= ■ v : * L >; Caxcutta, January 31. A British regiment has been sent; from one of the northern stations to a»Mst in opening up the rpnd ;to VThibeit,' which has been" practically closed, by. gangs of Thibetan marauders..'; i ,^°; 1 Jy ' : ~ ,'.-•'; : ''•-•■■} Aiisi'EßPAM, s Febraary 2. ■ A Russian loan «f fifteen million roubles is being offered in this city. ; : ".:•; ',:-.■.'/*■ i Kokß,, February 2. A number of Irish pilgrims had an audience with his .Holiriess /the ; Pope: In the course of remarks adiressed to the pilgrims his rtoliness nrged^theni to respect the law m Ireland. - ' ■ : ' I Waßhi»&toNj : February 2. '. There are indications that* Canada is receding from ithe, extreme position taken up in re^pe^t of fisheries dispute.