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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 23 February 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

■ _ ♦_- DEPRESSION AT HOME. WAX STILL IMMINENT. TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA. 2000 PEOPLE KILLED. THE CROWN PRINCE'S ILLNESS. HIS CONDITION MORE SERIOUS. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. JPER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, February 21. Mr Howard Vincent, member for Sheffield, speaking on the subject, said the only remedy for the existing depression in trade and commerce was a thoroughgoing policy of Protection, and that he was determined to advocate the protection of the industries of the United Kingdom. The French troops will be withdrawn, from the New Hebrides within 4 months from the 16th November. The Primate, in the course of an address delivered at the opening of a newchurch at Bethnal Green, said that the chief evils of the social condition of those residing in the East End were drink and early marriages. . Terrible snowstorms have been experienced in Cumberland, and five trains have been imbedded and traffic of all kinds interrupted. A large number of sheep have been frozen to death. The Agents-General have been invited. 1 to a National Conference, which is to be ' held at Berlin on March 15, to make arrangements for the publication of a polyi glot Customs tariff. Most of them have • accepted the invitation. At the wool sales to-day, 13,000 bales ( were offered. Extra fine washed, lower, j but other sorts unchanged. Lord Whitby, Secretary for the Colon- ' ies, has been pressed by Sir C. Mitchell; lately Governor of Fiji, to accelerate the • return of the Wesleyans to Tonga, as it i is hoped that the oppression to which they , were recently subjected to has ceased. N.Z. inscribed stock is now £995. t Consols, 102£. Sugar is steady—German, 14s 3d ; Java, 12s 3d. Chilian copper, £76 10s; Australian tin, £161&. ' Hong Kong. February 20. The city of Yunman, capital of the - province of the same name, in the southwest of China, has been partially wrecked by an earthquake, and 2000 of theinhab- • itants killed. : Rangoon, February 20. » The Dacoits are again troublesome, and , are menacing the city of Aya. A num- , ber of outrages have already been com- } mitted in the vicinity of that town. f Quetta, February 20. > The fortifications of Herat are being strengthened by the British Government, the order for carrying out the work having been given very suddenly: g Bbblin, February 20> The condition of the Crown Prince i* causing great alarm here, and it i» believed that the whole truth has not - been announced respecting the state of , the patient. February 21. „ The condition of the Crown Prince i* , growing more serious. The Prince isnow attacked with violent fits of xough--1 ing. and it is feared that his lungs are inflamed . Sir Morel Mackenzie diß« » agrees' with the treatment prescribed by i the German doctors. > .J. St. Pjbtehsburg, February 20. > Iti%|enerally believed that the Rusk Man Government are peeking to secure- , the neutrality of England in the event of , war, and it is reported that they are ready to guarantee to abandon tbsir t designs on India.