CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 88, 25 February 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright I_?EK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, February 23, The frozen meat by the Orient is sel- ' lini: ;-t 3sd, and that by the Doric at 4^d per ft. I Italy, Spain, Switzerland will not be represented at the Mcl bourne Exhibition. The Manchester exhibitors are very ' backward* in their preparations. -There 1 will be 300 French exhibitors, M. Berber, the Director nt the Puns Exposition, has had an ifiiofficiaj interview with Sir Grah-im Berry, in which he states that Prance does not care to exhibit at Melbourne unless Victoria will reciprocate and exhibit at Paris In the Houae of Commons the Address- . in-Reply was adopted. j The Western Australian Land Com- > pany's capital of a quarter of a million : has been subscribed. 1 Mr R C. Graham. MP,, and Mr j Burns, the Socialist leader, addre -sed a j large meeting with the object of bring- [ ing about a fusion of Home Rule and Radical interests. Messrs C. S. Parker, member for Perth, Davitt, and O'Brien, •M.P.'s. were preseut. The meeting was disorderly and ended abruptly. In the course of a debate nn the crof« ters' difficulty in Lewis, Hebrides Inlands, Mt A. J. Balfnur, formerly. Secretary for Scotland in the Salisbury Govern* ment, declared that emigration was the only solution of the difficulty. The Colville Gold Mining Company of New Zealand has beeu registered with a capital of £7500. Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at < *xford last night, said that iv his opinion the granting of Home Rule to Ire* land wouid be a desperate and insane policy. Referring to the European biU nation, Lord Randolph said he feared . they were ou the brink of *%real rupture ot* the peace of Europe. Washinoto***, February 23. President Cleveland, in a message to the Senate on the Fisheries Treaty, said that the settlement arrived at was a just and honourable one. Beblin, February 23. The latest bulletins issued respecting the Crown Prince state that he is rather better. Yielding to the persuasion of Prince Bismarck, and owing to the latest bulle« tins reporting an improvement in the health of the Crown Prince, the Emperor has decided to abandon his proposed visit to San Remo for the present. New Yobk, February 21. Yielding to the representations made by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Young, who asked that the performances of Hoffman, the musical prodigy, should be restricted, as he was being overworked, the boy's parents have determined to withdraw liim from the platform for some years, but being poor they complain of the pecuuiary sacrifice they are making.