LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 90, 1 March 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. 1?« B TOUTED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] London, February 28. New Zealand inscribed stock, £99 ' Ids. Wheat and, floor are unchanged since last quotations. Leather is lower. Best hides are quoted at 10£ d to 1 Id. Froaeri meat is firmer with an improving tendency. The quantity of wool which has arrived to date for next sales, including that which was held over from last sales, is 96,000 bales. It is probable that the additional quantity to arrive will bring up the total to 350,000 bales. The Admiralty are mobilising a strong fleet, nominally for the spring manoeuvres. The New Zealand Loan has been postponed fall June next. February 29. The House of Commons has reduced the majority required to force the cloture to 100. There was little opposition. Pabis, February 29. France is enforcing stringent tariff regulations against Italy, the recent parleying between the two countries having proved fruitless. St. Peteksbttbo, February 29. that if the Powers agree Russia should undertake a naval demonstration against Bulgaria on the Black Sea coast. There has been a panic on th* Bourse owing to the heavy fall in Russian rouble notes. Massowah, February 29. The Negus, having moved a portion of his army from Godofelassi, has come upon a force under Eas Aloula, and an attack is imminent. Two columns of Italian troops are coming up from Asmara and Dixan. Sydney, February 29. Mr A. J. MoCullook, junr., member for Central Cumberland in the New South Wales Assembly, has been declared a bankrupt, and has vacated his seat in che House in consequenoe. Brisbane. February 29. Two mailmen have been drowned in the swollen rivers during the recent floods in the northern part of th» Colony. One of the victims was endeavoring to take provisions to an isolated party, cut off by the floods. - A family of five persons were potsoned at Charters Towers through eating sago which, it was discovered,, was mixed with arsenic. Two of the ohildren have since succumbed. The. sago was found in an old brick camp, and was used unknowingly. It is reported that aa important discovery of platinum has been mad* in Queensland, but the exact locality of the discovery is kept secret. A search party has been sent out to. look for the ship Exminster and thebngantine Kate, which, it is feared, have. met with an accident in the recent hurricanes off the coast, a number of bioyf^ &c, bearing the. name '.* ExminsfeijP^ having been found, in the vicinity of Kotpel Bay. Adelaide, February 39. Sixty-three claims have beeu pegged off on the ruby fields, comprising 2520 acres for an English and Australian syndicate. The Botohchilds are said to be largely interested in the venture. The. land was selected by a Sydney surveyor, who travelled overland from Bourke to prevent rumors of his misssion reaching here and tanging rivals into the field; Received March 1, 11 45 a.m. London, February 2ft. Intelligence has been received from the West Coast of Africa that the German warship Albatross arrived at Cameroons, having on board Malietoa, ex Bang of Samoa, who was deposed by the Germans, and King Tamasese enthroned in his stead. The Government intend to refer the Naval Estimates to three Select Committees. A syndicate of experts is being formed here to control the sale of rubies from the Mount McDonnell mines, in Sontb Australia, and instructions have been sent to Adelaide to purchase ten theusand shares in the company. A vacancy having ooourred in the House of Commons, owing to Sir Henry Holland, M.P. for Hamstead, having been raised to the peerage, Mr Hoare, Unionist has been returned for that seafc unopposed.