LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 100, 24 March 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric , Telegraph.i--Copyright. | PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.! London, March 22. Her Majesty the Queen left London to-day for Florence.

Mr Joseph Chamberlain has delined all offers of recognition in'the shape of a title Jforhis.seryices in connection with the settlement of the Fisheries dispute between Canada andthe United States.

The orizaba , B : .frozen,ineat is selling at 3fd. Tne Fifeshire's -frozen mutton has arriyed in splendid <k»ndition. : The shipment of butter' from Port Chalmers has arrived in a perfectly sound condition.

Forty thousand bales are forward for the next wool sales. 1 Antwerp stocks^ are 10,000 bales below last year's stocks. Business in London is extremely quiet. Wool steamers muse arrive, off the British . coast not later than the Ist September to ensure the inclusion of their cargoes in the Septemberseries....'■"'.'

Colonial stocks show a alight re* action.

Lieutenant-Colonel Coltlogan, who took a prominent part in the -Soudan in 1883, iB now living ih a distressed condition in London, and is seeking employment as a prison warder. In the House of Commons* Mr Parnell moved the second reading of his Irish Land Act Amendment Bill. The Bill extends the power of the Courts in the matters of reducing arrears of rent and postponing evictions. Mr Chamberlain characterised the Bill as being only another phase of the Plan of Campaign. The motion was negatived by a majority of 85V A Ia.AAAV The Temperance party object to clause in the Local Government Bill*, which proposes to grant cainpensatipn for the refusal of licenses; The publican section strongly- 'Oppose the proposal to increase the license fee.

j ■ Vienna, March 21. , The Austrian Military Council, aro at present considering the action of Russia in continuing tHe massing of troops. Calcutta, March 23. The rebel stockade on the road between Lingtu and Sikkim has been captured by the commander of the British expedition which was despatched to Sikkim for the purpose off dispersing the Thibetan raiders. Bucharest, March 23. King Charles, of Roumania, is negotiating with Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, with a view to effect an armed alliance --between Austria and Roumania against Russia. I Received March 24, 10 30 a.m; ! Bangoon," March 22. j The town of Myongoon has been burned by an incendiary, and -fifteen hundred .Burmese have been rendered homeless. .-■.». ry : London, March 23. Insurrection in North Borneo has been quelled, Bypney, March 23V H.M. gunboats Ardere and Harrierare to be sold by auction next month. Both are small vessels, and have become obsolete.