CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 101, 27 March 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright j I PER UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION;! . London, March 24 . The Committee of the Wesleyan Conference have resolved i« favor ot tUe ; union of delegates from the Primitive x Methodist, Bible Christian Methodist, c Free Methodist, and JN'ew Methodist: ( Churches in one affiliated conference a Two hundred and fifty tons of Mawd* j ditch ( Wales) quartz ' have been crushed, and yielded 400oz of gold. . In the House of Commons last night * Mr Harrington. M. P., asked the Got* ] eminent if it was not possible to devise c some means whereby a stop might be put to the practice of selling imported meat -\ as English. In reply, -Lord Onslow, j Political Secretary to the Board of Trade, suggested that the vendors should be 1 prosecuted by the people to whom they . made the false representation. , Mr Goscuen's Conversion of Stock Bill J has been passed by the House of Lords. ; j A meeting which Mr William O'Brien i intended to address to day at Yonghal r ! has been proclaimed. j : In a speech at Staly bridge, Mr Balfour, i i Chief Secretary for Ireland, said the charges brought against his administration in Ireland were radical ous and gro* "tesque falsehoods. Mr Balfour declared : that Mr Gladstone's allliance with Mr Purnell was an evil augury of the politic cal future, and was merely sought by Mr Gladstone in order to purchase 84 unstable Irish vote*. The Parnellites, even though they were assisted by Mr Gladstone would never succeed, unless the people were entirely ignorant of Irish affairs. The Government have agreed to a thorough revision of the pension list, and and have accepted the suggestions con* tamed in Mr Bradlaugh's motion dealing with the subject. A committee of inquiry will be appointed to investigate the whole question Three hundred and eighty thousand bale 9of wool have arrived to date. The market is dull. Mr J: A. Balfour, speaking at Stalybridge, said the Irish policy of the Government was bearing most excellent fruit in Ireland, which was beiag gradually relieved of a heavy yoke. Consols, lpH; New Zealand five per cents., 106 ; ins&iiqed, 1035.. Wheat is quiet. Australian, ex-ware-house, 39s 9d ; New Zealand, unchanged. For cargoes of new crops, sellers ask 33s 6d. Flour, 24s 6d to 255. Tallow, mutton, 26s 3d ; besf, 24s 3d. TLere is also an active demand for rabbit sknis. New Zealand hemp is L2B 16s to L 29. Pig iron, 43s 3d. Sugar is firm. German, 14s 9d ; Java, ISs 9d. Bucharest, March 24. J. C. Bratiano. Premier of Boumania, has declared that any -power disturbing the peace of Europe will be regarded as an enemy bj Boumanis, and that .country will resist any attempt made to push troops through its territorj without j consent. Sofia, March 24. Bulgaria has decided not to reply to the Porte's notification to the effect that the election of Prince Ferdidand was illegal. Constantinople, March 22. It is stated that 10,000 troops are quartered at Sebastopol, ready to embark at short notice. It is believed their des« tination is Varna, a seaport of Bulgaria. Vienna, March 23. Speaking at a Military Conference in this city, Herr Tisza said he was certain that peace would be maintained, as Russia was entirely unprepared for war.