CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 103, 31 March 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Eleotric Telegraph.— Copyright JjPBB UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION. | London. March 27. It is stated tlift the French squadron in the Mediterranean fired twice at the Italian steamer Solfarino when between Genoa and Nice. The French naval authorities state that the firing was acci dental. March 28. At a meeting of the members of the (Gladstone party it was decided not to offer any opposition to the local Government scheme. A cargo of Australian wheat on passage has been sold at 32s 6d. Sir Dillon Bell has had an interview with M. Pasteur with reference to the latter's scheme for extermiaating rabbits. It is understood that M. Pasteur revealed tke whole process of his scheme to the New Zealand representative. The election for the House of Commons to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr Frank Ash Teo, M.P. for Gower, Qlenmorganshire, resulted in Mr Bandall, a Home Ruler, being returned. The Bight Hon. John Bright, speaking at Birmingham, declared that federation was a dream of absurdity. Mutton tallow is quoted from 25s to 26» ; beef, 23s 6d to 245. The number of casks in itoek. is 6000, There is a good demand for hides at 4fd to 4|d. St. Pbtebsbttbg, March 29. The Russian Government are about to ask the Great Powers to declase that Bulgaria is contumacious and revolu tionary Beblin, March 29. The floods in East Prussia have ren« dered 30,000 people homeless, and damage to the extent of 100.000,000 marks has been caused. Ten thousand bead of cattle has been drowned. The Emperor Frederick is suffering from sleeplessness, and is much troubled with coughing.