CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 107, 10 April 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

• I By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I , -. : London,; April 6. Th« quotations for wheat and floor are , unchanged. New Zealand hemp is quoted atTL27 15s to L2B. Consols, 1011. At the wool sales 12,000 bales were catalogued, for which there was a good >• demand, ! The Sugar Bounties Conference re« sumed its : - : sittings to-day, Baron de Werms presiding. It was that all tlie Powers had consented to the abolition of the bounties. I Six meetings, which have been aw ranged to be held on Sunday in Counties Clare and Cork, have been proclaimed., j At the wool i»lea 32,500 bales have! been catalogued, of which' 1500 were withdrawn. The bidding was spirited, and good tales were effected, but there, was no quotable change in prices as com- ; pared with closing rates in £ ebroary. Good, sound merinos are unchanged ; medium and inferior, id lower ; : good greasy sorts are very firm; medium and inferior unchanged ; finer crossbreds firm, bat the lower qualities are from par to |d lower than in February. Wheat is quoted at 33a. It is considered that three-fourths of the three per cents will be converted be» fore the 12th inst: Information received from Soeloo Is* lands, situated in the Eastern ArchipeU ago, states that severe fighting has taken place between the natives and 1 tho Spaniards. Tbe Spanish loss was 10 killed and 70 wounded. The natives had 200 killed. The Standard states that the Emperor of Germany persists in the betrothal of Prince Alexander. A Jew under Amenean protection has been arrested in Morocco. The author* ities have refused to grant any redress and the bdmbarbment of Tangiers is threatened. Many of the members of the Tory party are determined not to adopt as a whole the Local Government Bill introdvced by the Government, and it is thought that if the Government may be defeated. The Radicals are exultant. The Key. Price* Hughes |b making a crusade against the licensing clauses, in the Local Government Bill. He objects to the recognition of vested inters ests and the local option clauses, which he characterises as a mockery, as surrendering a portion of the license fees to local bodies will encourage the ratepayers to decide in favor of an increase of licensed houses. Berlin, April 6. Public opinion favors the stand taken by Prince Bismarck. against the marriage of Prince Alexander of Battenburg to Princess Victoria. The Cologne Gazette appeals to Prince Alexander's patriotism to refrain from pressing his suit. The North Deutsche Zeitung states that the betrothal, of Prince Alexander and Princess Victoria has been abandoned. ' ." ; '. It is stated that the Emperor declined to accept the resignation of Prince Bis* marck. . . . Prince Alexander or Battenburg will arrive here? on the 12th instant, and Her Majesty Queen. Victoria on the 20th. Dublin, April 6. An immense, number of Irish people are emigrating to America, and • over 1000 embarked to day for New York. Father Kennedy and 12 farmers have been sentenced to three months imprisonment for attending a League meeting at Newmarket, Cork, which had been pro* claimed. Massowah, April 6. The operations of the Italian troops have been suspended in consequence of the intense heat. Tbe majority of the troops will return forthwith, but the colonial corps will remain. It is hoped that parleying between the Negus and the Italian authorities will be resumed.