CABLE NEWS.
•- . i i JJy Eleqtric Telegraph. — Copyright '. IPEtt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London. April 17. : An April shipment of Australian wheat comprising, 80,500 quarters, has been sold to arrive, at 335. At the wool sales to- day prices were unchanged. Crossbreds are very firm at last quotations. The warship Caroline has arrived from Honolulu. She reports planting the British flag on Fawn, Christmas, and Penrhyn Islands, recently annexed by Great Britain. ; Uovq Kong, April 16. '■ Cftchao, the capital of Tonquin, has been devastated by a windstorm Over a hun.lred people were killed and there : are a thousand injured persons in the hospitals. Candahab. April 16. An attempt to murder the Governor of the city proved unsuccessful, though i he only managed to save his life by flight, Capetown, April 16 Owing to the threatening attitude of the Dainara tribes in South Western Africa a body of British troops has been dispatched to Walvisoh Bay for the protection of Europeans residing ther.*. Bkbun, April 17 German holders of Russian stocks have been advised semiofficially to sell.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 111, 19 April 1888, Page 2
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176CABLE NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 111, 19 April 1888, Page 2
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