GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 113, 24 April 1888, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

I>y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright lI'KK UMTKLt I'KKSS ASSOCIATION, j London, April 22. Tlie Orient Steamship Comi-anj have ( not declared a dividend (his jeur, but bar- increased the reserve fund by £270 (KM.». Tlit* reported poisoning of Brazilian natives is officially denied. Four boyeotters who appealed against the term of imprisonment- for which they ' were sentenced have had the term i doubled. 1 he members of the National League are greatly incensed at ihe increased inn prisonment imposed by the Appeal Court iv the recent cases. At s triul to-day of (he Klswick factory ; wire gun a projectile weighing 3691bs was thrown a distance of 21.000 yards. I The Peers and their heirs are almost unanimous in petitioning for a reform of : the House of Lords. ' In the House of Commons to«day the T^ocal Grorernment Bill was passed through its second reading oh the Toices. The compensation clauses, pronding for compensating publicians whose licenses were refused, were freely debuted. The frozen meat by the steamer Liguria from Melbourne is selling at 3^d per lb. It is expected that the New South Wales loan will be oyer subscribed at H>3. Reports received from them ssionanes in Brazil allege that 4000 of the nati.es livinu in the outlying provinces the • have bpen poisoned in order that possession of their land might be obtained, and they also assert that there ia another scheme on foot to poison 5000 more. At the wool auctions to-day all good cossbreds, greasy and scoured, realised full prices, and in some instances there whs an improvement on last quotations. Medium sorts maintain February closing rate*, but inferior and faulty qualities are weak and irregular. Professor Omerod, to whom was forwardel specimens of the inject which hud nttacksd the wheat crops in the Kangitikei district, has identified them as the true Hessian fly. New Zealand butter ranges from 29s to 84<, aud the market has a downward tendency. At the wool sales yesterday, 1300 bales were disposed of. Greasy combings were aearer, and the prospects are improving. | Paris, April 22. The centenary of La Perouse, the French navigator after whom is named the point where the cable from New Zealand touches in New South Wales, will be celebrate^ in this city. M. Carnot, fearing Boulangerist de monstrations, has deferred his tour to the Southern provinces. A collision haa occurred between Parisian students who ridiculed Boulanger, and the followers of Boalanger. |The disturbance beeume so serious that tiie assistance of ihe police ha<i to be called in, and finally the crowd were diaper-ed, but not before many of the rioters were injured. iVI . Goblet threatens that France will retaliate should England impose a duty on bottled wine.