LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 122, 15 May 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LP"3B UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.] London, May 13. The B.s. Coptic arrived at Plymouth to-day from New Zealand, Lord Randolph Churchill, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, attacks the War Office, and corroborates the recent statements made by Lord Wolseley. The London Chartered Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 7£ per cent, per annum, and carries £20,000 to the reserve fund. It is thought that, in consequence of Lord Salisbury's recent utterances in the House of Lords, Lord Wolseley will resign his position as AdjutantGeneral to the forces. The press generally agrees that Lord Wolseley is the only official connected with the War Office possessed of suf- j ficient couragd to tell the truth plainly j on the subject of the inefficiency of! the service, and regrets that the only reward of his fearlessness and patriotism in the matter should have been a rebuke at the hands of the I Premier. Lieutenant- General Sir L. Nicholson, Inspector-General of Fortifications, who has been under examination by the Army and Naval Estimates Committee, admitted that thongh he estimated the expenditure at £900,000 for barrack accommodation, he only asked for £200,000 through fear of Mr Stanhope.

The Headquarters Staff has recommended that the First and Second English Army Corps be immediately placed on a war footing, and that the regulars be supplied with magazine rifles.

/ Hong Kong, May 12,

The Chamber of Commerce has protested against the action of the Australian Governments in excluding the Chinese, affirming that such action imperils the British interests in China, and. will alienate the sympathies of that country from England. Received Muv 15, 1.50 p.m. Sydney, This Day. The Government are willing to support Whitney's Cartridge Factory by purchaing ammunition from him, conditionally on the quality being good and the price reasonable. Adelaide, This Day. Cardinal Moran, in the course of an interview, said the Colonies were acting in an arbitrary and unchristian spirit in prohibiting the Chinese from landing. He admitted he had formerly held a different opinion, but after careful consideration he had seen good cause to change his views. A great deal of the agitation was got up by loafers and others too lazy to work. Berlin, May 14. There is increasing irritation m Government circles at the Eussian financial measures, and legislation aimed at Eussian securities is impending.