LATE CABES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 123, 17 May 1888, Page 2

LATE CABES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. [PEH UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London, May 15. The Imperial Government are in a dilemma on the Chmexe question, owing to the action of the Aus ruliaa colonies. They are in active correspondence with the Chinese Minister on the surtjept. In the Home of Commons, Mr Heaton demanded the production of Sir Henry Pitrkes' protest against the influx of the Chinese, also copies of all treaties be» tween England and China. Mr W. H. Smith replied that the Government could not comply with the request. ' The House of Commons has agreed to a vote of £850.000 being placed on the jN avy Estimates for an auxiliary squad* , ron. The ships are to to be completed in March,- 1890. , The cricket match between Surrey and the Australians resuited in a win for the , latter by one innings and 148- runs. Sur- , rey scored 89 in their first and 126 in < their second innings. I

Replying; to Mr Labouchure in the House of Commons Lord Charles Beres* ford said everyone in the Soudan felt grateful to Australia for the assistance rendered the Government by the New South Wales contingent, and that the necessary guns Cot the defence of coaling stations would be completed in three years. In future the Government intended to order guns at the same time that the orders were given for ships. Mr Fritchard Morgan has stopped work in his gold mines in Wales, in consequence of the Government restraining him by injunction of the Court from removing the geld without permission of the Crown.

The new war vessels to be constructed will be an improvement of H.M.S. Archer's type, and will be longer, heavier faster, and better armed than the Colo* nial Conference expected.

The Daily News says the despatch of Sir Henry Parkes on the Chinese question breathes defiance to England, and will not strengthen Lord Salisbury's hands in his parleying with the Chinese Government.

Sydney, May 16. A petition has been presented to Par* liament by the Chinese residents praying that the present legislation may not affect their rights, and that it may not affect those who have' left the colony hoping, under the privileges of the present law, to return.

McKee, the railway stationmaster at Hay, committed suicide to day. It is slated that his accounts were falsified, and that the defalcations are aboul LIOOO.

Bbisbase, May 16. No clue has yet been discovered as to the perpetrator of the outrage and mur* der of the girl at Bunya, The murderer is believed to have been a black fellow.

Melbottbne, May 19. The captain of the Albany lias been fined £50 for bringing his vessel with Chinese passengers alongside the wharf in defii ance of the orders of the authorities.

Owing to tiie splendid rains a great harvest is expected throughout the agri* cultural districts.