CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 125, 22 May 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, j

I.onbon, May 18.

An Australian wheat cargo of 8500 quarters, May sliipment. has sold at 345«. Tlie Duke of Cambridge bas or.lend 25.000 Volunteers into camp to undergo special training. Other camps will De fonnpd iv succession until the whole of the Volunteer force has undergone a course of continuous drill. In the House of Commons this even, ing, Sir James Ferguson, Under Secre* tary for Foreign Affairs, repeated his denial that England had concluded a treaty with Italy and he stated that England was free to deal with any questions as they occur. May 20. Liberal concessions have been granted by the Government, to enable Mr Morgan to resume work in the gold mines recently discovered in- Wales. New York, May 19 Reports haye received that serious floods have been experience! in the neighbourhood of Quincy city, in Illinois owing to the Mississippi River having overflowed its banks. One .thousand acres of winter wbeat have been devastated, and one hundred persons rendered homeless, The yield of wheat for this winter is estimated at 27 per cent below the average for previous years. Pabis, May 19. A French syndicate are financing a Russian loan to be placed on the market in autumn. Belgrade, May 19.

A conspiracy, involving the army, has been discovered, showing that it was in« tended to arrest King Milan. Many of the trusted adherents of the Eing have proposed to proclaim Priuce Petei Karageorgovitch as King. Ottawa, May 19.

The Marquis of Landsdowne, Guvernor»General of Canada, on leaving for Kngland, promised lo invite the attention of the British Government for the ap pointmont of a conference to improve the . trade relations between Australia and Canada. Bomb, May 19. The Vatican expresses surprise at the recent manifesto of Catholic members of tlie Home Bule party, and declares that it is determined to enforce the terms of the decree. Washington, April 19. The contest for the presidency of tbe United States will probably be c-nfin.d to President Cleveland and Mr J. G Blame. The support of the democrats j will be accorded to the first named gentleman. Dublin, May 20. Mr J. Dillon. MP-, m addressing a public' meeting, declared that if the Papal decree was accepted by the popu> lace, nine-tenths of tbe Irish bishops and clergy ought to retire for hariug misled the people. Beelin, May 20. The G rman Government are ab ut to take stringent steps to prevent any mtiuiucy taking place between the residents of Alsace and Lorraine with France.