LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 131, 5 June 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright LPSB f NITBD PBKBS ASSOCIATION.! Calcutta, June 2. Information has been received that the Thibetans are massing in large numbers in the Kapup Valley. Berlin, June 4. A Government crisis is imminent m Prussia, in consequence of the Emperor hesitating to promulgate.the Act prolonging the Diet until the freedom of the elections is guaranteed. It is reported that Bussia intends to raise the import duty on refined sugar to 60s per 100 kilos, and «n raw 40s, London, June 3. The Magnet, a financial journal, considers that the New Zealand loan will be " beared." Owing to- tbe stringency of the passport system adopted by (3-ermany, a large number of travellers have been prevented from crossing the frontier from Prance to Germany. St. Petersburg, June 3. The Moscow Gazette, in an article on the relations of Great Britain and China 1 advises the Chinese to seek the friend ship of Russia if prohibited from emigrating to the colonies. Paris, June 3. M. Fanre's proposal to make the con* sideration of the question of passport reprisals a matter of urgency, was de* feated by an enormous majority. Sydney, Jnne 4. The man Parkes, who was the victim of the outrage in a police cell last week, is dead. Thomas Sullivan, another bushranger connected with the sticking up of the Walgett Hotel, has been arrested. M elboubnb, June 4. Tbe Exhibition Building is~ approach* mg completion, covering 33 acres. The total deficiency of the absconded sharebrokers is £30,-000. The silver crisis involves Another to the extent of £14,000, while several others are arrange ing with their creditors. A desperate struggle took place this morning between two robbers and some members of the police force. One constable was disabled by a stone. One of the robbers named Ryan fired six times at his pursuers before he was captured. The Budget this year will show a surplus of half a million. The territorial revenue account shows an increase of £100,000. Bbisbane, June 4. A black trooper named Hubert has been arrested for a brutal outrage on a woman near Roma. The body of a young woman named Flora Cartwright has been found at the bottom of a well at Charters Towers, and a young man named Thomas Donovan, with whom she had been keeping company, has been arrested on a charge of murder. Port Dabwin, June 4. A party of blacks attacked the Chinese camp on the Roper River, killing one person. •• Received, June 5, 12.30 p.m. London, June 4. The match between the Australian eleven and Nottingham began at Nottingham to-day. The County in its first innings lost three wickets for 79 runs.