CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 135, 14 June 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copywght I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.. | London, June 12. The proposal to introduce farthing bids at the wool sales has b«ea withdrawn pending enquiries which are. to be made of the colonial Chambers of Commerce as to their views on the subject. j The E.M.S. Buapehu has arrived, all| well, at Plymouth, with her meat in good condition.

The Lancet urges that great caution should be used in introducing Pasteur's scheme for the examination of rabbits, alleging that the soil and water would teem with microbes to such an extent that a plague, involving destruction to human life, might possibly be the result.

The hop market is firm, and prices have advanced a few shillings.

The Times this morning, in an article on the Chinese question, says the recent enactment of the Legislature of New Somth Wales is absolutely incompatible with the treaties of Nankin and Pekin ; but white i fhis is so, England is prepared to indulge tho colonists to the last point consistent with national honor and equityThe Bishop of Limerick has directed the clergy of his diocese to strictly en* force the recent Papal rescript,

Capetown, June 11. The lonic sailed for New Zealand on Saturday. r

Cracow, June 12.

The Eusiian Army manoeuvres are being carried on on an extensive scale on the Polish frontier, and it is expected that a similar demonstration will shortly take place farther west on the Austrian frontier.