CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 139, 23 June 1888, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright {PEE TOOTED PRESS ASSOCIATION". I London, June 21. 1 Tbe sentence passed on Mr Dillon, M.P. for May> East, for criminal conspiracy, has been confirmed by the higher Court. Information has been received that severe gales hare been experienced on the coast of Iceland, and 400 French fisherman hare beeu drowned. At the wool auction to-day 13,000 bales were sold. Opening prices were fully maintained, and in some instances, they were exceeded. Greasy merinos j ! and scoured are hardening. I The apples by the Ruapehu are selling at 13s per box Obituary —Dr J. H. Zukertort, the , distinguished chess-player, aged 46 j In view of the recent adverse vote on I Mr J. Morley's amendment to the Local Government Bill, the Marquis of Salisbury has summoned a special meeting of his party for to»morrow to discuss the situation, and as to whether the Government are to be dictated to by the Marquis of Harrington, Mr Chamberlain, and the Liberal Unionists as the price of their support. , The resignation of Mr A. J. Balfonr as Chief Secretary for Ireland is believed to be imminent, although the statement has been semi- officially denied. IntheH>useof Lords, in replying to the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Elphinst »ne stated that the Government were discussing the question of the entry of foreign men-of-war and troopships into the Imperial fortifid forts. At the wool auctions to-day, 13,000 bales were catalogued. Prices remain firm. with an upward tendency. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2460,000 quarters and for the Continent 670,01)0 quarters. Shanghai, June 21. A-n alarming.rebelhon has broken out amongst the sufferers by the recent inundation of the Yellow River, and a large number of the troops are joiuing the rebels. Vibnna, June 20. The Hungarian Reichstag have sanctioned the war credit. Paris, June 20. The Journal des Debats has very little doubt that the reports of Mr Stanley's death are true, and that his deatk was owing to treachery on the part of Tippoo Tib. Hebat, June 19. A British exploring party have crossed the Afghan frontier between Peshawur and Abottabad. Calcutta, June 19. Information has been received that fighting has taken place between the rebel Aliwals and the British forces. Major Battye and Captain Wiuiston, of the Bengal Staff Corps, and six men, were killed. Bebhn, June SO. The Emperor William's manifesto to the people has created a favorable im» pression. The .Berlia correspondents of the Gaulois and Le Matin newspapers have been, expelled from Germany in conse* quehce of the attacks they made in their papers on the Emperor William.