"Puff's" European Cables

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 144, 5 July 1888, Page 2

"Puff's" European Cables

. ♦ ■ : I suppose you har'n't heard any news from Europe by any other route? Yes, I got a private by Van- • couver last, night, but it w as *n*i working very well! The Signals wereV rather weak] Anything important going on ? No, the political outlook Is considered gloomy, and the moVements of the Russian forces' on the Austrian frontier hare been renewed ! Oh blow that ! Anything morel O'DonneU has got £10,000 damages ' against the Times, but inconsequence " df the disclosures that came out in evidence, Parnell and .47 Natiobalist Members have been arrested f6r complicity in the Phoenix Park murders I Ahah ! I thought those fellows would get inte trouble! Is that all the news? , . ' - .Gladstone has been detected in a" plot to blew up Balfour ! "Well, fi#B always blpwing vm gomebody ! Regular old Scold I What have tfcey done to him ? • I Oh, he got timely, notioe, and started on a yachting tour to Kamchatka in disguise I . ■ iln disguise, eh ? How «ould Gladstone possibly disguise himself ? ■I expect he turned i down hia collars -• and put on a pleasant smite ! ■ - Ah, yes, that 1 #6uldeitir6rj alter fais appfiarance! How's wkmJ ? Esther mixed I P^ces hive; hard-' ened 6d per cwt. for fau% mutton. ' but beet combingsare irregular, and taere's a decline of f ully per bushel in Crown brand and long sixea •sinea last sales ! ; I say^ , ther^ jbie something wrong' there, mustn't there ? I meanitdoesVt seem to pan out' quite right * for a report of the wool market ! Oh, does'nt it ? Well, it's, just , about asgood as most of the commercial news we .get >from < . Loadoa now- ' day*! " s . .....