CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 24, 7 August 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ , By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright IPEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, f . London. August 4. Mr W. A. Hunter states that he is unable to entertain the Crofter emigration scheme of Miss Jessie Campbell Brown I and other Sydney Indies until has ' fall details. ! Bishop Moore, of Ballarat has arranged to establsh an Order of the Sisters of Nazareth and an Order of the Fathers of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost' The freights to Sydney and Melbourne have advanced os per ton. The Citizen states that Lord Carrington, the Governor of New South Wales, has intimated his desire to resign his position before the end of the year. . j The Arawa has arrived at Plymouth" from New Zealand. I A poor assortment of kauri gum, con« j sisting of 7<H) cases, was offered by : i auction to«day, but the price realised was very low, and most of it was withdrawn. In the House of Lords the committee cancelled the colonial stocks clause in the Trustees Liabilities Bill. The report of the Pan Anglican Con* ference has been published. It whs resolved not to recognise any divorce without adultery, and to refuse remarriage to any who were guilty of the laws of divorce. A polrgamist was not to be admitted to baptism. A favourable report was read on the proposal to allow Colonial Primates to rank as Archbishops but, no action was taken in the matter. Rome, August 4 . The Italian Government have informed the Great Powers that they have planted the Italian flag at Zulla. South of Mas sowah. Beblin, August 4. The German Government have assumed the protectorate over Pleasant Island, one of the Marshall group.