CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 34, 30 August 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PErt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London', August 27. The wheat market shows a rise of Is per quarter, and flour 6d per 2801 b It has h<>»»n arranged that the Sugar Bounties Treaty will be signed by the - Powers on Wednesday next, with the ex i ception of France. i W. and J. E. .Redmond's M.P.'s have been arrested on a charge of conspiring to prevent the re-letting of lands in Ire land. Both accused hare been committed to bailMr Walsh, editor of the Wexford People, has been arrested with Messrs Redmond Bros, on a charge of conspiracy. His Holiness the Pope has created Laumreston a separate diocese ot the Roman Catholic Church. August 28. J. S. Simmons, the sronaut, ascended at the Irish Exhibition now being held at the Olympic circus, South Kensington, The upward journey was succest>fully accomplised, but in the decent the car collided with a tree, and Simmons was killed. It is reported that the Sultan of Morocco is wreaking bloody vengeance on the murderers of his son l'rince Muley. He pursued the insurgeats until he surrounded and besieged them. In consequence of the excitement the lives of foreigners are endangered. Eight thousand quarters of New Zealand wheat, July shipment., have been sold at 37s 9d. San Francisco. August 25Sailed — Alameda, for Auckland, with the English mail. Capetown, August 25. The officer who was commanding the Boers when they invaded the Ehamas territory, in Transvaal, last month, ex plains that the engagement which took place against the natives arose out of a misapprehension, and that there was no desire to invade the Khamas territory. President Kruger has sent a message to Sir Her iiles .Robinson expressing his willingness to cordially co-operate in allaying the excitement occasioned. ; Berlin, August 25A destructive fire 'iroke out in some factories at Hamburg to-day, causing immense damage, and it is estimated that the loth amounts to several million marks Six lives were lost. August 28. Malietoa, exkiug of Samoa, who was recently deposed and taken by a German warship to the Cameroon*, has been deported to Germany, and arrived at Ham> burg yesterday. The Baltic squadron of the German fleet is preparing for sea. Home, August 28. The Italian fleet is assembling at Gosta, on the coast of Sicily. It has been officially explained that the fleet has been assembled merely for a cruise.