CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 50, 4 October 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright Tpeb united pbess association. I LoND©y, October 1. Mrs Bernard-Beere, the well known actress, proposes to tour in the Australian colonies. At to-day's wool sale* 13,000 b&le* were sold. It is proposed to form a society in Lon don to report on the mineral resources of the colonies. Mr Balfour assured a large audience at Glasgow that tbe treatment of Ireland by Government was lenient, and the charges of cruelty io yards prisoner* were untrue. A cargo of wheat from Melbourne has been sold at 39s 3d ; Adelaide wheat, 40s. j Mr Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Glasgow, said it would be necessary to reconquer Ireland if it obtained local Government. Home Rule agaitalion was the daily bread of the Irish members. News from the Gold Coast has been received to the effect that the British expedition in the country killed 500 natives, losing on their own side 60 hussahs. Severe snowstorms in the North of England have caused great damage to the crops. Beblin, October I. Professor Geffken asserts that he obtained King Frederick's permission to publish his diary three months after his dea th. Pabis, October 1. Madame Adam, a French political writer, declares that Belguim has agreed to co-operate with Germany in any hostile movement against France. M. Freycinet, Minister ot War, has undertaken to reduce the Military Bud. get by £'A4D,oiy). M. Goblet is the course of a speech, declared that tho election of Boulangests meant anarchy, followed by a dictatorship and war. He also asserted that the Comte De Paris had allied himself with Boulanger. Washington, October 2. President Cleveland has approved the Chinese Exclusion Bill, but has suggested the Chinese passengers now on theiT way to the States should be admitted if provided with proper certificates. The Foreian Committee of the Senate will probably advise Congress to urge President Cleveland to invite Canada to join the United States. It is believed the Senate will apply to the Government, in the event of Canada accepting to assume the whole of the Dominion debt. Rome, October 1. The health of his Holiness the Pope is very unsatisfactory. After celebrating mass yesterday his Holiness fell back exhausted. St. Petebsbubo October 3. The Russian press advocate the exclusion of the Chinese from Siberia. Caibo, October 2. White traders report that the Mahdi ii dead. They know nothing of Stanley beyend the fact that he had left Bahr-el Gazel for Khartoum.