LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 56, 18 October 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. I PEB UNITED PBEB9 ASSOCIATION, i London, October 16. At a meeting of Dalgety & Co., limited to-day, Mr Arthur R. Blackwood urged the leading English commercial firms to combine in supporting the Pacific cable company. The repairs to the pedestal of the statue erected in honor of General Gordon in Trafalgar Square having been effected the ceremony of unveiling it took place to-day. The owners of the British collieries propose to form a syndicate with a capital of eighty millions to take over and work the mines.

The copper syndicate has announced they will purchase the ordinary brands of copper at £78 per ton and sell unconditionally at £78 10s.

The Times has delivered to the Parnell Commissioners its charge and a majority of Farnellites have also disclosed what documents are in their possession. San Fbancisco, October 16. Hundreds of Chinese who have been on a visit to China are returning here, but the authorities will not permit them to land. A judge of the Calif ormian Circuit Court has upheld the decision excluding the return of former Chinese residents. The appeal will be carried to the Supreme Court. Calcutta, October 16. The followers of the rebel Ishak Khan have yielded to the Ameer's troops, and Ishak has fled to Kerki. Newcastle, This Day. The proprietors of the Stockton Colliery had completed arrangements to coal the Union Company's Waihora. but as the steamer was using non-TJnion trimmers the miners threatened to cease work if the vessel was coaled. The manager has promised to coal the Waihora in Sydney harbor, but the men still hold to the position taken up. Hobabt, This Day. Arrived at noon yesterday — Arawa, from London. She sails again for Wellington at noon to day. She has. 108 passengers for Australian ports, and 139 for New Zealand.