LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 69, 17 November 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PKB VSITIiV PRESS ASSOCIATION.) , LoJfcos,- November 16. Hht» Nonconformist Urwomst Associt* . lion entertained Lords Salisbury a (2 [fnrtiirgCon at a banquet last evening &n\ presented an address in favor of the Unionist policy of sustaining law in Ire* land, signedU>y 86"4 out of 90J >onconformist clergymen in Ireland. ; A Westland wheat car^o sold at 40/ff. Eighteen hundred bags of Queensland sugar so it at from 10s 6d to 16s 6d. The New Zealand Caledonian Gold : Company, with, a capital of £100,000, jull w floated shortly. . It appears that Mr Jasper Pine, MT.P. r who was reported to be- drowned, wa» travelling by a ffoiyhead steamer, and fell overboard. ' * • The Maori football team beat the Hartlepool Rovers' Club by a trj to nil. At the Times- Fai'nell Commission < 'ourt, it was ruled that Sir R. Webster's request that the Fenian* wit oesses should be indemnified was premature, on the ground tiiat it was not known whether the confessions of such witnesses would? be complete. A witness deposed that the Ancient Order of Hibernians of vmenca purchased arms from Patrick Ford andi O' Donovan Rossa, who were members of the order. The Renfrewshire is posted overdue. Lori Salisbury, replying to an address at the Nonconformist banquet, said no one knew the meaning of Mr Gladstone's Home Rule scheme, and the Radical* appeared to be in a himilar position-to-the orew of a yessel sailing under sealed orders. ••'.-•. In the House of Commons, MrRC. Graham, M.P. for Lanark, N.W., deity ered biroselt ot a bitter and violent speech, directed against tiie police, and scathingly denounced the administration of the Home Department by Mr Matthews, particularly condemning 'him for allowing the Whitechapel murderers U> go unpunished, while his officers clubbed the unemployed for asserting their right to meet in public places. If the presoat brutal policy was persisted in,, there would be a repetition in London of the Chicago noti. Caibo, November 14 News has been received that the White/ Pasha has fought a great battle against the Dervishes, of whom a large ntimber were killed. Beblin, November 15. A German iionclad with the Emperor Will-am &ud Prince Henry on board grounded whilst entering Copenhagen. The proposed Russian loan occasions m. feeling of great distrust here. St. Petersburg, November 15* It is reported that Russia will attempt a huge conversion operation in DecemberSydney, November 16. Serious bush fires have occurred m Smithfield District. Numbers of the settlers have been burnt out, and a child named Bailey burned to death in the} fires. There is no sign of the drought breaking up, a»d stock-owners in the Dubbo district have disposed of 25,000 sheep at from 5d to 8d par head. Received November 17, 1.10 p.m. Buirssßts, November IS Emg Leopold, of Belgium informed .a deputation that the European; situation is full of dau&ev. Home, November 16 Parliamentary opposition to Premier. Crispi is growing critical. Toe German military staff has warned the Italian authorities thai the principal object in mobilising the army should be to gather promptly 300,<>00 men in the yalley of the Po. Washington 1 , Nove nber 16. The Republican* complain the !'emo~ crati ire doctoring the returns from the Southern States so as to t-ecure a majority in the House of Representatives. Paris. November 16. A German gamekeeper fired upon threeFrench chasseurs, who chased a roe buck across the frontier, and refuse i to retire. The Committee appointed to draw up a scheme for revision of the French Constitution propose to abolish both the Senate and Presidency of the Republic. The Government Le Pel Rifle Factory,, at Chatellerault, has been destroyed by fire. Damages estimated at 2,000,0(K> francs. Prado, the Parisian murderer, has been sentenced to death. Santa < 'buz (Canary Island), Not 1 5. A serious outbreak of yellow fever has broken out here. London, November 16. Australian mutton is quoted at 3M; New Zealand, 4sd ; beef, 3d to 3fd. It is not expected the frozen meat market will show any improvement before January. Lord Hartington, in his reply to an address of the Nonconformist Unionists, said the attitude of protest adopted by Ulster was an insuperable bar to the national autonomy of Ireland. He in« sisted that Gladstone ought to declare whether he was prepared to apply the power of England to crush the north of Ireland in the event of their resisting Home Rule.