TOWN EDITON.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 62, 22 November 1888, Page 3

TOWN EDITON.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PKR USllM'i PHEJSS A^SOCI lflON.) Kec«md No. ember 22, 1.25 i-.m. London, November 21. The doctors attending Lord Ennismore, who is lying ill at Victoria in Vancouver, were enabled to hold a three hours' consultation by cable with Sir A. Clarke, an eminent Lon don physician. Wool sales have been effected at from from £d advance compared with closing rates of last series. Arrivals to date — 8000 bales. It is expected 160,000 will be available for next series. Several of Gladstone's supporters have voted with th.» Government against their lender's amendment to the Ash bourne Act Extension Bill. The Opposition are likely to make an effort in Committee to gft the amendment reduced from fivt' million to two million. Lord Dunraven said that if a colonj is granted the right to select its own Governor, it might equally ask to have a voice in choosing the sovereign of the Empire. Balfour, who was indisposed through a chill, is better. Edward Harrington was fined £600 for contempt at the Times-Parnell Commission for publishing an article in the Kerry Sentinel accusing the Commission of being biased. Berlin, November 21. The German Government propose to expend a 117,000,000 marks in the con» struction of new ironclads. Received November 22, 2.20 p.m. Sydney, This Daj. In the House of Assembly, - v ir | Henry Parkes' motion, That an ad- 1 dress be presented to the Queen with reference to the appointment of future Govenors, was carried by 45 to 2. A German warship has visited Gilbert Islands and punished the natives of Tarawa and Apraing for offences committed against German resident. Melbourne, 1 his Day. The man injured at Job'a Gully by an explosion of powder has since died. Enquires made into the alleged outrage in the house of a woman named Blake, prove that the sole object was robbery, and that the assault was not committed. Beisbanr, This Day. A Bengal tiger broke loose from a menagerie last night, and before it was caught, one of the attendants was torn from head to foot by tho animal. He is in a very critical condition. The proprietor of the show was also badly lacerated. Thursday Island, Nov 22. News per steamer from Hong Kong. The Saigon rice crop has failed in consequence of the drought. Pekin crops are in good condition. An engagement has taken place between the Imperial forces and insurrectionists at Formosa. The latter were completely routed and lost a hundred.