LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 66, 1 December 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

— V By Electric Telegttiph.— Copyright, (PBB UNITED FRfBS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 28. Rates of freight for cement have advanced sixpence per cask. Mr W. H. Smith announced in thai House of Commons that the proposed wheel tax would be abandoned. Sir H. A. Blake, iu a letter to the Times, says that although the Parnellites numbered among their sympathisers, one of the Newfoundland . Ministers, that fact never affected the official cordiality as between Governor and Minister, nor lessened mutual esteem. The committee of" Admirals awarded the victory in the recent naval manoeuvres to Admiral Tryou, who commanded the squadron origmal^r blockaded. November 30, Mr Henry George, the land reformer, bas been addressing crowded meetings in various parts of the kingdom, and was received with great enthusiasm in London. .Niiss Wiedemann, a German govern. ness, brought an action against Mr Robert Horace Walpole, heir to the earldom of Oxford, claiming Ll 0,000! damages for breach of promise of marriage and for libel in accasiag het <>f the theft of a ring. The defendant denied the libel, and pleaded that the, promise of marriage was not binding, having been made in Turkey. Thft evidence showed that Walpole btfc*"' , came acquainted with the plaintiff iii Constantinople, and deserted, heif; I after seducing her. A verdict wai given for Miss Wiedemann, witn : L7OO damages. . y y Hi .',- Tallow (firm)— Mutton, 34s 6d te ■ 355 ; beef, 33s 6d to 345. The quanti.jT in stock is 6000 casks. . . . J.. — Sugar (firm)— German beet, 13s 9dt Galvanised iron — Gospel oak, LIT 10s. .-jv._ Tbe Prior Hill's cargo of wheat wd& soid for 39s 6d. Some Adelaide caki goes were sold at from 40s to 425. -.Y,The victim of an agrarian murdet was buried in the same grave as hi* sister at Westmeath, the coffin beinijjfc placed underneath that of his sister. The grave was visited at night, rev opened, the sister's coffin removed* and the remains scattered about th* ground. JJJJr Mr Gainford Bruce, a Tory, #4* elected for the Hoi born seat in thi House of Commons, vacant by the death of Colonel P. Duncan, by 4398, votes and his opponent, Lord Comg>ton, a Gladstonite, polled 3433. Tbe New Zealand Native Football T 'am be it Liverpool and diatriot byy a goat ani siz tries to not dng. Belgkad :, N.Tember 30 King Milan's divorce has been quashed on the grounds of irregular* ity in the proo ladings. Washington, Novc-ber 28. :, At the trial in Chicago of a dynamiter named Kron'ch, an informer gave evidence that on a recent, occasion the prisoner was about to throw a bomb at President Cleveland's carriage, and was only with difficulty dissuaded by his eompanion. y.y... BsßiiiK, November 2U-r .' The German press evinces anxiety . at the growing strength of parties hostile to Germany at Vienna, ahd fears it will affect the Triple' Alliance: There has been friction lately between Prince Beuss, German Ambassador at Vienna, and Count Toafe, President of the Austrian Ministerial Council. The quarrel is attracting some attention in diplomatic circles. Constantinople, Nov* 28.. The Sultan has declined to receive Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria. Received December 1, 1 p.m. London, November 30... : Lord Salisbury delivered a political address at Edinburgh last night, aiid, was received with much enthusiasm. He said he believed Mr Gladstone had no plan of Home Rule ready. To separate tiie Legislatures ofthe two countries would involve entire separation, and endanger the safetyof England. The result would probably be a civil war in Ireland itself. '• ■; _£95,000 worth of spurious silver ip current in England. The Anglo-German blockade of tiie East African coast begins on December 2: . 2000 tenants ofthe Bev. M. McLeod on the Island of Skye have refused to pay their rents. Y . ..-<■ General Sir H. W. Norman, Governor of Jamacia, has been appointed Governor of Queensland. Vibnna, November 29,. The Austrian and Hungarian icazrnals resent the hectoring tones of the German press. Pab_b, November ss. The French hanks have agreed to help to float the balance ofthe Panama Ga^l Loan.