LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 95, 16 February 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright i PKB UNITKD PBFB3 ASSOCIATION, t London, February 14. The British Government has granted a pension of £100 per annum to the wife of R. A. Proctor, aatronomar. The Quagle (?) Gold Mining Company of New Zealand has been registered, with a capital of £120,000. At to-day's wool auction 14,000 bales were catalogued. Molloy, the Invincible, is committed for trial on a charge of perjury. Professor Izard, of the Academy - of Music has obtained a divorce from his wife, Marie Tempest the original . " Dorothy" in the opera of that name, and damages of LSOOO against the co-respondent Leslie, proprietor of the newly-opened Lyric Theatre. Sir GKB. Baden-Powell states that his experience with - the Canadian Pacific route proves that it is open all through the winter. Pa bis, February 14. , M. Floquet, the French Premier, has resigned* It is proposed to refer the question of the revision of the Constitution to the electors. A crisis is expected. , Zanzibar, February 14. A hitch has occurred over the release of the captive missionaries, and ' a relief party was repulsed with great violence. It is expected the natives will attack Bajamogo. Bslobadjs, February 14. . ■ A plot has been discovered to depose the King of Servia, and the leaders of the Radical party are al- - leged to be involved. The King's coronation ceremony will take place in this city in May, and the occasion will be marked by great pomp andaplend*: - our. St. PuncßßßViie, February 14. Russia is pressing Turkey for the payment of the war indemnity. ■.-■.. Snorer., February 16. Sir James Hector states that the New Zealand exhibit* for the ifcria Exhibition will leave on February ' 28th Numerous cases of garrotting have occurred recently. It is almost an epidemic, but convictions are hardly obtainable, owing to the perjury of witnesses. To-day, however, the Judge made an example of the two men who were convicted, by sentencing them to ten yean' penal servitude. He also ordered the arrest of five witnesses for perjury. Received February 16, 1. p.m. HowoKoira February 14. Chinese residents in this colony are petitioning England to urge the withdrawal of the African and Chinese Exclusion Bills. They also protest against tae action of America and Australia in jlac--ing restrictions on the immigration of Chinese. LoßDOir, Februiry 14 Mr Pritchard Morgan, M.P., intends to 1 move in the House of Commons for the - abolition of royalties on gold. English, Irish, and Scottish delegates are likely to attend the Australian Presbyterian Assembly. Mr Justice Fraser mil probably represent England. It is reported that Parneil is in a oriti- •' cal state ot health. New Zealand mutton is nnchangecL Australian mutton has advanced oneeighth. Beef, three pence three farthings ■ to four pence halfpenny. Pabis, February 14. The Government have been defeated and the Premier has resigned. St. PETgssßusa. February 15. . The Bussian Government fear thai; thai Ameer's presence in the neighborhood of the frontier will incite the fanatical Mollaho of Bokhara to rebellion. The press in this city urge the immediate mobilisation of Bussian troops on the frontier for the purpose of stopping the Ameer's progress. Mblboubwb This Day. Mr Jenkins, of the firm of iroufbunders of that name, has failed personally. His liabilities aro put down at .£58,000. The assets show a surplus of .£25,060. He is another victim to the land boom. Two land brokers named Cohen and Scott have been arrested on a charge of selling more land than owned. Poor Dabwijt This D»y. A black man murdered a man named Hamilton in the northern territory, but the murderer has since died.