CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 103, 7 March 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright 1 |PEH UNITiD PRBSS ASSOCIATION ' London, March 4. Sir Thomas Gladstone, brother to exPreinier, is seriously, ill and his conditio u t is caus'ng anxiety to his friends. ] The H.AI.S. Ruapehu arrived all well at Plymouth yesterday. Her cargo of frozen meat is iu good condition. The prospectus of the Imperial Colonial Trading Company is just issued. The J capital is a million, in LlO shares, and is ' nearl}' ready to float. Shares to the < yaiue of LoO.OOO are reserved for New i Zealand. The Company hope to import a million sheep per annum. Palmer's t Ship Building Company, Limited Lon- ( don, are to build several steamers (fifty -, days' service) to inaugurate the trade John Rylands, merchant, whose death * was announced on December 11, has * bequeathed £160,000 to charitable aid 1 purposes. 1 Enghsh wheat is 6d dearer. March 5. : Yelchow, a New Zealander, is organising . a combined whaling fleet for the purpose of exploring the Antarctic regions. He hopes to leave with a party of Nor- . wegians for Victorialand within a year. Obituary — Uev John George Wood, the well-known naturalist, aged 67. i Entries made by the Bradford Chamber of Commerce show that the principal wool buyers greatly prefer washed wools. Washington, March 5. General Harrison was sworn in as President to-day. The weather was wet and greatly interfered with the success of the ceremony. In his speech, General Harrison stated that he was hopeful of the policy of protection being continued. The accumulated surplus would be reduced without mj uring domestic industry. Rome, March 4. The Pope in reply to congratulations on his 79th birthday, said it was madness to suppose that because the Italian Government was at present at peace with the Vatican it had finally abandoned the struggle against the Papacy. New Yobk, March 4. O'Connor beat Gaudaur as he pleased. The latter collapsed at the end of the first half mile. The water was rough. Time 19min 45sec. O'Connor leaves for Australia shortly to meet Searle.