LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 104, 9 March 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph — Copyright. ftfe .-.. Fpku umitkd pbess association. l •' -r' London, March 8. Thfe ne%s that Stanley has safely reaefied^the^Arjuwhini ltiver is confirmed. A cargo of .wheat by the Inckeith has been sold at 36/6. been sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of making a seditious speech. Ten thousand weavers .hare struck at Arinentieres, a town on the northeast of France, and are attacking the factories. Troops have been sent there to restore order. , . ; ■ „;« *; A plan has been submitted §to the naval authorities for "the 1 construction of seventy warships, of an aggregate tonnage of 31 8, 000 idnaf at a cost of 21 £ millions. It is proposed to build eight battle ships of 14,000 tons each, two of 9000 tons, nine large and thirty three smaller cruisers and eighteen torpedo boats.. Thirty- two of jthese vessels are to be on the stocks within a year, and the whole are to be com* pleted by Apri£ 1.894., ...Mr.. Goechen in laying the proposals before the House of Commons explained ! that of the total cost 11£ millions wbnld be included in the ordinary naval Votes for the next five years, and 10 millions would be raised by additional taxation spread over seven years: The debate was adjourned for a fortnighjj.r : Sidney, March 8, The woman Del warie, arrested on a .. charge of systematic; baby/ farming, has been convicted and sentenced five years hard labour.' -' I / 1 1• i I ? ' A passenger by the Bockton, from Fiji reports that during the voyage* he was robbed of a portmanteau/ which conytinned 30 sovereigns, 30 napoleons,' - L'2oo worth of diamonds, an^a'lefter of of credit for LIOOO. Three is?, not 1 the slightest clue to the robber. • ; : ; '""'■■ •