LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 108, 19 March 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph— -Copyright. I PER UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION. | London, March 18. Deposits in the Irish banks are largely increasing. The Channel squadron has sailed for Tangiers to support the British demands respecting the cable question. Mrs Langtry is in precarious health. Mr Parnell has supcenaed Lord Carnarvon and >ir "WV V. Harcourt to give evidence on his behalf before the Commission.

Cabuli, March 17. It is reported that the Ameer ia I returning here. Hong Kong, March 17. A report has reached here from Tientsin that the natives of Kaungsi have massacred a hundred Freneh-. men. St Petersbtjbg, March 18. It is stated here that the Czar has advised ex- Queen Natalie not toreturn to Servia. Paris, March 17. Foreigners who are partisans of Boulanger are being expelled from France. Queen Victoria, at present sojourning at Biarritz, will meet Queen Maria Christina of Spain at San Sebastian on the 27th instant. March 18. A farther sum of fo'ty million francs is required to tide the Comptnr d'Escompte over its difficulties. Of this amount the Bank of France is willing to advance one-half if the balance is subscribed outside. Altogether thirty-six million francs have been provided, and shares' in the

Comptoir have closed at 220 francs. General Boulanger, speaking at Tours, expressed himself in favour of a liberal, tolerant, hospitable and nonparliamentary Republic, and said it wa3 not possible that France could revert to a monarchical system without encountering a violent upheaval. Sydney, March 18. The Government have decided to grant supplies of seed wheat to farmers in the drought-stricken districts. Brisbane, March 18 The schooner Northern Belle has been wrecked at Banks Group. Four Europeans and 16 Kanakas were drowned. Melbourne, March 18 William Harrison, sentenced to death for the murder of John Duggan at Elmore, near Bendigo, in June last, was executed this morning at Sandhurst Gaol. The condemned man protested his innocence to the last. Receded March 19, 1 p.m. MfILBOUBNB, This Day. Wheat is quoted at 5/10\ ADEtAiDiv Tlife Day, Wheat, 5/3 ; very firm ; settlers ask 5/6. Paris, March Iff. By a colliery explosion in the Department of Gard, in the 6outh of France, 15 lives were lost. London. March 18 J. L. Carew, M.P. for North Kildare, who was recently sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment, was forcible stripped on his refusing, to wear the gaol clothes, and remained naked in his cell for 4 days.