LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 109, 21 March 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

(per press- association.)

LevvoVr March 19.

Hep lying to a question in the House* of Commons regarding the departure of the Channel Squadron* for Tangier*, Sir James- Fergu&sos said! the matters at issue between the British Govern* ment and the Government of Morocco* were of a serious nature, and had reference to the murder of a British subject in Morocco and the extension of the cable system.

"Vanity Fair a well-known weekly paper, has been Bold for £25,000. Bidding at the Antwerp wool sales was spirited } the prices obtained were equal to the last London sales. An Australian off-coast cargo of wheat has been sold at from 36s 6d to> 375. Floor, ex store, is 28s 6d to 29». New Zealand frozen mutton i» quoted at 4d, Eeeeired March 21, 12-25 p.m. London, March 20. Mr Calvert, yarn spinner of Halifax, has been sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment for obtaining £120-,ooo> worth of goods just previous to becoming a bankrupt. Coal owners, in the north of England are largely supporting the proposed coal syndicate to control the output from the mines. Lord Salisbury, in a speech at Waterford, complained that the opponents of the Government were resorting to a cataract of falsehoods for the purpose of obtaining their ends. The Government Would largely increase facilities for the occupation of land in Ireland by small owners whea order was restored. Nothing but a direct vote of want of confidence — not the mere adverse result of a few elections — would induce them to dissolve Parliament. ....,- .'"■".'