LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 111, 26 March 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.

(pee press association.)

Received March 26, 12-30 p m

Sydney, This Da?

The Sydney Daily Telegraph, in the course of an article this morning, referring to the N.Z. Exhibition to be held at Dunedin, says it is full time the N.S.W. Government called a halt on the expenditure in connection with exhibitions.. "N.S.W., the article proceeds, is New Zealand's best customer, yet the latter' s treatment of that colony by the deliberate exclusion of the only export, coal, showed that in the near future that article was certain to be shut out of New Zealand altogether in favor of Westport and Kussell coal.

Minerva has been scratched- for the Sydney Cup

The Government have received a communication from M. Pasteur, declining to permit his representative to vaccinate sheep as a precaution against anthrax unless the Government allow recent experiments in connection with the exterminar tion of rabbits to be eealt with on their merits.

London. March, 25

Emigrants who have returned from the Argentine Eepuhlic in a destitute condition , complain that the country is crowded with unemployed. Colonel Hughes Hallett, MR for Rochester, has resigned his seat in.the House of Commons. . . .:

The Maori football team sail on Friday. J.'.' :

New Zealand hemp is quoted *at £37 5/- to £37 10/- per ton. Mr John Bright bad a serious relapse yesterday, but rallied slightly. The Liberal-Unionist Party hold a conference at Birmingham on the 24 th April, at which important decisions, are expected to be arrived at.

Beblin, M arch 25,

It has been decided to indict Mr J. E. Klein, correspondent of a San Francisco newspaper, in the Consular Court at Apia, Samoa.

Viknka. March 25

The Emperor of Austria will pay a visit to the Emperor of Germany in May.

Sydney, March 25

Wheat— Adelaide, 5/6 ; New Zealand, 4/10 to 5/2. Flour — JRpller made, £12 10/- to £12 14/-; stone made, £11 15/- to Ll2 10/-: pollard, 1/5 to 1/6. . Bain has fallen, but it will not be sufficient unless a really heavy fall takes place immediately. The lambing even where the conditions are favourable, must be poor, and squat ters will again have to face a failure similar to iast year. , ' '..

Melboubnb, March 25

Mr Moloney, solicitor, who is opposing the Premier, Mr Gillies* has sued the Age for LSOOO damages for n alleged libel in connection with his candidature.