CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 117, 9 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph, — Copyright JPBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ( London, April 5. Australian wheat 40e 6d, market depreased ; New Zealand long-Jberried wheat ex store, 29a Bd, weaker. \ The Pall Mall Gazette has been cast in • LISOO damages in a libel action. Sir Charles Russell continuing hie speech before the Commission, stigmatised the Attorney-General* conduct in bringing charges of complicity in the murder against Mr Parnell, without evidence to support them, as unworthy of a member of the Bar. April 6. This morning the Leicester police received a letter to the effect that daring the races it was intended to assassinate H.R. H. the Priuce of Wales. Sir Francis Dillon Bell, New Zealand's Agent-General, has gone to Pans,, where he will ramain until after the opening of the Exhibition. At the nautical inquiry into the circumstances connected with the ship Sir Waiter Raleigh goiug ashore on the French coast, the Board found that the master of the vessel was to blame for the accident, and suspended his certificate for nine montns. Mr 0. T. Ritchie, President of the L' cal Government Boird, has appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Vaccination Act. The Sugar Bounties Convention will reassemble on May Ist. In hia letter to the Royal Geograp hical Society, H. M. Stanley describes the new regions through which he passed on his march to the relief of Emm Bey. The tribes inhabiting the forest, he says are dwarfs iv stature, and cannibals. They are very numerous, and are great experts in the use of poisoned arrows. The statistics of the Board of Trade show that the value of the imports and exports for the last quarter ending Match 31st is thirteen and a half millions in excess of the corresponding period of laßt year. It is rumoured that notes of the value of 10s will shortly be put in circulation. BebliN. April 6. The corvette Sophie, now stationed on the East Coast of Africa, has been ordered to proceed to Samoa. M uch surprise is expressed here at the haste exhibited by the United States Government in sending warships to Samoa to take the place of those destroyed in the recent hurricane. It. is asserted that this action oh the part of the American authorities was the only reason for the action of Germany m .despatching a war vessel to Samoa. Ottawa. Apnl 6. Twelve of the counties and two of the cities of Ontario have decided in favour of the adoption of the Temperance Act. JNf kw Yobk, April 5. Terrible prairie fires have occurred in Dakota State, spreading over a vast extent of country. Hundreds of the inhabitants have been rendered homeless.