LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 120, 16 April 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright* (PER VSWEO 2KEBB ASSOCIATION.) Received April 16> 12.10 p.m. BebliS. April 15The Germm war ship Alexandria will replace the Sophia; at Samoa in July next* - A Berlin' syndicate" is arranging to start a German bank- at Sydney. London, April 15. Sir F. Billon; Bell has agreed to- act in? trust for debenture "Holders in the New' Zealand Midland Bailway. . ; Paris, April 15-. It is proposed* fo reform' the* Comptoir Des Compte with' a capital of forty million francs.- ..';■■ •' ■ The Senate has voted-onemlflion francsior fetes to be' held hi connection with the* opening of the exhibition. Boulanger will be charged 'with seducing the allegiance of officers in the army£ embezzling while occupying the position' of Minister of War; for making a seditious speech on the eye of the election of President Carnot. The Committee appointed by the Senate to ascertain the. grounds for prosecuting Boulanger, will examine one 'thousand documents, newspaper articles, visiting cards,, and Boulangerist songs. I Georgb Town (Demarara), April 15. | The negroes have looted the shops of the Portuguese traders. The rioting lasted, four days, when a war vessel arrived and : quelled the rising. Many of the ringleaders have been arrested. FIDNEY, This Day. Herr Stenbel the recently appointed? German Consul at Samoa, has arrived in? Sydney. - ; . ■; . Mblbouewr, This Day. Captain Whitney has re-opened negotiations for theestablishme'nt of a cartridge? factory in Victorui.. c . . . , Bbisb'anb. This Day. . A body of Unionist printers attacked several Non-Unionist printers in. the street last night and the latter wejce brutally maltreated. ■ ; : Syiwet, April 15. The Tekapo sailed .for Wellington at half past six this evening with Lord Onslow's family on board. Only .New; Zealand wheat is in the mar>ket at present, and there is a temporary overplns, but prices are maintained. Cardigan has been scratched for theCup. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald says that the Imperial aud Colonial Trading Company* talk of practically running River Platemutton out of the English market. Som» doubt, however, is felt whether the Company is not .prepared to take more mutton, than New Zealand can produce. Melboubnk. April 15. Active speculation is going on in wheat ; the present quotation is 5s 9d. Oats are in request, heavy New Zealand, 4s to 4k O^d; Tartarian, 4s 8d to 4s 4d/ Doctor Figg, a well-known medico, of Williamstown, has been arrested on acharge of performing an illegal operation. The patient is reported to be dying.