CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 122, 20 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. [ London, April 17. The Agents-General have addressed a letter to Lord Knutsford, asking him to remind Mr Goschen that the time iB opportune to redeem the promise he made last year to deal with the question of investing trust funds in colonial stocks. The sugar market is greatly excited owing to the burst up of the great American " Trust" formed last year. It is reported that the Times will pay .£SOOO into Court if Mr Parnell brings a libel action in England. The money required by the New Zealand Midland Bailway Company has been subscribed. April 18. Seven steamers, conveying. 6000 emigrants, sailed from Liverpool yesterday for America. The ship Bay of Cadiz, bound from Sydney to San Francisco, has been posted as missing. Boulanger's emissaries are arranging for a meeting of French colonists in London. If their efforts succeed, Boulanger will come over. The Bank rate of discount is 4£ per cent. New Zealand frozen meat is unchanged. Beef — Hindquarters, 4£; forequarters, 3|d to 4d. New Zealand butter by the Taintri and Kaikoura realised 695. The cheese shipped by the Kaikoura brought 46s to 525. America takes 4000 bales of wool at the present auctions. O'Connor has wired agreeing/ to row Searle on the Thames in August. Father McFadden, who was committed for trial for complicity in the murder ot Inspector Martin at Gweedore, has been admitted to bail. River Plate stock raisers are sending live cattle to England. Paris, April 17. The Senate has ordered M. Paul de Cassaignes' house to be searched. Belgrade, April 18. A report is ourrrent here to the effect that the ex-King of Servia divorced his wife and abdicated the Throne under the influence of a suggestion made to him, while in a hypnotic state, by Madame Christies, wife of the politician of that name. It is further stated that this lady frequently used King Millan as a mesmeric medium. London, April 17. It is reported that the placing of the balance of the South Australian loan at par early in the present month was merely a nominal transaction, and that the South Australian Government will be compelled to give brokers a private concession, equivalent to one-half per cent. Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, refuses to give any information on the subject. The ratification of the Sugar Bounties Convention by Parliament is considered doubtful. The sugar market is much excited owing to a remark let fall by Baron de Worms in a speech introducing the Bill in the House of Commons, to the effect tiut there was likely to be a scarcity of sugar in the market : tb.ia season m cousequeuce of the small yields estimated to be obtained from the Cuban crop. Viscouat Cross, Secretary of State for India, has dismissed Mr Arthur Crawford (who in August, 1888, was acquitted on a ciiminal charge in connection with an office held by him at Bombay) from the Indian service. Good combing wool commands prices ten per cent higher than those obtained in the February sales. Finest qualities have demanded as much as 1 J per cent higher. Up to date 173,000 bales hare been catalogued, of which 4700 were withdrawn. Brussels, April 17. General Boulanger ha& decided to remain in this city. Pabis, April 17. Three Governors of Eussian provinces have been arrested in connection with the plot against the Czar, which was frustrated by the discovery of the secret bumb factory at Zurish on 20th March.