CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 125, 27 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright jPEft UNIT&D PBHSS ASSOCIATION. | London, April 26. The fever from which the Duke of Edinburgh is suffering is unabated, and his condition is considered critical. Her Majesty the Queen is much alarmed. The Now Zealand Midland Railway Company's debentures are at 3 per cent discount. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,860,000 quarters, and for the CouUnent, 320,000 ', the American visible supply is 27,000,000 bushels. Mr Chamberlain, in a speech at the Liberal- Umonist Conference, landed the Irish policy of the Government, which he said had been the cause of reducing crime in Ireland, At the Epson Spring Meeting the City and Surburban Handicap was won by Goldseeker with Fullerton second, aud Wiseman third. M. M. Rochefort Nacpiel and Count Dillon, accompanied Boulanger to Loudon. They were met at Charing Crossterminus by large crowds, who greeted them with mingled cheers and hisses. Boulanger does not intend to issue his C i. * „_„„«„.- „„«J ™.ll nn f UiauiLOßbu no |iioaoui.| muu tvj.u uw A*.**.***-* in England beyond October. He expresses himself satisfied with the success of his reception. „ Lord Randolph^GhurchiU had half an hour's interview .with General Boulanger at the Bristol Hotel to-day. The Shaw-Safille and Albion Company has declared a dividend of 6 per cent. The Victorian Court at the Paris Exhibition wiU be completed long before most of the other courts. The collection of ferns in the Trocadero Grounds at« tached to the Exhibition is pronounced to be one of the finest exhibits-. Vienna, April 25. The Socialists joined in the tramway riots at the beginning of the week, and drenched the soldiers with filthy liquids. The troops were with difficulty restrained trom firing on them. The committee of the town Council have decided to fine the Tramway Company 50,000 iiorins on the ground of irregularity in the traffic. The city is now quieting down. Naples, April 25. Mr Ashworth, British Vice»Consul in this city was found dead at the foot of a precipice near Vico, five miles from the Bay of Naples. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. Lord Lonsdale, who has reached the coast of Alaska on his walking tour to the Arctic regions, declares that the Alaska cataract, on the Hay River, surpasses the Niagara Falls in beauty. The river is a mile and a half wide, and the water descends the precipice over 200 feet. The Duke of Edinburgh has passed over the crisis of his illness. The Hague, April 24. King William of Holland has so far sufficiently recovered from his severe illnesß that it is expected he will resume the functions of Sovereign on the 30th instant.