LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 129, 7 May 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

■• ♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [ PER UWITKD PRESS ABBOCIA.TIOX. t Receired May 7, 12.25 p.m. Stdney, This Day. New Zealand wheat is rather easier, Tuscan, 4/9. MBißotfHiFEy Tbis Day. Revenue from all ways for the JU nancial year, just ended is the largest yet earned, and exceeds three million pounds, being doable that earned niae- • years ago. A cable message from London states ; that cotton goods hare advanced five . per cent, and woollen goods advanced ten per cent. liOKDow, May 6. Farnell's evidence before the TimetParnell Commission has caused a revival of sympathy for the Times, anS the Tories are jubilant in consequence of the admissions Faraell has beeo compelled to make. The general. im» pression is that it was a great mistakein calling evidence. A syndicate » being formed^ at Dublin, with a capital of a inillioD, with the object of controlling a portion of the whisky trade. | St. PfiiEHSßirHff, May 6. " The Russian Press is assuming a very bellicose attitude in regard to the Balkan difficulty; :Nkw Yobk, May 6. Teemer declines to row Searle on the Thames. * Perth, This Day. A resolution, passed by a public : meeting, has beeo forwarded to Lord Kautsford, intimating that if Chief Justice Onslow is removed from tti» position in consequence of the dispute- . with the Governor, serious loss will result to the colony. and suefe action will affect the independence of any future occupant of the officer • • _ Pabis, May 6. President Camot yesterday marched to*. Versailles, attended by an. imposing precsssion, and inaugurated, the Fotmtain of Neptune with a memorial tablet in honor of the centenary of the Erench Bevolution, The President delivered ah oration suitable to the occasion in the Hall of MirrorsThe weather was splendid, and largecrowds took part in the: feiev l -' At the beginning of the proceedings ait . ex-soldier named Perrin. fired a blank-, cartridge at the President while he was leaving the Elysee, He was promptly arrested, and stated he merely fired his rifle in order to attract public notice to a* grievance. He alleged b& had been unjustly punished and bis wife and children; were starving. The excited crowd tried to lynch the man, but did not succeed. M. Herich, formerly chairman of th* Comptoir d'Escompte, has been arrested, and admitted to batt in one million francs. Crowds are flocking, into Paris for the opening of the Exhibition. President Carnofc, in bis speech yesterday at the unveiling of the memorial tablet, said the experience of a century would prevent France confiding her desteitids to> one man. The authorities have ordered the dosing; of a panorama at the Exhibition contain' ing a portrait of BoulangerThe English and American Courts at the Exh bition are well advanced; but a.l the others are incomplete. , Cardinal Lavigerie, who has. been preaching a cnisada in Europe against ' slavery, bos convened a- conference afe Lucerne to consider the best, means for the suppression of the evil ■•.; ' '.. . '. London, May S The Duke of Edinburgh continues to improve in health. It ia rumoured that Boulanger intend* to return to Paris and rely on the protection of his friends. Ha complains that hois boycotted in Loadon. - The ParneU femd has reached Twenty thousand pounds ha vo been paii already to Mr G. .Lewis* solicitor for the defence^ • ~ : ■'■' Sir €?, JXikvr % «- speech at^Deat* Forest, said he was confident of beinaf enabled to return to public life, and hoped his position would be strengthened by thesuflEaring he had undergone. Sywiey, May (5. Owing to the floods at Juneey a portion of the railway line was- washed away and a train was thrown oft the rails. Several carriages were- wrecked, and sir passengers injured.