CABLE NEWS.
By Eleclric Telegraph. — (Copyright JPER UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION, j London, May 15-
It is reported that Colonel Sargood, o' ALelbournp, will receive the honour o Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George on Her Majesty's Birthday.
The Shipping Committee have, decided on a reduction of freights by '"'2s 6d per ton all rouud, after the despatch of ves - sels at present loading. ,
The first discovery of the gold missing from the Orient Company's steamer Iberia was made on the arrival of that vessel at London. The Company assume the possibility the money was short-shipped at Sydney.
Financiers consider it unwue of New South Wales tcpledg© herself not to borrow again within a given period. They consider the present juncture the moat opportune that could possibly exist for floating a loan.
Mr W. O'Bnen intends to sue the Marquis of Salisbury for alleged libel and slander in a speech delivered by the Premier at Watford in March.
Mr W. L. Bright, M.P. for Stoke-
upon-Trent will include Now Zealand in his colonial tour.
The protest laid against Ringmaster being; awarded the stakes m the Great Northern Handicap, on the ground that the jockey was not a bona fide apprenticehas been overruled as frivolous.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 134, 18 May 1889, Page 2
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