LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 67, 23 November 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

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(per united pkess association.) Pa ujs, N ovemb.^r 22. - The F c ich Government have been iefeated. ' • ' San Francis :o, Nov. 22. Califomian athletes will subscribe 'looo lollars if Sullivan and Peter Jackson 'will ight to a finish. • . ■ London, iNoveinbor 22 Stanley writes he had 4 days fighting ,it Lake Victoria with natives, and had to oarry his wounded 2000 miles in hammocks.

Fifteen hundred bales of New Zealand hemp have been sold at rates last quoted. The total quantity of wheat aud flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,800, 000 quatters, and ' for the Continent 488.000 quarters. The American visible supply is 28,365,000 bualiels. Tallow is advancing— Best muiton, 26s to 26s 6d. Beef in poor demand at 25.< 6d to 2u's.

Sheep and rabbit skins are advancing. Ox hides, 3d to 3fd per lb. The Dockers' Executive have issued a circular urging men to work better. The General Stoam Navigation' Company haye laid up five of their steamers owing to the action- of the dock labourers.

The quotations for frozen mutton and beef are unchanged. The steamer lonic will replace the Coptic on her next trip. • Sir John Gorst declares that the circular issued bj' Mr Thomas Johnston, Vice-Ohau-inan. of the jN ew Zealand Shipping Company, is full of mis-statements. It is anticipated that the Victorian and Queensland loan's -■will be placed On the market in January. -' '"■'.';".; Amsterdam Nor.jJb:, . A sailor' strike is lm pending- jhere and;; at Rotterdam. - . J' '■'■';■"' I Sydney, SoVembefr-22 Lord Scott has assumed cbmniand of the Australian "naval station. • • - v ■ ■ A well'«ktiown ■ jockey, named Frank Smith has been arrested" an a charge of murdering'S, jnan who was-found stabbed to death at Surrey hilla, " a suburb "of Sydney, last ,week. A man named Paxton, alleged to have been an accomplice in the crime, has also- been arrested, Beusbanb, Nov. 22. Major- General Edwards denies that he expressed the opinion attributed to him in reference to the Constitutional question of Western Australia, and says that if Responsible Government was granted to the colony at present it might create a fresh difficulty in the way of 'federation.