LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 71, 3 December 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

. . — ♦ — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PKH ONITKO PRKSS ASSOCIATION) Zanzibar, December 1. i_

■ Major Wi-sman has received letters from Stanley stating that the supplies forwarded by him have been" received, and intimating that in all probability he will reach Bagarnayo on Wednesday hexs. London, December 3. Lord Salisbury ridicules the idea promulgated by Lord Bosebery in favour, of British Imperial Federation on the basis of American Federation. - - _- Bbblin. December 2. Fourteen persons have been killed and many injured by a colliery explosion at Bochumj Westphalia. Stdnky, December 2 A tremendous storm has been experienced at Grafton, on the Clarence river, New South Wales. A tonrado'struck :ha western side of the town aud immense damage was done to the buildings. .The crops in the district were cut down, houses were unroofed, and several persons are reported as injured by the falling debris. Melboobke Deceember 2 The Federal Council' will m^et at Hobart in January. There is, however, very little bu&iuess for consideration. Mr Gillies has suggestei that a conference of delegates from the various colo'iies should . meet at the same time -and place to discuss the question of Federation and the proposals of Sir Henry Parkes in connection therewith. Received November 3. noon Berlis, December 2. In the Reichstag to-day Count Herbert Bismarck, in supporting the votes on the Estimates for the maintenance of Geiroan protectorates, dwelt at length oh the benefits the army had already derived from acting in accord with Great Britain. , Referring to the Anti-Slavery Conference now sitting at Brussels, he trusted that the discussion would lead to reducing the slave trade. - ' London, Dece.nbfr 2. A letter has been received byErtiiin Bey from the Mahdist General whfn the lat- _ ter was besieging Wadeiai, which has been published. It calls on Emm to surrender and embrace the Mahdist religion promissing him high honors and protection.

Melbourne, 1 his Day. The . Government has ; decided to offer

a bonus oa the butter ©sported froro "Victoria to England. The amount' of the bonuses ranges from ld to 8a per-pound, regulated according to the price at which the article is sold in the Home market.