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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 February 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright* LPHE ONlTBi> fBESS ASSOCIATION.] Los dox, February 13. Wool is unchanged. Two thousand sheepskins were e&l<?< Merinos were £d and crossbreds Jd below* last auctions.- . ■ ' ■ ■ News has been received thai; the British cruiser Conquest -has gone ashore on the Island of Pi in boa, off the coast of Zanzibar. . . It is rumoured that a: ring has been formed to corner the hematite market and close the furnaces till the stocks 6a hand are used. • The Western Australian Bill was read a first time to-day. The Committee will '. examine thet Agents-General with regard**' to the disposal of Crown Lands and the" question of emigration. Members of the Farnell party intend to 1 w move for a committee to* investigate the publication of the forged letters- by the Times, The time within which the gold coins issued previous to Queen > Victorian - ascending the throne must be withdrawn from circulation, has been extended to March 31st. Such coins will now be takes at full value, but if not handed in by that date will only be paid for on the value of the' gold. Ottawa, February IS. An excited debate has. taken place in the Dominion Parliament. A number of the? members declared that the Protestants? would arm to expel the French from Canada. Sir j. Macdonald denounced- the' attempt to arouse hatred. ■ .