LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 101, 18 February 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

— — ♦ By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. LP^B UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, February 16. The English wheat market is steady, the Continental is dull, and the American declining. • New Zealand wheat, on passage, averages 33s 6d ; New Zealand flour, 245. Up to date 196,800 bales have been catalogued for the present series of wool auctions, of whioh 168,400 have been sold. Tallow — Medium mutton, 235; do beef, 225. ' 7 Frozen mutton is unchanged, while New Zealand beef has risen 3d per stone. ■■ ■ ■* Berlin. February 17. A rescript of the Emperor William enjoins the officers of the army to refrain from illusirig the soldiers. '■'•'"" Paris, February 17. Five invalided supporters of General Boulanger, have been re-elected for Paris, constituencies. . Madame Melba (Mrs Armstrong), the Australian cantatrice, has scored a brilliant success at Monte Carlo in Gounod's " Romeo et Juliette." Sydney, February 17. A general strike of journeymen bakers is threatened on the question of the employment of non-union men. A heavy rainfall has been experi- j enced throughout the Colony, and j here, alone four and a half inches have been registered since yesterday. Information receiyed from Broken Hill states that a house occupied by a family named Caution was destroyed by fire and three of the children burnt to death. '

Receiyed February 18, noon. London. December 17. It is understood Mr Gladstone is prepared to support a Bill to be introduced by Mr Campbell -Bannerman, to enable Catholics to hold the. offices of Lord Chancellor and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Standard states the money market has been over mortgaged to financial companies, but believes a panic will be averted if it keeps quiet as the worst of the crisis is past. V Atkins and Co., Australian merchants, St. Helen's Place, are bankrupt. Labilities are £80,000, while the assets.aro about the same. Constantinople, February 17. The intention of trying Moussa Bey, charged with the commission of atrocities in Armenia, afresh, has been abandoned.