LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 102, 20 February 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LPSB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.} London, February 18. Tbe Universal Mining Exhibition will be held at Sydenham in the summer. Her Majesty the Queen is arranging to - witness the production of an* opera of tbe late Carl Rosa. Mr Twohey, the London reporter of Freeman's Journal, has been fined Ll 00 and costs for commenting on Captain^ O'Shea's divorce case. Viscount Deerhurst has been adjudicated a bankrupt, A deputation from ther Miners' Associa- - tion waited on Mr Gladstone, Lord Randolph Churchill, and Earl Duuraven.re^ * latiye to the Eight Hours Bill now before „ Parliament. Replying/ Mr Gladstone < - said he would reserve his judgment forthe present. * Lord Churchill, without . committing himself expressed sympathy with the movement. Lord Dunrayea. said the movement would receive his support. The best quality of a shipment of butter by the Austral been sold at lH5s. Factory butter of uniform qnality brought the highest price. In the course of his speech at the annual meeting of thtf Royal Colonial Institute, Sir John Ooloinb, referring to the*investment of trust funds in colonial, > stocks, deprecated England increasing her liability without there being some reciprocity in the matter. Sir Saul Sam-, uel, replying, showed that by permitting? such investments England would benefit at least as muoh as the colonies. Referring to the Colonial Divorce Bills - Earl Derby thought it would be unwise - to veto them, and be said veto ought to fall quietly into disuse. Both Earl Derby and Mr J. A« Froude believe that the Victorian Divorce Bill will ; be. as-. \ sented to quietly without forming religious opposition. The gas strike cost the Metropolitan . Gas Company L 75.000. Mr Parnell asked Mr W. H. Smith again, to-day what action the Governmentintended to take on the report of thaiCommission. The Government- leader promised to invite the House to- accord its-' thanks to the Commission. The entry of, the report in the' Journals ofthe House was ironically cheered. Thei Oppositionprofess indignation at tbe. behaviour ofthe* Government, Sir C. Dilke in a letter on tbe stibject,, asserts that Sir EL Farkes is the greatestfigure in the Empire after Mr Gladstone-' and Sir John Macdonald of Canada. The Morning: Post thinks Soutb Australia will become the wheat country of the future, ' ■A ,f A- ' Mr Bradlaugh has been appointed mem-' ber pf a Committee to report on the- ■ Western Australian Bill. MrW. O'Briißn denies that the Irish- '-■. party aim at separation. No clue, has been found to the West Ham murder. February 18* , In the House of Commons ' to-a&y, Mr ~. Balfour stated at present there were only 40 persons in gaol -imder. the Crimes Act, As to boycotting, the number of personshad decreased from 4900 to 1500. The- amendment to the Address-in- ** Reply was negatived by 307 to- 240; • -Sydney, February 19. Sailed— R.M. S.Alameda, for Auckland, The following cricketers have been.selected to visit England to represent' Australia : — Murdoch, Ferris, Charlton r ; Turner, Bonnor, Blackharu, Lyons, Jones,. Gregory, Trott, Barrett, and Deane, with either Garrett or Trumble, - Pretoria, February 18. President Kruger fears that owing to the large number of newcomers the Be- . public of Transvaal will be secured by Great Britain in a few years. Reoeived February 20, 12.30 p.m. London, February 19 . Mr Gladstone, replying to a deputations from the.Miners Federation, thought eight hours were a reasonable period for underground labour, but that the public would be opposed to "a general limitation of: workmen's hours. He doubted the-pblioy;. of invoking the assistance of Parliament. Betting is 2 to 1 on Oxford for the University boat race. The National Liberal Federation con- : gratulates the Parnellites on the triumphant yindication of their honor. Obituary— Joseph Biggar, M.P. for '-- Cavan. Washington, February 19. The Senate of the U.S. ratified th* Anglo-American extradition treaty. It is proposed to pit Corbett againsfcJackson in a boxing match. ' Berlin, JFebruary -19. ltis intended to ask the Reichstag to spend thirteen million marks on workmen's dwellings, Paris, February 19. Comte de Paris approves, the' Duke of Orleans act. This announcement delays the pardon which it was expected the- ,'L young nobleman would receive. x . Sydney, This Day. Reports to hand show that the ywtifeSA in the districts between Corowp- and the; .... - Upper Murray *will be little better than A in the previous; years. Some wheat re-' turns are most disappointing. Crops esti-* mated to produce fifteen to twenty bußhels--per acre only return half that, quantity,, and the quality of the grain is stated by . millers to be inferior. * Brisbane, This Day. What are known as " The Hopeful Prisoners," who were sentenced in 188# - to terms of imprisonment ranging from life to seven years, for kidnapping- and murdering natives in the South Sea Islands, have been released. Hobaet.TMs Day. The Ruapehu arrived at 6 o'clock last night. Slae sailed at noon to-day for New Zealand, and brings 85 passengers for Australia. _____