CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 105, 27 February 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

- ?r' — ■» "'''• ..' • "■■: ; • . .•. By Electric v Telegraph. — Copyright JPKR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIuN. f . London. February 24. . Lord Tennyson ia again seriously iIL Lord Braasey will move, in the House of Lords on Friday, that a naval reserve should be established in Australia. The Stock Exchange 7 la hostile to the Trust Fund Investment Pill. The. Olan-na-Grael Society is denouncing violence. The Australian silver wedding gift has been presented to the Prince of 'Wales* He expressed his gratification at receiving a souvenir showing the great sympathy of the Australian colonists. In the House of Commons, Mr J. Morley, on behalf of Mr Gladstone, gave uotice of an amendment reprobating the false charges' of the .grayest and most odious dfiacriptionV based oii calumny and forgery, brought against members of the House, and regretting the suffering and loss endured by reason of such flagrant iniquities. . . ; . ■ CSir 0. B. Lewiß, M A P. for Antrim, gave notice %i\ further amendment to the effect that Messrs Dillion, O'Brien and others were parties., to a treasonable conspiracy, Messrs; Parneil,*. Q'Biden Condon, Healy and. 38 other members were guilty of a criminal conspiracy, and are in the opinion of the House, deserving of censure. . A powerful American syndicate is promoting .the construction of a railway to counect Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine with the sea coast. The meeting of shareholders in Allsopp's Brewery Company was|stormy . ' February 25. Very little of the New Zealand 3J per cent loan has been under discount.' The wool sales have closed. Merino, good scoured, is Id and inferior Id to l£d, and good greasy and inferior .greasy Id cheapttr ttan the closing- rates 4 of the December isales.o Lambs wxA cross breds are uhchanfied; / '; Seven persons were arrested at Cloncurry for resting, eviction. Serious riots occurred on the arrival of the prisoners'at New Bridge, and the police rppeatedly oharged the mob. T ( wenty persons were "more or less injured,- and it was not till the dragoons arriyed that the streets were finally cleared. ; K . " ■ ' ; PAiti8 f : Februarj 25The Duke of Orleans has 'been removed to Clarevaux- prison. • •' ':.'/■ -,• ,' A great outcry is being raiser! at the .proposal to engage Sarah Beruh-r t to represeut the Virgin Mary in tho next Passion play at Ober-Ammergan. The date of representation is fixed for the 26th of May. Nrw Yobk, February 23. Obituary— W. H. Astor, the millipniire, of heart disease. Beblin, February 24. The rearilts of the elections to date shows that 84 members of the Cartel or Ministerial party and .99 of the Centre have been returned. The others are unchanged. There will be 157 second ballots. 1 -Zanzibar, February 25. : It ia reported that a German expedition is to be sent to. re-conquer Wadelai from ■the Mahdists. Wabhinston, t?ebruary 25. The House of Eepresentatives, by a large majority, voted in favour of an Exhibition being held in Chicago in place of New York, Ottawa^ February 28. The proposal to disoountenance the use of the French language in Canada was defeated by a large majority. The quea ion was referred to the local Parliaments <>f the different provinces. - .