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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 130, 26 April 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

% Electric Trfegraph —GbpyrigkifL {EBB. tf\K!El> M.EBB ASSOCIATION). .London, April 25 Quotation* fox frozen, mutton and beef are unchanged. A few carcase* of lamb by the lonic were condemned, and mitay of the carcases of mutton were spotted:— same badly — while a, few were condemaed. Sir F. Billen Bell will attend the/ Telegraph Conference at Paris, and advocate the- cheapening of the cable* tariff. Owing to- the- tog,, the wool sales have been postponed. m In replying to a* question in theHouse of Commons, Mr Gosohen said . the Mint wa» designing a new head for sovereigns. Sir .Pamela Fergusson^ under Secretary for Foreign- affaire, ,'; stated in the House of Commons to«dsy that Franoepossessed no treaty right to erect lobster factories in Newfoundland. In his evidence-before- the; Colonisation Committee to»day> Sir bauJL Samuel said New South Wales* would not assist or sanction any emigration* scheme unless she had the seleotioa and control of the emigrants. Sir Arthur Blythe, Agent-General for South Australia, thought » company conducting a large emigration scheme? might succeed. , , In the House of Commons, MrGladstone, in a speech oa the Irish Land Purchase Billy said the benefits to be derived from it were confined tolandlords. Tenants objected to the* State placing an. embargo on. local funds in Ireland without Irish con* sent. The people of Ireland were* evidently opposed to the measure,, and State Landlordism* was a greateconomical danger. He thought Parliament should be precluded from pledging British credit for the purchase of Irish lands. In replying to* Mr ( Gladstone, Mr Gosohen said the generous soheme propounded by Mr Parnell was not hostile to the Government, but contained a duel ownership. He thought the two- schemes* might be tried together if the British taxpayer was amply protected. Hesaid he had already established State* I landlordism in Ireland. [ Washinoton, April 26. i The Republicans in Congress reoommend the Treasury to purchasefour and a half million ounces of silver monthly, payable in notes to beredeemable on demand. N bw Yobs, April Sf. N During the procedure of his trial for libel to-day O'Donovan Bossa declared that anything was justifiableto secure relief from the British yoke. Serious floods have been experienced in Louisiana. Chicago, April 24. Woodruffe, the waggoner who confessed: to complicity in the niurder of 2>r Gronin,. and implicated Alexander Sullivan, head, of the National League* in America, who,, he allege i, shadowed the murdered man* has been discharged from custody. He* has made a confession that the' allegations, against Sullivan were without foundation-

Received April 26, 12*15 p.m. London. April 25. The ship Winefred, which left Wellington for London on January 14. and had to put into" Bahia, on the Brazilian coasts in order to extinguish a fire in her hold* has had the neqessary repairs, effected and]. , her voyage has been resumed. 416 bales of wool and flax, were damaged. The : wool, which was condemned^wiU, in- deference to" the strong protests which haver been raised,: be forwarded on. here by. the first opportunity that offers. 886 bales of flax were condemned; and will be- sold tftfc Bahia. . A large prepayment of the Victorian, Loan has hardened the money markets New Zealand, good hemp to znediumi quaHty k quoted at £22: 15 a to £28. ' Bar silver haa advanced, to. 8s lid per •; ounce. ■ ■'.' -'..• :.. ;' ., . .','.. i .y. : '.-',,.^; Informatiott has been, received here to< the effect that the Governor of the Bahama Islands has set apart 150,000 acres, of land in these Islands for the coltiva-^ tion. of sisal- fibre--