LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 138, 15 May 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

♦-. • ■ • ME GLADSTONE ON FEDERATION. HOW THE GERMAN PBESIIEE WOULD CIVILISE AFMOA.- . '-ii p. ..-'.^ .- - By Electric Telegraph,-— |)bpyr%bt II'ER i/NITKD PBESS ASSOCIATION.! " London, May 12. Mr Gladstone, in presenting the Cobden Clubldarei«'^|rr:.Pdtter; admitted thaj|preetra|ii? i^l^ni^B^mg, ;a "period of danger, and that its doctrins had lost much ground daring the past quarter of largrextent W European militarism. The American arid ; cplomal action in excluding Oninese was Protection pare and simple. It was the virtues and nqt they ices^of the Chinese that were dreaded. He beheyed that Freetrade would ,be triumphant a'hortly in America. ~ Thirteen thousand quarters of New Zealand wheat : have ' been* sold ' at 34a 6d English is Is and foreign 6d dearer. if . ' ■ > The won <the cricket match agairiatlWarwickshira ..by 132 rfanßV * Holders of Nejr Plymouth Harbour /BoJrdstdclc condemn- the Bank Und ttfe Government for non--f umlmeiat of 'obligations, and are calling a meeting to consider the matter. ■ i»i.-J«>iviJj;.:.' '■•' ■'. . .tku X' «■•■•'■' 7. If " y ri '' :; Ib the R«iohßtaf? r General Csprivi said he reviewed the colonial' pbhcy with misgivings, but retreat was now impossible. Bullets and^ bibles,/ he-*aid,' must oralis* Stdkbt, May 14. _ '■■ In^the ■ sculling' race { 'f or r ch'am'pi6nßhip of the worldi wbiob : ia rowed- to-niorroir; Kemp is favourite, f^&M'AioiufY ■:. bu^ {! Received May 15, 12.15 p.m. ■ ». . 5 ; ;. }U \Kgjg&tfii This Day. . The Federation debate was resumed in Dibtts J saia' if they w.ere to depart from their present constitution let.it.be under a flag of their own as the UtiitM Btatea of Australasia.