LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 1, 17 June 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, Jane 16. News from the Zambesi shows that the boycotting of the English at Quilinane still continues. A meeting; was held, the Governor presiding, at which several anti-English measures were agreed to. The English wheat market shoWs a general decline, the Continental is dull, and the American is also declining, New Zealand wheat on passage, 34s 6d. At tbe present time 200,000 carcases of New Zealand mutton are stored in London. The Morning Post expresses surprise at Kirk ham being entered for the Ascot Gold Vase, and regrets the collapse of Mr White's plucky venturX Brussels, June 16. The Independence Beige states tliafc Stanley has accepted the Governorship of the Congo Free State. Vienna, June 16" The Austrian Government is doing" its best to "minimise the effect of the Minister of War's statement that tbe peace of Europe is insecure. The extra money voted will be spread over several years, and the army increased by 50,000 men annually. Beelin, June 15. General von Caprivi will' accompany the Emperor on his visit to the Czar, Fabis, June 15. The grand prize of Paris, tbe great French three-year-old race, was. run to-day, with the following result: Mons. H. Say's b o Fitz-Eoya, 1 ; Mr F. Scheibler's b c Fitz-Hamptonv 2 ; Mr R. Peck's b c Oddfellow, 3. Sydney, June 16. The conference of the marine officers and steamship owners will be held on June 25. From the relations at present existing/ there appears every probability of an amicable arrangement.

Received June 17, 12.30 p.m. Tbkih (W.A.), This Day, Capt. Smith, of H.M.S, Media, has been fined £100 for burning the huts of Indians at Roebuck Bay. Thelatter had a dispute with the aborig- ; inals over land, and as they refused to leave Captain Smith gave orders for them to be burnt out. MxLBOUBjre, This i>ay. His Excellency the Governor presided at a meeting in aid of the sur--1 vivors of the Light Brigade. -A. ! committee was formed to establish a fund and co-operate with the Balaclava Committee in London. Brisbane, This Day. A fund has been started in aid of I the Balaclava survivors.