LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 8, 3 July 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By BlectncrTelegrapli.i-q(ipyriglit. | PER UNITED PRESS APSGCUTIOH.I 1 London. July 1. Wool is more regular, bat prices ar« unchanged. * 4|fellow— Beat beet, 24s 6d to 255; taint* ton, 25s 6d to 265. ■,- ■ Hides, 3|d to 3£d. The gas men op* on strike at Leeds d«- * feated the police, and prevented 509 blacklegs from entering the works. Many soldiers and policemen and one < magistrate were stoned and . seriously in- • jured while prelecting blacklegs at Leeds, On Junff 17th the Homeward mails; via. Brindisir had a narrow escape of being: lost in an avalanche which overwhelmed the railway line at Bussolens. The line was also washed away at Isere, and the passengers experienced much discomforts Mr Oscar Meyer, who represents NewSouth Wales, is disappointed at the small interest evinced by British exhibitors in the Mining Exhibition. ' The wife and four daughters of Mr James O'Connor, of the United Ireland, died from eating poisonous- mussels. Mr J. CV Williamson has purchased the» Australian rights in_ the comic opera. "Marjorie," and also Messrs Sims and Buehan's new drama which is to bm produced at the Adelphiin August.The Western Australian Enabling Bill has passed through Committee, and the? third reading is fixed for Thursday. Newclauses were proposed 1 preventing the interdiction of* immigration of British sub^jects, and referring to mining on private property, and the rights of foreigners engaged in pearling, but all were negatived. The Government are disposed to inoreaae the pay of the police if the excessive demands for pensions are abandoned, and the police ar» inclined to agree to this compromise. • Sydney, July 2. The barque Brunette, from Whangaroa, which was spoken off the Heads, reports that she met with very severe weather on Sunday, when the chief officer was! washed overboard and drowned. The gale wa» so terrific that it was impossible to help help him. The vessel was damaged, and her deck cargo had to be jettisoned. Buenos Ayees, July 2. The payment of a sum of ■£3,000*000' for the purchase of a railway had checked the panic in Argentine securities oec»sioned by the failure of the National Bank.