CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 9, 5 July 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright |PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London, -fuly 3. • Arrived — Ships M. E. Watson and Morialta, from Lyttelton. The latter reports speaking the barque British Princess, from Lyttelton, with her mainmast gone. There is a panic about cholera, and it is spreading both in Spain and France. Her Majesty the Queen has "com* manded" Madame Melos to sing at "Windsor Castle on Friday. It is hoped the New Zealand Shipping Company will be able to pay a dividend of 6 per cent in September. In consequence of the gas strike Leeds it is in darkness at night. The strikers have assumed a menacing attitude. Mr Baikes, the Postmaster-General, is uncertain as to the date upon which the 2£d ocean postage rate will come into force. The following is the result of the election for Barrow: — Duncan (Badical), 1994; Wain w right (Unionist), 1862; W S. Came (Unionist), 1208. The Premier of Newfoundland has arrived in London. He asserts that the Colony is thoroughly loyal, and the fishermen are not excited, or likely to be pro yoked into acting the French, He denied that the people are arming, or that any serious trouble may be expected. He expressed his conviction that the difficulty may soon be arranged. Nine thousand visitors including the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, attended the conversazione at South Kensington in celebration of the penny postal jubilee. Congratulations were received from all parts of the world. The Mayor of Letds prepared to read the Riot Act to the strikers at Leeds. The mob fired several pistol shots, but was dispersed by the soldiers. Two thousand coal porters at Dublin have struck owing to the dismissal of a Unionist. The cargo of wheat by the barque Ladstock, from Adelaide was sold at 35s 6d. In the wool market coarse orossbreds and inferior sorts range at Id lower that at the last series of wool sales. The Western Australian Land Company's prospectus, with a capital of half a million, will be issued shortly.