CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 11, 10 July 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright |PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. ( London, July 7Miss Amy Sherwin gave her first concert in the presence of the Princess of Wales and a brilliant patronage. The concert was a great success. The Postmaster-General has given notice that if any of the postmen are oif duty at 5 o'clock to-morrow they are to be instantly dismissed. Five thousand quarters of Tsew Zealand wheat have been sold at 34s 6d, and 8000 quarters of Adelaide at 365. At the wool sales prices were steady. Merinos are firmer. Wheat is a shilling dearer on the week. New Zealand oats, 26a. July 8. Two thousand postmen have resolved to postpone the threatened strike in consequence of the London Trades Council having offered them assistance within 12 days. It was the Grenadiers who mutinied and not the Coldstream Guards. Three hundred and fifty are confined to barracks; the remainder are performing regular guard duty. There has been considerable disaffection existing in the battalion since Colonel Maitland was appointed, he being a strict disciplinarian.; A coal famine is being experienced in Dublin owing to the strike of the porters. The body of a girl, twelve years of age, has been discovered violated and mutilated much in the same style as the former victims attributed to Jack the Ripper, The A gen ts- General have returned from Brussels, the International Tariff Convention having closed. The terms of the Convention make Victoria and, New. South Wales each responsible for 3106 francs annually, New Zealand for 2485, and Western Australia and Tasmania 621 each. '■'■ Panama, July 7. The Government of the Republic of Columbia has agreed to the request of the liquidators of the Panama Canal Company to extend the time, as the liquidators belieye the necessary capital to continue operations may be obtained on an international basis. Sofia, July 7. Owing to the menacing attitude of the friends of the late Major Panitza, M. Stambouloff has left this city, St. Petebsbubg, July 7. Colonel Martinovio, cousin of the Grand Duke Nicholas and commander of hi' body guard, has been killed at Cettinje, in the market place. The deed is attributed to private vengeance, and the people have lynched his murderer. Washington, July 8. The Silver Conference has agreed to four and a- half million ounces of silver being pnrchased monthly. Pekdst, July 8. The Chinese Government are thinking of borrowing thirty million taels in American silver for the purpose of constructing a railway to Manchuria, an extensive region situated on the north-eastern portion of the Empire.