CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 39, 16 September 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PER UNITED PKKSS ASSOCIATION*) * Behnk, September 12. Twelve of the Liberal leaders disguised as commerical travellers captured -the arsenal at Ticino, while an armed mob seized the palace of the Governor. The Ltberal«' comiluint is that the Ultramontanes govern the Canton though in* a minority. ■• - The rising has collapsed, and the troops were welcomed by the populace. Thursday Island, Sept. 13. The blacks attacked a camp of four white men at Batavia, on the western side of Cape York Peninsula, and killed three, the fourth escaping. I Great anxiety exists among the whites, as it is feared that the blacks, emboldened by the success of the past murders, will attack the telegraph stations. London, September 13, Tyser and Co. annunnce that one of their line of steamers will leave for the colonies every twenty -one da; a. The Maori King and Star of England are advertised to take cargo at the same rate ■ as sailing ships, and on their way to Neir Zealand will call at Brisbane. ~ Lady Galloway, and a j»ister of the Marquis of Sal is bury, accompany the Earl and Countess of Jersey to Sydney. Sir Saul Samuel, Lard Wolselej, and Mr Howard Vincent to-day inspected the Hanson magazine rifle at Sheffield. The weapon, which has recently been adopted by the Kg; of the Belgians, is claimed to.be superior to the English magazine rifles, and Lord Wolseley ex pressed himsel> highly pleased with it. > Alden Carter Weston, who was convicted of forging a cheque purporting to be signed by Is i dor Emahuel Werthemir for £300, and which also bore the iorged name of Lady Dunlo, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. JNew Zealand 4 per cent mscribetl stocks, 106 f; 3£ per cent 96|. Adelaide wheat is flat at 38s 3d, Victorian weaker at 37s 6d, New Zealand, long berried, also weaker at 375. It is expected that a South Australian loan amounting to two million and a half will shortly be placed on the market. : Owing to the unfavourable report of the crop yield issued by the Agricultural* buieiu, the American wheat market has advanced, and the English market and Continental is firmer despite the fine weather. - The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) h#ve received the following cable message from London, dated 12th inst. .—'Tallow — Market strong. The Continental demand hac increased. Good mutt>n it worth 27s 3d per cwt. - Frozen meat — There is rather better demand. Prime .New Zealand, iambs are worth, per carcase, 4J perib. New Zealand beef, fore quarters, worth 2f per lb. Other quotations unchanged since last telegram." *• September 14. Hurst won the cricket match against the Australians by 84 rims.