CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 89, 17 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Te'egraph.— Copyright (PBIt UNITED I'ItKSS A^aOCI ATIOV.) LOn do n'. Ja n u a ry 1 4 . Fitzgerald, the Australian labour de legute lecturing in London, said that Australia was drifting from British liv* pcrialism and drawing nearer British de mocracy. The colonies would not lon-.; submit to be the dumping ground for the rubbish of the old world. Shippers iutend to approach Mr Stan hope again respecting the admission of frozen meat into the army contracts , Shareholders in the Bank of NewZea land have agreed to the changes suggested by the Directors in the deed of settlement, excepting the substitution of an annual meeting for the two half yearly meetiugs. The total quantity of wheat aad -flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,968,---000 quarters, and the Continent 672,000 quarters. Tallow— Best mutton, 27s to 27s 6d ; best beef, 25s 6d to 265. The money market is inactive, owing to the fiill supply of gold. Three months' bills are discounted ot 2f per cent. The Duke of Bedford is dead. General Booth says the Australian colonies hare formed erroneous ideas as to the scope and details of his scbenie. He intends to send out qualified mechanics, and not necessarily unskilled labour era. He proposes to visit Australia h'm« self in September to work up support for his proposals. He states that he feels certain he will be able to destroy the prejudices formed against them, and that he entertains more respect both for hi 9 own reputation and for the colonials than to foist the riff raff of England on them - January 15. General Booth, who has announced his intention of visiting Australia in September, will take out 1000 mechanics I with him. The report of the liquidators in Baring's estate shows that there is a substantial surplus. A cargo of wheat per barque Helen Denny from" Lyttelton has been sold at 37s 9d M elver Bros., of. the Cunard line, Liverpool, despatch the first steamer of the new Imperial Australian line in the autumn. Six steamers of about six thousand tons each will be engaged in the running. Chili, January 15. Reinforcements have been sent from Chili to Valparaiso as it is feared that an outbreak is imminent. • Paris, January 14. There is a surplus from the Paris Ex* hibition of £400,000. , The Reichstag is discussing amoiim for the abolition of import duties on corn and cattle. Beblik, January 14. The Empress accompanies her. has* band on his visit to England.