CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 92, 27 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

. ' - -h— -* By " Electric* Te'fegftipb.-^Copyright (|>KI( VKh'Kli VHiiiiH ATION.) | . London-, Jjuvuavy 24. Professor Stuart will send a supply of lymph every fortnight to Sydney, Adelaide, and Wellington. He is writing to Sir H. Parkes, giving particulars of his interview with Dr' Koch respecting rabbit destruction", and urg'iig that action should be taken 'in the matter. He has purchased a complete sot of bacteriological apparatus for New South Wales. The latest bulletin states that Mr Bradlaugh is sinking. The severe • weather experienced throughout Europe has broken up. The Home Secretaiy was questioned with reference to the Dnke of Bedford's death, and promised to produce papers on the. subject. It is reported that Princess Victoria of Wales is betrothed to the Duke of Luxembourg. Mr Bradlaugh has given notice in the House to move the expunging of the resolution of the House of Commons forbidding affirmation "in lieu of taking an

oath. Professor Hankin, an English Bacterilogisb claims to have discovered a cure for ■anthrax in sheep. . Iv the House of Commons Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade, will move that a committee be appointed to enquire into the excessive < hours worked by railway employes, with a -view to legislating in the matter. New Zealand hemp — Auckland, failquality, L24 10s ;_ Wellington, good, £M 5s ; best Manila, L 42. Frozen mutton— Wellington, 3d 13---16ths; Canterbury lamb, 4sd. New Zealand beef— Forequarters, 3d 7-l6ths; hindquarters, 4^d. New Zealand flour, superfine, 23s 6d ; New' Zealand wheat, long-berried, 37s 9d ; for wheat on passage sellers ask 37s 3d, buyers offer 36s 9d ; oft coast, cargoes, 37s 6d ; Adelaide wheat, 395, business restricted; Victorian, 38s 6d, -business quiet. The butter market is glutted, and prices have fallen 4s per cwt. Dairy-made butter, ex s.s. Duke of Buckingham, realised 100s per cwt., and "factory-made 112s to il4s. New Zealand cheese, 54s to 55s per cwt. St. Petebsbukg, January 24 Madame Melba's Juliet, in "Borneo and Juliet," has been -an enormous success in St Petersburg. On the first night she was recalled thirty times, arid was . specially thanked by the Czar." She was made the recipient of numerous and valuable presents. A blizzard has passed over Charkov, a city of European Russia. Many isolated villages have been buried and railways blocked. Numerous deaths are reported. Bkblin, January 23. The. Minister of War has announced in the Reichstag that Germany does not intend to increase the strength of her army. A serious colliery explosion has taken place at YVestphalia. Sixty persons were killed outright, and forty others injured. Valparaiso, January 23. The gunshops in Valparaiso have been sacked by the ruob. Foreigners are safe. The insurgents have captured the town of Tarapaca. It is situated in the extreme north of the Republic and was ceded to Chili by Peru in 1883.