GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 99, 12 February 1891, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

• — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (I'KIl .U NIT ISO. PIIKSS A^OOI AVION.) London, February 9. Good wool remains firm. For inferior I merinos the prices are in the buyers' favour. Professor Anderson Stuart has sailed for Australia. Shipowners are now discharging, their own vessels. The excitement at Cardiff has not abated, and troops are being despatched to preserve order. The Shipping federation is determined | to supply men, and a blockade of the , coastal traffic is threatened in consequence. Parnell declares that the prospect of settlement of the dispute respecting the leadership of the parly is less promising. Referring to the question the Standard asserts that Parnell refuses to' abandon the leadership beyond the present Parliament. Suakim, February 10. The rebels are advancing upon Tokar. It is intended to erect fortifications to secure the town. Berlin, February 10. . • The German Government is abandoning the proposed Koch Institute. New York, February 10. The cokemeu in Pennsylvania have gone out on strike, which seriously affects ' a large number of colliers. The labour unions in Chicago threaten • to stop the erection of the building for the • world's fair if free labour is employed. Eome, February 9. ' The Pope intends to issue an encyclical letter advising the French Catholics to adhere to the republic.