CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 105, 26 February 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright CPE It UNITI D PUKSS A*>nOCIATION-?) London". Fehrunry 23. The Law Times urges that Mr Justice Stephens should be retired on the ground ol senility and eccentricity in the Courts. The ». gents-General urge Mr Coschen to legislate for the investment of trust funds on the line-s of .the Committee's report, which forbids trustees investing in any stock yielding on the purchase moDey more than 1 per cent above the yield that would be given were the money invested in Consols. Mr Licht, the sugar expert, states that the production of beet sugar for the last five months has increased nine thousand tons. He estimates the new campaign will give a surplus of forty thousand tons. The fog has caused the wool sales to be postponed. February 24. In reply to a question in the House of Commons Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty,, stated that the Admiralty were discussing the report of the senior officer who is now on Singapore station on the cases of the commissioned officers, petty officers aud leading seamen who were concerned in the mutiny on H.M.S. Egeria while in Australian waters. Sir .Tames Fergusson, Secretary of the Foreign office, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the Egyptian troops would not advance beyond Tokar, the Sheiks having made overtures for peace. The fluctuation's of South American stocks are renewing the crisis m the city. A billiard match, spot barred, has been arranged between J. Roberts (champion) and W. J. Peall for £500 aside. The match is 24,000 up, the champion conceding 12,000 points. General Booth will reach Australia m September. LoVd Randolph Churchill is about to make a prolonged tour in Mashonaland. It ia intended to move in the House of Commons. for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the separation of Northern Queensland. "Washington, February 23. Tiie elections for the Senate of the TJn ted States give a majority adverse to the Mcßinley Tariff. The repeal of the wool duties is considered certain.