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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 139, 16 May 1891, Page 2

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (I'BR UNITE!) PRESS A9&OCIATION.) London, May 12. Three hundred cases of apples by the Vlatnari realised from 10s to 16s. The English wheat market hus a down ward tendency, and the Continental is a In tie worse. The American market is, •leady. Forward biasness m Australia ian shipments is weiik at a decline. Ar-i-ifdlij of foreign shipments are moderate. Tin.' re are no Australasian cargoes ofi coii^t or iv ports of call. Union Steamship Company's shares sire quoted at £12 H..R.A. Prsnce of Wales has a slight /if.ack of influenz.t. May 13. The motion in the House of Commons for the expulsion ••£ Captain Verney. was ailopted niihml .iebate, and when the Speaker declared it carried there was profound sileuce. A prominent Parnelhte has joined the ranks of the McCarthy party. In ibe Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice fco-daj, Justice SirJ. W. ■ hilly granfel an order for the cotupuisi>iy winding up <f the Hansard Publishing Union, an:i preventing the Uniou from further working on borrowed capital. The Australian torpedo gunhoat Earrakatta has completed a' lo bays' cruise, which was a thorough snecess. The cruiser Wallaroo sails for Sydney on thY 18th issl. Pbkin, May 14 The Chinrse have ser fire to the 'Jatliolic mission station at Wu-hu, a river port in the province of iNttgan-iioei. All Europeans fled from the place and took refuge on ike hulks in the river Yang-tze-Kiang. H M.S. Inconstant has gone to the scene of the outrage to rescue the re fugees. JPabis, JVlay 13. A separation of property between Madame and General Boulanger has bee?) granted. CaliCUTta. May 13 A severe earthquake has been experienced in Ceylon, but no particulars &s to the damage are yet to hand. A remukab'e revival has taken p ace in ihe wheat trade. Forty thousand tons ire awaiting shipment here.