CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 154, 23 June 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PER UNITED PKtiSS ASSOCIATION.) London. June 20. . The Bank of England returns published to-day show the total reserves to be New Zealand long berried wheat is quiet at 42s ; 6d. Sellers of off coast cargoes are asking 42s 6d, but buyers will not give more than 425. Canterbury mutton, 4£d per lb ; "Wei-' lington, 4d ; Canterbury lamb, Sd ; beef, hindquarters, sd ; forequarters. 3£d. New Zealand hemp, good quality, J22 5s per ton. At auction sales. th« demand for kauri gum is. brisk. Fine selected transparent fetched, £9 10s ; good hard amber, £8 2s 6d ; chips, £Q 5s 6d. June 21. s In the match between Cambridge University and Sussex, finished yesterday, the former made 359 and 466 and the county 314 ' and 363. The total number of runs 1402, form a record in ' 1 first-class matches in England. Obituary— Sir- Prescotfc R. Hewitt, surgeon. _ i A new trial was refused in the breach of promise caße brought by Messrs Everly, actress, against Mr Hulbert.the ' American journalist. The case, in which extraordinary _ revelations were made, created great interest when .it was tried in April; and resulted in a verdict for defendant. The quantity of wool catalogued up to date is 191,000 bales, of which 150,000 haye been sold. Prices are unchanged. - Louis Tussaud's Exhibition has been destroyed by fire. The census returns of Scotland show the total population to be 4,033,000. The population of the City of Glasgow is 792,000. : The first section of the Manchester Ship Canal, commeoced in November 1837, was, opened to-day. ■ ; The feeling in the City is disturbed owing to Messrs Christbbal de Murrieta and Company, a South American and Spanish, firm of merchants, making an unexpected demand of £400,000 upon the Faring' s estate guarantors. - " The latter meet on Tuesday to decide whether they will accede to the demand f - , June 22. '" 1 A train conveying the Londonderry militia collided with an empty train outside Londonderry to-day. - ; The driver and stoker were killed instantsously. and many others injured. - The wool sales are . proceeding with great spirit, but prices. remain unchanged •' trench representatives are not buying so freely as before. New Yobk, June 20 An Italian has Jbeen sentenced to a year's imprisonment for bribing a juror in the recent .case <. in which a num of Sicil ians were - charged with the murder of DetectiveMlennessy. \ Constantinople, June 20. The rebels in Yeinan, a province of Asiatic Turkey, have again defeated the Turkish troops who were despatched to quell.the rising. It . is reported, that the . Govermor* General at. Yemen and his entire staff were killed in the recent fight with the rebels. " Calcutta, June 20. The Regent of Manipur has beyn sentenced to death. Received, June 23, 10.20 a.m. London, Jane 22- ' • Archbishop Walsh in the: course of an article in the National press, says he considers it is hopeless to 'expect Home Rule in the present century. At a meeting of carpenters and joiners in Hyde Park a resolution was passed demanding eight hours, and an increase of a penny per hour in wages. A monster meeting of miners was held' at Southport, the attendance numbering upwards of eighty thousand. ■ Among those who addressed the, meeting was Sir Charles Dilke. A resolution was carried demanding the recognition of the eight hours' principle by the employers. .Valpabaiso, > June 22 Insurgent spies have been detailed to watch the shipment of Balmaceda'a greenbacks from New York in the hopes the fleet - will manage to capture them. The cruiser Esmeralda destroyed the wharf and railroad at Lobos Island in order to' prevent the shipment of grain. New Yobk, June 22. Three hundred thousand Americans have signed a petition to the Czar begging him to have mercy on the Siberian political prisoners. ' • The Parnellite delegate was received with enthusiasm in this city. • - Calcutta, June 22. The Secretary of State for India has sanctioned a pension' of £300 a year to Mrs Quinton, widow of the Commissioner of Assam, who was killed at Manipur. The monsoon has burst in the Bombay district, breaking up the drought. N St. Petebsbubg, June 22. The Russian Government is rapidly in« creasing the strength of the navy, and 25 new ships are in course of construction and more have been ordered. The official censor has prohibited the circulation "of papers in Russia which publish articles on the treatment of the Jews. Bucharest, June 22. The Romanian authorities have prohibited the immigration of Jews.