LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 103, 18 February 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, February 16. Frozon million — Canterbury, 4 9-1 6 J ; Wellington, 4:}-d. New Zealand Hemp — Market, is active. Trices maintained. Last quotation, L 24 10s. Thirty bales I were withdrawn at auction. A curious case is being investigated. A woman bought a child, and imputed its ■ parentage to a gentleman nnmed (Joxon, who accordingly marred her. Subsequently he was killed in the hunting field. The real mother having revealed the sale of the child, Coxon's famiiy brought an action ngainst his widow to recover the fortune left to the child by Coxon. A. verdicl was returned in favour of. the family. The Hon A J. Mundella, President of the Board of Trade, replying to a deputa* tion consisting of 200 members of the House of Commons, said that if the rail way companies did not agree to the reduction in rates before Easter, legislation would be introduced to compel them to do so. He admitted that fanners were the worst sufferers, February 17. Mr Gladstone states he is willing to facilitate enquiries as to the applicability of labelling frozen meat. Berlin, February 16. . Tho Reichstag has rejected the two years' service clause in the Army Bill. Washington, February 16. The Democrats packed the Parliament House of Kansas, but were defeated by their opponents, who were armed, and broke down tho doors with sledge ham mers. The Governor of the State has ask.d that a battery of artillery be sent to assist in maintaining order.