LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 118, 25 March 1893, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright PUB PBE3S ASSOCIATION). London, March 23. The Princess of Wales and the Duke of York, who are on a tour on the continent, paid a visit to his Holiness the Pope at Borne, and were received with great ceremony. The Associated Chambers of Com* tnerce liavo passed a resolution in favor of bills of lading being framed on the same lines as bills of exchange. Oxford University ha* conferred on Bishop Julius, of Chnstchurch, New Zealand, an honorary doctorship of divinity. The frozen meat ex Tekoa and Arawa i from New Zealand is in fair demand. 1 The American visible supply of wheat is 105 million bushels. Australian factory made butter is quoted from 90s to 96s per cwt. A few fancy parcels realised over 100s. March 21, Obituary— The Duke of Bedford. The cotton operatives have submitted to a reduction of 7d in (he £, and resume work on Monday. The London Corporation has subscribed £]00 lo the Queensland Belief Fund. At the L verpool Spring meeting to»day (ho Grand National Steeplechase was won by Cloister. Paris, March 21-, M.M. Biondin and De Lesseps have appealed against the ycutence passed upon them. There is a crisis in the Cabinet, and M. Hubbard has moved that theCbambcr dissolve. Baron Molmnheim, the Russian Am bassador, threatens to resign from embassy if M. liibot does not disclose the identity of 'Monsieur X,' the unknown recipient of a large number of the Panama Canal Company cheques. Ottawa, March 23. The House of Commons has passed a resolution calling upon Sir A. P. Caron, Postmaster»General to resign. He is ac eused of unduly exerting his influence in connection with a railway subsidy. Rome, March 23. Queen Victoria has arrived at Florence, after a pleasant journry, all well Berlin, March 23. The Committee of the Reichstag has reported that Herr Ahlwardt failed to prove his slatctnents that members were plundering the Soldiers' Pension Fund, mid Ahlwardt has been threatened with expulsion unless he withdraws his charges.