GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 37, 15 September 1887, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright 3 PeEUTEE'S TELEGEAMB.7 London, September 12. Lord Brassey, in a letter to/The Times, urges that in view of the stifejbgth of the Russian fleet in the Pacific^t will be necessary to largely reinforce the Australian squadron. He suggests that several additional * ironclads* would" Tie " better than cruisers. I 1 Zanzibar has ceded a strip of her coastal territory to Germany. At the wool auction to-day »> 111^700 bales were offered. The tone of the market was steady but not active. ' i September 13. j In the Commons last night, a debate was raised by Sir-Vprnon .Harcourt on affairs in Ireland. Tn the course of his ' remarks, Harcourt declared that the . stopping of meetings was a flagrant act ' of illegality, which Englishmen would never stand. ■ Mr Gladstone took part in the debate, and concurred in the views expressed by Harcourt. In reply, the Chief Secretary for Irejland, retorted, that during Earl Spencer's term of office, no less than 130 meetings hud been stopped. The workmen on the Suez Canal are agitating for eight hours a day and a whole holiday on Saturday. A plebiscite of the workmrn will be necessary. A special enactment will be necessary, and the agitation at present is depreciated. The frozen mutton by the Iberia clear? Ed 3£d. to 3£d. per lb. The Mount Morgan Extended Gold Mining Company is announced with a capital of £1 50;00G. The North German Gazette asserts that Malietoa insulted the Emperor William and ill-treated the German residents, also that a large majority of the Samouns hare long recognised Tamasese as King. ; Mr Labouchere and Mr Dillon, who were Witnesses in the affair at Mitchelltown, insisted that the police were the aggressors. - " ■ The House of Commons sat all night discussing the amendments made in the House of Lords in the Coal Mines Eemulation Bill, and the Truck Bill. The debate at one time^ was very disorderly, and Mr Graham, 'member for Lanaar« j shire, and Mr Edward Harrington, member for West Kerry, openly defied the speaker, and were suspended from service oi the House. : Parliament will be prorogued oh Friday next. At to-day's wool sales 11,800 bales were offered. The market was steady but inactive. , • ! New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock remains at 99|. Colonial breadstuff s and tallow are without quotable change. ■ Brandy (Hennessy's and Martell's) has advanced from 16s to 16s 6d per gallon. September 14. t ho race for the St. Ledger Stakes was run to-day at Doncailer. and resulted as follows: — McKennas' Killv'arline, 1 ; Abington's Merry Hampton. 2; Manton's Timothy, 3. . '■■■-■ : At an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the, Agents»Generai asked for an equal division of postage*. Mr Gosvhen replied that the proposal was unfair to the Tr asury, since England sends most letters. V Kio de Janeiro, September 12; The Shaw-Savill steamer Doric left here yesterday (Sunday) ev.-ning for Plymouth. Her cargo of mutt m was in good condition. , " f Sofia, September 12. . A public demonstration in favou- of Prince Ferdinand took place here to day. Resolutions were passed declaring that the Prince should be assisted to the uttermost in the retention of the throne of Bulgaria. The people then assembled at the palace, /when Prince Ferdinand addressed them from the balcony, and wished lone life to Bulgaria. The mob afterwards proceeded to the residence of Karavoff and to the office of the Kussian newspaper and broke the windows of builJings. ■■■*; r ' ; K