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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 68, 25 November 1890, Page 2

THE LATEST.

London, November 23. The Daily News says it is unlikely that the holders of Victorian six per cent stock will allow them to be converted into three and a half per cents'.. . Earl of Derby has made a donation of £1000 to General Booth's colonising scheme.- - •...-■■•- At a public meeting in Cork the Mayor refused to permit a motion to be put expressing confidence ro Mr Parnell. Tallow, medium— Mutton; 2na 3d; do beef, 245. - ••' V | ' The English wheat market shows a. general decline, but the Continental and. American are gradually recorenng. A further rise is expected. New Zealand wheat, on passage, 36a 3d. Three months' bills have declined to 6£ per. cent owing to the reduced demand at the banks and the discount houses.; - At the auction of wooled sheepskins. : there was; an average attendance of Home' and foreign buyers. The market showed a general decline. Crossbreds, fine' greasy,, fetched 7 Jd ; merinos, 7 Jd. : . - New Yobk, November 23 .. The Irish League insinuate that Mr ; Parnell was induced to postpone the date of the conference or the Irish party, which he had convened for the 6th of October at. Dublin, with a view of avert* . rag enquiry into the disposal of the money collected in America and remitted to Ireland to alleviate the distress caused by tfie potato famine Five hundred Sioux Indians are on the warpath. Seven settlers have been massacred, . and- hundreds of others are fleeing from homesteads in great alarm. The State troops are being despatched to intercept the Indians. ? Keceiyed November 25, 10.20 a.m. London, November 24. Sir F. Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, proposes that the AgentsGeneral for the various Australian Colonies should join in commissioning an eminent physician to study .the methods of Dr Koch's cure for consumption and obtain a quantity of the lymph for use in the Australian Colonies. The survivors of H.M.S. Serpent, which was wrecked off the coast of Spam, have reached Plymouth. They state that a difference of opinion existed among the officers aa to the course the vessel should be steered and this led to the disaster. The vessel broke in two shortly after she struck the rocks. The survivors complain that there was great scarcity of life belts on board, or otherwise the loss of life would not have been so great. The Hague, November 24. Sing "William 111 of Holland is dead.