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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 310, 22 February 1888, Page 2

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Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. United Press Association. Received Feb 22, 8.20 p.m. Plymouth, Fob 21. A-wived to-day, the N.Z. Shipping Company’s P.M.S. Ivaikoura, 0 'om New Zealand, a ll wo 1 1 Her cargo of frozen meat is in good cond'tion. London. Feb 21. At the wool sales to-day 13,000 bales wore offered. Extra line washed is lower, but other sorts are unchanged. Lord Win thy, Secretary for the Colonies, has been pressed bv Sir Q, B. Mitchell, lately Governor of

Fiji, to accelerate tire return of tlio j Wesleyans to. Tonga, as it is hoped . that tiio opnresssQii to which they-j wore recently subjected has ceased, j Most of tho A gents-General ha vo j accepted tho inviiatiou to bo pr - j sent; at the National Gonioronee j Which is to bo iieid at Brussel's j next m until. ! K.Z. inscribed stock £99 j. 1 Consols 102 A. Bugnr steady. German 11,3 3d, Java 12s 3d; UaTian ea-ppor £79 10s; Australian : tin £lO r 10s. j IL.xgoox, Fob 20. j Tho 'D.tcoits arc again trouble-' some and are menacing tho city of; Are. A number of outrages have • been committed by them hi tho ; vicinity of that town. He it rax, Fed) 21. j Prince 'Bismarck Iris dissuaded j the Emperor from visiting the j Crown Prince on account of ins | feeble health. Bnisn.vxic, Fob 22. Tho schooner Golden Isle, for- ; meiiy a New Zealand trader, has j been wrecked during tho hurricane at Sconago Bay. j An.tL.viDE, Fob 22. i J Clark, paymaster of Imperial ; pensions for South Australia, on a ’ charge of embezzling monies be- j longing to pensioners, was son- j fenced to 1 year and U months’ im- i prisonniout. Tho accused had been j in tho civil service for 2G years, j and pleaded that he had been om- j ployed at starvation wages. :

Received Feb. 23, l.go a.m. Loxdoh. Fob 21

Sir F. DF’on Bell lias arranged for the Ageuts-Gcneral of the various colonies to meet M. 'Waddington, French Ambassador, on March 23rd. The object of tho meeting is chiefly to discuss the (question of Colonial rem-esentation at tho Paris exposition next year.