CABLEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 202, 30 August 1887, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

(iV ELECTRIC TELEGRAFH—COPTEIGHT.)

THE SUGAR WAR,

FRANCE ADHERES TO BOUN-

TIES,

A SWEET " CORNER " IN GER-

MANY.

(special to association.)

London, August 29.

The French beet-root sugar manufacturers are strenuously opposing any proposition to repeal the sugar bounties, believing that the effect of doing so would be to benefit the German manufacturers and . extinguish the French trade.

A Magdeburg syndicate have, it is reported, purchased the whole of the sugar warehouse in Germany" during the month of June, and have raised the price to 17s Gd per cwt. As the result of these tactics, the price of sugar is still advancing in Germany ; but Herr Czarnikow, an authority on the subject declares that the actual value of the article is only 12s Gd per cwt.

(EECTER'S TELEGFwAM.)

QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

Brisbane, August 29.

It is announced that Mr Dutton, Minister of Public Lands, has been appointed Minister of Public Works and Mines, rendered vacant by the death of Mr Miles. It is at present uncertain whether . the Colonial Treasurership, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr Dickson, will be filled. Political parties are bestirring themselves for the forthcoming election, and the contests are likely to be keen.