CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 20 May 1892, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Soubh Australian sbockowners are agitating for a retaliatory stock • tax againsb Victoria.

The British expedition haß stormed bwo towns near Jobuz.

Information has been received thab the British troops fired on the town of Jobuz, killing eight allies. Two leading Anarchisbs in bhe city of Brussels have been sentenced bo three and four years respecbively. The New Zealand athletic beam will probably compete at bhe international meeting in Paris in July.

When tho English team had scored 214 the innings was declared closed. The additional scores wero : Dixon, 69 ; Forris, 3 ; Flowers, 30, not oub. In bhe second innings Sheffield's Eleven had losb two wickebs for 117, Grace 63, and the match was declared drawn.

Mr Samuel Monbagu, M.P. for Whibechapel, will move ab the Conference of bhe Chambers of Commerce a resolution favouring the decimal system of coinage. The Agents-General of bhe British colonies have been invibed to become vice-presidenbs of bhe Congress.

The French havo capbured a pirate stronghold in Tonquin, bub bhe attack cost bhem 180 men, including five officers.

A curate named 801 l has been arrested on separate charges of assault on two young ladies in a railway carriage on the line near Hungorford. ™

A proposal againsb plural voting waa defeated in the House of Commons by a majority of 57.

In the division on the motion bo abolish the dual vote, tbe Liberals voted solid as a party with the ayes. The Tories demand redistribution on the basis of equal value vote.