CABLEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5169, 14 March 1888, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

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, (Received March 11, 1.1.5 a.m. THE RESULT OF A SCANDAL. Lon'dox, March 12. Maior Barrows has been iined £400 for assaulting Lord do Waldon The affair arose out of a society scandal. COLONIAL STOCKS. Tm Colonial stocks avo inflated, Now South Wales 3.V per cents, are at 106, and -1 per cents, at'lH. Victorian 4 per cents, are at 113. ' SPEECH BY MR HENNIKER- • HELTON. Mr Henniker-Heaton. in his pnpov read at the Colonial Institute, declared that the postal loss ou a pen»-y tea route would be within £15,000. without allowing for the increase of letters if such a proposal were adopted. Ho advocated a reduction of the Continental charges to a. halfpenny. Up said that the Colonial Conference had not uttered a word of sound criticism ot ins proposals. Hα denounced the oppressive cable monopoly and advocated the purchase of the Eastern Extension Company s lines by Great Britain and the colonies and the construction of a Pacific cable, thus enabling the establishment of a shilling tariit. H.M.S. STORK. HM S Stork wiils on the 14th instant to join the Australian squadron. POSTAL QUESTION. Mr Cecil EnikoH, Postmaster-General, in reply to an enquiry, stated that a uniform postage stamp-fur Great Britain and tho colonies was not practicable. TARIFF CONFERENCE. Sir Grahnin Berry, Sir F. D. Bell, and Rir J F. Garrick leave for Brunei* on ■ Wednesday to iltte,ul the * CO,lference - N.B.W. CONTINGENT'S DECOR A-

The Btara presented by the Khedive to the Soudan contingent in recognition of their services in the late war liavo been Sipped [bj the steamer Oroya for Sydney. MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. Pakis, March 13. M. Bergen, director of the Exposition to be held hero Lext year, has V^fd 2U French exhibitors to apply ior 04,000 feet at the Melbourne Exhibition.