Last flight's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5444, 6 February 1889, Page 2

Last flight's Cables.

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Loxdos. February 4. Tho Right Hon. John Motley has declined to accede to tho wishes of come of his supporters who desired him to advocate the sight hours' programme. At the wool sales crossbreds continue very firm. Good merinos arc steady at last quotation?, but medium sorts are irregular. Mr Tngram, president of tho AngloAustralian Society of Artists, has collected over 300 pictures in oils and water-colors for the art exhibition to bo held shortly in Sydney. A number of etchings by Mortimer Menzies aro included in the collection.

Muttlebury, the winner of the Colquhoun sculls has been disabled by an accident, and it is improbable that ho will bo able to row again this season.

It w reported that the Very Rev. H. B. Bromby, formerly Dean of Tasmania, succeeds Dr. Saudford as Anglican Bishop of Tasmania.

At the wool sales to-day tho bidding , was spirited.

The money market is hardening and colonial stocks aro cheapening. Hemp is quoted at from £37 Us to €3" 10s.

Tho Vienna correspondent of thn Daily Chrcuiclo telegraphs that Prince Rudolph first shot a lady of the Bohemian nobility and then shot himself. It is stated that the lady's body was secrotly sent to her family. Washington, February 5. The American warship Mohican will probably bo despatched to Samoa.

Bkrlin, February -5.

Tho National Zeitung , , in tho courso of nu article on tho Samoan difficulty, asserts that all Ame:ioaii rtghts to tho harbor of Pago Pairo h.-tvo lapsed, as tho Government of the United State-* did not avail itself of th >so rights within tho specified time. It is stated that the Czar will visit Berlin in tho summer, tvad that ho will be escorted by .sixteen war vessels. Pakis, February 4. "With tho concurrence of M. do L'csscps tho tribunal h;is dissolved tho I'anuuitt Canal Company. February 5. Tho decision of tho Tribunal respecting thu dissolution of the Panama Canal Company empowers tlio liquidators to transfer the works at Pauiittin to the new company. St. Pr.TEiismnio, February 5. A scheino propounded by Count Tolstoi, Russian Minister of the Interior, for communal reform, has been rejected by tho Council of the Empire by a large majority. Sydney, February 5. Private advices have been received hero to the effect that tallow has fallen to 30s per cvvt.

A cricket matoh between tho Australia: cloven and a combined eleven of Yictorii mid New South Wales was concluded today. Tho former were victorious by -I■ runs.

Melboitknk, February 5. Sluviu has issued a challenge to fight nr tlio championship of tho world and :iOOO a-aido.

Hobart, February 5. Tho Federal Council concluded its (sitting's to-day. Under tho proposed alteration in th« constitution of the Council West Australia will bo allowed two re2>rosentativos as soou as responsible government is granted to that colony ; Tasmania is to havo four representatives, Queensland five, South Australia five, uud Victoria *ix. If New New South Wales and New Zealand join they will have nix and iivo representatives respectively.