LATE CABLES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5592, 1 August 1889, Page 3

LATE CABLES

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(Received August 1, 1.30 p.m.)

PARIS EXHIBITION AWARDS. Loxdon, July ;;i

Tho New Zealand minerals, exhibited by tho Government on tho Ist July, were recommended by the jury for a Grand prizo. A gold medal has been awarded the bruuner Coal Company. Silver medals havo been awarded tbo Welcome, Keep-it-Dark. Kapanga, Caledonian, Phojnix, and Antimony Companies, and to Mr Gordon, Inspector of Mines. Bronze medals have been awarded tho Waitalu. United, Alpine, Champion, Sax-m, aud Fiery Cross Companies. Honorable mention have boon uwarded William Tell Company, R. J. Thomas, Mr Morrfn. and the United Mine Company aud Professor Black. It is expected the Grand prize for wmo will go to the Government of Victoria. * SPEECH BY LORD CHURCHILL.

Lord Randolph Churchill, in a speech at Birmingham, urged that a generous concession ill the direction ot popular ocal government, and greater decentral.sat.on Should bo mado to Ireland The Chief Secretary for Ireland ought to welcome overtures from prominent Nationalists. If tho local bodies offered adequate security Great Britain ought to advance a hundred millions te pay-the landlords ?f Ireland. He promised to stand for Birmingham if requested at the uext election. BRKADSTUFFd. Tho wheat and Hour albat for the United Kingdom total 1,772,000 quarters, and for the Continent 224,000 quarters The American visible supply is 1_i,12.,,000 bushels.