Last Night's Cables.
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London, August 22. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, is invitiug tenders for lighting Sydney by electricity. The export shippers' bands threaten to join the dock laborers and stevedores (pho are out on strike.* Tho P, and 0. Company's steamer Massilia will sail with only a quarter of her usual complement of cargo. In tho House of Commons Mr W. H. Smith announced that the Government favored the proposal of setting up next' session a joint committee to consider and report on Tithes Bill. Ntw Zealand mutton is quoted at s_d per lb ; lamb, 7Jd. August 23. The tallow market is flat; best mutton 27s to 27s 6d, best beef 25s 6d. The money market is excited and speculative. In Mrs Maybrick's case Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary, holds that her attempt to poison her husband was clear, but that there was reasonable doubt whether his death was due to arsenic poisoning. Mr Justice Stephen, who heard the case, concurs in that opinion. A largo section of the press and many of tho public insist upon a free pardon being granted to Mrs Maybrick. Her Majesty the Queen is on a visit to North Wales, where she has been enthusiastically received.
On the arrival of the Emperor and Empress of Germany at Strasburg they were constantly chaered by the populace.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5612, 24 August 1889, Page 2
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