Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5660, 19 October 1889, Page 2

Last Night's Cables.

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London, October 17

■ The R.M.S. Coptic has grounded in Rio harbor. The forehold is being discharged, and it is expected that the steamer will sail shortly for Plymouth. The mails will be forwarded by a Messageries Maritime* steamer. It is reported that 2000 carcasses of the Coptio's frozen mutton nave been damaged.

In the Queen's Bench Division, before Mr Justice Denman, application has been made for an injunction to restrain'the' directors of the Colonial Union Shipping Company from executing an agreement to hand over a portion of their business to the Tyser line.

New Zealand frozen mutton is quoted at 4|d, and beef at 3Jd per lb. It is intended to secure a Home Rule seat for Sir Geore Grey.

The disposal of the strike surplus han been delayed awaiting the production of the balance-sheet. As yet no proposal has been made as to how the money should be allocated.

At the end of January Mr Ingram, president of the Anglo-Australian Society of Artists, will ship for Melbourne 400 paintings to be exhibited at the society's exhibition, which opous in March. The collection comprises paintings in oil and water colors by leading artists. Sir F. Leighton, Sir J. E. Millais, Sir John Gilbert, Sir James Linton, and Mr G. V. Watt arc co-operating with Mr Ingram in securing the collection.

Mr Walker, of Victoria, denies that an actual seizure has been made by M. Joubert of the Victorian wine kiosk and wine bar at tho Exhibition. Ho states tbat the amount of M. Joubert's claim has been paid into Court rending- the Judge's decision. At the close of the Paris Exhibition Sir. Francis Dillon Bell will present to the" French museums tho mineral collection of the New Zealand Government.

The Czar and party have left Dantzic for St. Petersburg. The route along which His Majesty proceeds is guarded by 50,000 troops. :

October 18. A boxing match between Slavin and Goodu for ££00 a-side took place to-day. Tickets for adtniutdon to the tight were sold at two guineas, and boxos brought the high, price of ten guineas. The contest took place at Astley's Theatre, which was crowded. Slavin was the favorite in the betting. Goode was punished very heavily in the third round, and the spectators vainly endeavored to rush tho ring when it was .evident that Goode was beaten in the fourth routed. The fighting: was very severe, and this round decided the match, which was given in felaVin's favor. Mews Nelson JBros. Aeolfire a'dividend of iO per cent. ' Sir Vornon Haroourt, addr.-ssing a meeting at Carnarvon, expressed the opinion that the Church of Wales must Hβ mentioned that the party to which he belonged declined to disclose the details of their Home Kule scheme until they wero inured of a majority. H.M.S. Forth replaces H.M.S. Calliope on the Ausiraliap station.

The North Deutsche goitwng states that Great Britain and America concurred with Germany at the late Sauioan Conferonco that Maliotoa, and not Mataafa, .-hould bo recognised as Ivintr of Samoa, Seven hundred dock laborer* at Hamburg have gone out on strike, demanding an iif-v-reahe to per hour.' '' '''" •■ ■

Four battalions of troops at Crete have broken out in mutiny and maltreated their officers. The men had been ordered to make a road, and this they refused to do. Sydney, October 18. Mr Henry George, author of "Progress and Poverty," will pay a visit to Australia in January. He v/ill then go on a t.uir v through EuKland. and afterwards will ■Hevote the whole of his time to the campaign BH(iich. he is now organising foi the overthrow of Protection in America. Melbourne, October is. Germs which havo recently been found in the Yean Yean reservoir have conclusively proved the existence of typhoid bacteria, but samplesof the samewater tested by Professor Kutz show no trace of mieroboa. Brisbane, October 13. A man named Jonea, residing at Eidsvold shot his wife twice in the abdomen and struck her on the head with an axe. Jones then shot a man named Summers, inflioUng four wounds. Both man and woman are *a a critical condition. The act is attributed to infidelity on the part of the wife.