Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5694, 29 November 1889, Page 2

Last Night's Cables.

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!•■•.- London, November 2^ . It is considered probable that the departmental committee established by Mr. Goschen will, reepmmend trueteee being allowed to invest in colonial securities when the stock has averaged 105 for six months prior to tho investment being , made. , AbiUdraftedby SirF r B.Bell w3l be in troduced into the Imperial Parliament next session dealing with unclaimed stock dividends. .-...■ , : ■■

.-. Foreigners resident in the colonies having , made complaints to the Colonial' Offiqe of— thedifficulty of securingoomplate naturalisation for the whole of Australia, the Home authorities express themselves in. favor amending the naturalisation laws so 'aa to fall in with the views of the persona %,'om* plaining. <:- r r ... ~v . l Australian copper v quoted 'at jH^D. , ." '/*'■ At the wool sales o<pening prices were fully maintained, and i n some instances exceeded. There was .exciting competition, the foreign buyers* taking the bulk of the new clip., .. , ~-. .-.,/„ The wharfingers have odnoededtaeaemand of the laborers fdr'payme.nt for the dinner hour. . ~-r,-. ~-■ vs. v ' NoTomlieir 28. ; . The barque Elnar, oi 46o t tdne," > whiph. left Sydney for. Callao April £iid the fihip County of C, arna'rvon, Newcastle for, Valparaiso on June" been posted at LloydV as missing;. ', > v At a conference at Newport of delegates representing 300,000 miner* resblutjojis'in favor of eight hours as a day's Work were oarried by a large majority." "' - ' "'"' ■It is understood that next session the Government will introduce a bill restricting the importation of cheap labor fronx foreign countries into Great Britain. ," '/ .if,'.,*,;Information has reaohed San Prancis&> that a large lunatio asylum at Blackmouth, a town in Idaho Territory," jKaJsjjewi destroyed by fire, and that eight of the unfortuoate patients perished in thefiaaieg*"' All the miners entombed by .'the. aubsjI donee of amine at Recklinghausen, Germany, havebeehrescuedalive.' :',.',£ ..,-./ Mkibotjenb, November *2&f' r Referring te the Now Zealand EihibiJMjp the Argus in an article this morning eta'to _, that it is justified in regarding the history of the Dunedin Exhibition as the history of a marvellous: revival of the trade and industry of New Zealand. , It goes on to say. that the colony.has.iso}vea,the .great colonial problem by the simple disooverj , that there is no rpyal party tpj permanent prosperity, but that the road must be out out by labor and ekill. •'For, this reasonj" the Argus adds,' "the : greater and more ' sincere should. be the congratulations of Australia." In conclusion, , it hopes that the Exhibition will be a suooeso, and serre as an index to permanent ■ • At the wool sales to-day the New Zealand 1 Loan and Mercantile Agency Company/ offered 6426 bales, of which 5000 bales were '

wold. There was a large ettendauce/.of buyers and competition was animated. Late rates were fully maintained, no further advice having been received of the ris* recently reported from London, which ha* already been fully discounted. The highesfc prices obtained were for greasy merino 13$ d, greasy '-lambs 5 ' greasy pieces 13d, greasy crossbreds scoured crossbreds 20-Jd,' eooured pieces - *'■ ? < '•■