Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5705, 12 December 1889, Page 3

Last Night's Cables.

\P_S PBKSS ASSOCIATION.— COPYBIOHT.J

London, December 10. ""* The fixtures for the tour of the noxt AustraUan cricket team have beeu approved. ££* play All England three times ; Kent ___cv Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Gbucestershire, twice; and North of Sand, South of England, Lancashire Ma.ylebone, Cambridge University, and Oxford University, once. They open at Sheffield Park on May Stli, and will probably finish at Hastings on September I 'a section of the press strongly condemn the disclosures made by Mr. G. Buckley at the annual meeting of the Bank of New Zealand. Shares have fallen £2. . Tn tho course of bis lecture this evening o_ the mutual duties of England and Australia with regard to defence, the Earl nf Carnorvon eulogised the unstinted liber°«_L of the Victorian defences, aud urged the amalgamation of the local forces. He thought the Australian colonies ought to ' Wr the chief cost of fortifying King GeorKe's Sound and Thursday Island. In concluding, he praised the reasonable compromise arranged between tho Premiers of Sew South Wales and Victoria with regard to federation. Sir Andrew Clarke, who followed, considered that Victoria had been too lavish on her laud defences, and he blamed Major-General Edwards for not insisting on the navy being the prime defence ° f Madame Melba's Lucia at Paris, was a brilliant success, and she was repeatedly called before tht curtain. v December 11. The shipbuilders of the Clyde have received orders for the construction of four w7 steamers to be engaged m the i German-Australian trade. A The metropolitan gas companies nave 'canned 2000 men to take tbe place oi te on strike, and as the latter are d.sSaving a menacing attitude a large number of police have been told off to nrotpct the araSworkß. V Obituary-Mr J. Mac Donald, manager of The Times, whose name has been brought into such prominence in connection with the " ParneUism and Crime" articles. Mi Robert Browning, poet and dramatist, is in a very critical state of health. The Daily News and the Sportsman, i» referring to the death of Searle, state that he was the best oarsman who ever sat in a Sydney, December 11. "Wheat, chick feed 2s 3d (with plentiful supply). New Zealand milling 3s (market dnl- • oats, best feed Is Sid to 2s Ud ; maize, New Zealand 3s 4d, Cape 2s Gd to 2s 8d (nominal; bran and pollard, quiet at 7JdI; blue Prussian peas, 4s 6d, to -Is 9d ; oat- _.«_ very quiet at £11 to £12 ; old potatoes risakable, new crop plentiful at £3 to _VlO- onions, market glutted, £6 to £i ; i Z +♦_■' dairy made 3id to fed, separator t butter, dairy m . ga best local made 5d to Od, New __£__ SL id to 6_d ; bacon, local cured -1 *_7d. New Zealand c_:e_ Od; __*_ |ew Zealand cured lid to Is with market quiet.

I It is understood that" Searle's wish witregard to the championship was that aa it undoubtedly belonged to Australia; the Australian scullers ought first to compete for it. Efforts are being made to give effect to his dying wish. Mklboukne, December 11. Wheat is weak at 3s Sd; flour, stone made £10, roller made £10 5s and upwards; outs, prime New Zealand milling 3s 4d: nuiize, 3s 7d; barley, feeding, 3s id ; bran, SJd ; sugar Queensland greys £23 10s. Adelaide, December 11. Wheat, shipping parcels 3s Od ; flour, stone made £9, roller made £10 ; oats, New Zealand, 3s 6d ; barley, Cape 2s 9d, malting 4s 6d ; bran, 6d to 6£d ; pollard, 7d; sugar, Mauritius greys and medium whites, £25 10s.