SPECIAL CABLES.

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

SPECIAL CABLES.

SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COP__G_T.]

(Received December 12, 12.30 p.m.)

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

London, December 11. The depositors in the Bank of New Zealand aro lew uneasy, and it is hoped that the excitement manifested yesterday over the article in the Financial Times is now allayed. Tho Board of Directors have intimated that they will issue a circular tomorrow. THE MANCHESTER GASMEN. The Manchester gasmen aro now wUling to resume work, but the companies having filled up the places of the men who went out on strike, decline to re-engage them. COAL PORTERS' STRIKE. The coal porters have not gone on. strike, but will accept higher wages provided the coal masters boycott tho MetropoUtan Gas Company. CATHOLIC BANK. The project for establishing a Catholic Bank has been abandoned. INFLUENZA SPREADING. The epidemic of influenza reported from Denmark and Austria has now made its appearance at Berlin and Paris. DOM PEDRO. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, wiU spend tho winter at Cannes. WHAT AN EX-GOVERNOR HAS TO SAY. Sir William Jervois, speaking at the Colonial Institute, said that irrigation works wero absolutely necessary in Australia to ensure the success of agricultural pursuits. Referring to defence, the exGovernor of New Zealand said the navy must bo the first line of defence of Australasia. Lord Brassey coucurred with Lord Rosebery that a Federal Conference should be held.