Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5902, 6 August 1890, Page 2

Last Night's Cables.

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Lojtdon, August 5. Th;> Newcastle- dockers have- refused to unload six ships carry int* Danish produce and the services of the crew and of the clerks of the consignees have been secured to discharge the vessels.

Tho ass&nt of the Queen has been given to tho Anglo-German agreement.

At a mass meeting of Arabs the slavery decree recently issued by the Sultan of Zanzibar was accepted.

The death rate from cholera has increased to eSOO daily.

Sydney, August 5. The threatened strike of the JLithgow miners, owing to the employment of " blucklegs," has been averted by the masters agreeing to diechargo tho nonUnion men.

In tho Legislative Assembly notice of motion has been given that an address be presented to Her Majesty praying that the Government bo informed of the intended appointment of a Governor to the colony before tho appointment be finally made. The fitoJimer Janot Nicol has returned from a trip to the ishuide, but the wharf laborers refuse to discharge- her on the ground that she is manned by a colored crow. Mklbotjene, August 5. In the Hoiii-o to-day Mr Munro, leader of the Opposition, moved that the ficancial accounts are munii'estly unreliable, and that thoy be referred baok to the Government for correction. Air Gillies, Premier, auuoutiuod tuat the motion would be treated lie one of wunt-of-eunfidence.