Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5945, 25 September 1890, Page 2

Last Night's Cables.

[pee pekss association.—copyright.]

_~ • . ~ LoNDON . September 23. Slavin and M'Auliffe were bound over in sureties-of £2000 each, to called upon. It is probable, however, that the fight will be brought off within a week.

_ September 24. Mr Luscombe Searelle's opera "The Black Rover" has been produced at tho Globe Theatre with fair success. Miss Blanch Fenton takes a part, and Mrs Searelle is the prima donna. Mr Patrick O'Brien, MP., has been arreßted on a charge of intimidation.

■mt *r _ , Sydney, September 24. Mr Macfarlane has given notice in the Legislative Assembly to move for the imposition of an import duty of 6d a bushel on maize, wheat, oats, barley, and ryeof 4d pe_ bushel on beans and peas; of 10a per ton on hay, chaff, and potatoes' and £1 a ton on flour and meal.

Msxboubnb, September 24. Tho shief officer of the Union Company', new steamer Taviuna arrived to-day at Wilson's Promontory in a boat, and reported that the vessel had broken down some distance to the east of the point. Shortly after the P. and O. Company's steamer Carthage was sighted with the Taviuna in tow. The latter sails en her maiden trip in these waters to Suva on Saturday. In consequence of the proximity of the Snares to New Zealand that colony will probably be asked to undertake the construction of a lighthouse there. [SPECIAL TO PBESS ASSOCIATION.—OOFYEIOHT.] ._■ _-. London, September 24. _Mr T_m Healey, M.P., speaking at Dublin, demanded autonomy for Ireland similar to that granted to the upstart colony of Western Australia. He asserted that England would only sustain the landlords against famine, and that the League would have to r> rovide for the tenants The trial of Birchall on a charge of murdering at English toarist, has begun at Ottawa. ILswife is charged with being accessory before the fact. j The _inti-81avery Conference is a Buooess.