Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5970, 24 October 1890, Page 2

Last Night's Cables.

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London, October 23

Sir S. Samuel is enquiring for a s-arable central nite on which to reopen the mining exhibition.

A conference of Australian commandants to discuss tho question of fortifying King George's Sound and Thursday Island, will assemble at Albany on November 21th.

Under the revised tariff flax and hemp will be admitted frae infce France, but cereals, live stock, and meat, will be charged the maximum r_te, Sydney, October 23. The followins* are the latest silver mine quotations:—Broken Hill Proprietary £12 17s 6d ; British Broken Hill, £3 ; Central, £6 2s; North, £1 8s; South, £4 I7s; Block 10, £13 18s; Junctions, £2 ISs 6d.

In the Lower House to-night Mr Dibbs moved a vote of censure on the Governmsnt for postponing the declaration of their fiscal., policy, and the House adjourned tilt Wednesday.

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London, October 22.

At a meeting of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Sir John Pender said that the colonies were certain to co-operate in an endeavor to establish a four shillings per word rate on the terms offered by the company, and that New Zealand was likely to join. Duncan, the editor of the Matrimonial News, airainst whom £10,000 damages were •recently awarded in a breach of promise case, has been charged with fraudulent bankruptcy.

The summons against Mr Harrison for taking part in the riots at Tipperarv has been withdrawn. Counsel for the defendants have applied for a summons calling on Mr Balfour to produce an official report of the speeches of the accu°ed, and to point out the portions on which a conviction is sought to be obtained.

October 23,

The Daily Chronicle hopes that Western Australia, now it is entrusted with responsible governmont, will refrain from raoriffaaiug the future.

A Portuguese battalion has been formed iv Rio de Janeiro, and has started for tho Zambesi.