Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6023, 13 December 1890, Page 2

Last Night's Cables.

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London, December'll

The fog having interfered with the last wool sales, the first series in January will be unlimited. The second series,- opening on April 22nd, will bo limited to 400,000 bales. ' ■ New Zealand hemp is in fair demand; good quality £26 10a, fair £24. Quotations for frozen meat are unchanged. Silver has advanced to 4s. A-meeting of shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand will be held on January 14th. for the purpose of amending the con-r stitution. Lord and Lady Carrington were not on board the s.s. Nepaul when she struck'en the rooks in Plymouth Sound, they having v come overland. _* The townspeople at Wyoombo," the'seat of Lord Carrington, are organising a week's festivities in honor of his return, and hie tenants are making similar preparations. Lord Carrington had an interview with, Lord Knutsfoni, Secretary for the Colonies, to-day. December 12. Mr Parnell on his way from Dublin to Cork m°t with a most enthusiastic reception except at Mallow, a place seventeen miles north-west of the latter city, where he was very nearly mobbed. At Cork Mr Parnell, in the course of an address at a public meeting, declared that the trumpery Home Rule of Mr Gladstone wa» no loss.

Mr Barry O'Brien, Mr Parnell's nominee for the Kilkenny North seat, has withdrawn from the contest, and Mr Vincent Soully replaces him. .-,'■.; Aβ was anticipated, the steamer Nepaul beoame a total wreck, and she has now bees abandoned to the underwriters. ~ r

An opinion is prevalent among professional gentlemen at Berlin that Dr. Koch's remedy for consumption is still in an experimental Stage. An agitation which has arisen among the Radicals renders a political crisis in France imminent.

Stdnbt, December 12.

Later news from China states that the two warships which put to sea during the recent jyale, and were reported to have foundered with all hands, have returned to port safely. In a libel action by the Evening News against the Star, in whiotf the proprietors of the former newspaper claimed the sum of £5000 damages for alleged libol contained in the Star's comment on the Evening , News' report of the last Kemp-M'Jbean sculling race, a verdict was returned in favor of the defendant.