Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6033, 27 December 1890, Page 4

Last Night's Cables.

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The Lord Mayor will entertain a number of the leading colonists at a banquet and also Lord l!arrington. The Right Hon. the Rev. William Thompson, Archbishop of York, is seriously .ill, and bis medical attendants report that he is Binking. Her Majesty the Queen having consented to become sponsor to Lord Onslow's son, Sir F. Dillon Bell is asking her to indicate the name of the child. Mr Viucent Scully intends to petition against the return of Sir John Pope Hennessy ou the ground of undue influence being brought to bear on tho electors by the priests. A quantity of the Aorangi's butter realised only from 70s to 9ls. Professor Anderson Stuart, who has been investigating Dr Koch's cure on behalf of several colonies, reports that good results may be obtained with respect to joints and bones and perhaps in lupus, but he considers the treatment injurious in cases of advanced consumption, and says that the early stages are improved more subjective)than objectively. Moat of the doutors who have been enquiring into tbe cure assume a reserved attitude. Professor Stuart will take a quantity of lymph to Australia, and he will lecturo on tho treatment, and will demonstrate tho action of the lymph in Sydney in March. He considers that no patients should coma to Europe from Australia. December 24. Tallow, best mutton, 26s Gd to 275; beef, 20a co 2Gs Gd. Adelaide wheat is firmer at HSs Gd ; Victorian wheat is firm at 38a; New Zealand long berried is firm at 37s Gd. German sugar 12s Gd, with restricted business,' Java, 14s 9d. Three months' bills are diaoounted at 4 per cent. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron f.o.b. in the Clyde, -IGs 3d. The ' quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,224,000 quarters, and for the Continent 784,000 quarters. The American visible supply is 25.37G,000 bushels. Union Steamship Company's shares are quoted at £11 10s; New Zealand Shipping Company, £4 ; Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, £10. The employes of the North Eastern Railway Company states that they are contented with tho number of hours they work and will not go out ou strike. Tho North British Company havo decided to prosecute those who have gone out for leaving without giving tho necessary notice. The employes of all classos of tho North British Company, the Caledonian Company, and tho Glasgow and South Western Company are out on strike. The number of men affected is 10,000, and only the mail trains are undisturbed. A coal lamiue is feared at Glasgow. New Zealand Government stocks aro virtually unchanged, but business is limited. Mr Parnell declares that bo is undaunted by tho result of tho Kilkenny North olection, and that ho will contest every Home Rule seat in Ireland. The Times, iv an article referring to the eloction, says that, the result will compel the Gladstone party to carry tho millstone of Home Rule round their necks. December 24. The American press urge Mr Parnell to retire from taking a prominent position in the affair* of Ireland. The Finance Committee of tho Senate recommend the Treasury toissue 200,000,000 2 per cent dollar bouds to replace retired bank notes. At a trial of a thirty-foot gun at Sandy Hook shells were hurled a distance of 15 miles. The American troops havo captured h number of Indians at Messiah. The Republic of Columbia having oxtended tho concessions, it is expected that work at the Panama Canal will bo resumed shortly. Severe storms havo boei experienced off tho coast of Newfoundland, and sixty fishing boats with their occupants havo been lost. December 25. The railway companies whose employes j have gone out on strike offered to refer tho dispute as to tho hours of labor to arbitration, but tho men would not iisten to tho offer. Owing to the stoppage of traffic in consequence of tho strike many large manufactories have had to cease work, and the collerius on the basin of th« Cij de havu beeu olosod on Recount of the scarcity of railway waggons. The striko is seriously affecting tin- Glasgow meat ruArKet, tho butchers being unabls to secure the usual consignments of bullocks and other live stock for slaughtering. Partly owing to the want of coal and partly because of tho pamlyis of the railway traffic the sugar rofiiiJries have been compelled to temporarily stop work. Tho docks committee have nude arrangements for aontiuuing tbe discharge of vessels until February. Intelligence has beeu received of a collision which took pla-io between the steamers Talookdar aud Libuhia, olf Pernambuco. The former vessel sank and ! her captain and twenty-two of her crowwere drowned. Six thousand railway hands aro out on strike and tho managers of the So itch railways havo resolved not to yield to the men. Tbe railway traffic in England is. paralysed. The Gorman State pays Dr. Koch and the assistants who have worked with him in his i search for a cure fur consumption ;>,000,000 marks for the right to make consumptive lymph. It is expeoted that the profits J from the sale of the lymph will amount to fully 4,000,000 marks annually. Germany pays 4, 000,000 marks for the concessions made to that country by the Sultan of Zanzibar, and it is arranged that the latter shall maintain sovereign i ightK. Tbe question of the relations between capitul and labor has been under consideration in the French Senate, and a bill has been passed enforcing the drawitig-up und signing of definite contracts between the masters and tho men in nil trades and industries, rendering either party to such contracts liable to a claim for damages in tho cventof their terminating their engagements at any moment without duo notice boing given. President Harrison has issued an invitation t° a " nations to scud exhibits to tho great exhibition which is to bo held at Chicago in 18!>3. December 2b. Frank Smith, who was in chargo of the social reform wing of the Salwtion Army, has seceded from that body owing to a quarrel he had with " General " Booth in connection with tha administration of the funds of the Army. Obituary—Tho Most Rev. William ; Thompson, D.D., Arobbishop of York, aged j 72. Sydnky, December 21. The following are tho current quotations for tbe principal silver mining shares:—! Proprietary, £li Ms; North British, £:; Is; Centrals, £7 5s ; North, £1 os Gd ; South, £5 17s; Block No. li, £6 19s: Block No. 10, £13 Ms; Junctions, £o 10s. Messrs Howard Smith and Co. aud the Australian United Steamship Company havo arranged to work their steamers in eoor .-"ration, thus avoiding cut-throat competition. r December 20. Glorious weather, though rather hot, was experienced throughout the cou'ny toSnow fell ye^ ter 'i a y at Kaindra, M!i miles south-west o' Sydney. A difficulty has arisen with the wharf laborers over tho payment for working on holidays. The men engaged by tbe Union Steamship Company and tho Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company struck against Is Gd per hour instead of tho 2b which the owners had promisod. Mk-hodhnu, December 25. Mr J. G. Duffy, Postmaster-General, proposes that a postal aud telegraphic conference should meet in Sydney iv several matters of great importance By holding the conference in March ho hopes to take advantage of the Federal Convention which meets in Sydney about, that time. South Australia has agreed to the proposal, but as yet no replies have been received from the other colonies. The weather lias been fine to-day for tbe holidayJa_"ies Mirams and William Doherty, of the Pre mier Permanent Building Association, have been convicted on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the shareholders, and have been t'eutencod to 12 months' a:id 18 months' imprisonment respectively. The J charges agah'ist the others wero not'proved. { Bbisbane, December 23. i An extensive discovory of silver has been a made at Eugham which is bolieved to ( approach if not exceed the Broken Hill ( silver. A valuable find of rich antimony 8 has also been made in an abandoned claim rj at Charters Towers. I (