CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7336, 8 April 1895, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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Lonik?k, April 6. Shares'in the West Australian Midland Bail way Oompany have been allotted. Lord F ingall's telegram re the shoot of gold in the Londonderry mine giving out was received, on April Ist, but owing to the absenoe of the directors the news was not published until the sth, thong h shares began to fall on the 2nd. Oolonel North offers to deposit in the hands of trustees cash and vendors' shares equal to the amount of his net profits, the shareholders receiving the income until the oorapany has earned 10 per oent. on the aapital for two years. He hopes that the other vendors will take similar action. The papers coneider the Oolonel's offer a very fair one, and that the .London directors throughout have aoted in good faith. Owing to the attitude adopted by the Ulster members the Irish Lind B>ll was read a second time in the House of Commons without division.

For the month of March the imports have increased £053,000, ond the exports £424,000. The English Press generally regard HI. Hanoteaux's explanation in the French Chamber of Deputies reepyeting the .Migor and Upper .Nile very unsatisfactory, and a virtual defiance to JKlngland.

Oecar Wilde publishes a letter stating that he abandoned his case in order to avoid placing Lord Douglas in the witness box. After the warrant had been issued fer Wilde , a arrest the police detained three essential witnesses. .Lord Douglas and two men remained in oonferenns with Wilde at the Viaduct Hotel, Holborn, for soveral iboura after tha trial, and thsy lunohod together in a private room. Subsequently they drove to the Sank, where Wilde withdrew a large sum of money. Ho was then lost eight of until he was arrested ia the evening at an hotel in Sloane street. Lord Douglas was inuah distressed when he found he was unable to bail him out. After the trial the Marquis of Queemberry sent Wilde a message stating that ho would shoot him if he took his son abroad. Taylor has also been arrested, and will be charged in conjunction with Wilde. The lattei's name has been withdrawn from the playbills of London and American theatres. A company has been projected here to take over khe Great Western vineyards in Victoria. Lord Halifax and Cardinal Vaughan have left on a visit to fiome, and it is supposed that their mission ia to promote the union of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, The Archbishop, in a etroagiy worded latter, declares that such a tinion is. imposeible. The Court has sanctioned the reduction of the capital of the New Zealand and fiber Plate Company by £20,000. The final round of Bugby Union games was played to-day between England and Scotland, the former winning by three goals. An influential meeting of City men, including Baron Welby, formerly fecre'ary to the Treasury, and Baron Farrer of Abinger, formerlj Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade, and several bankers, was held to-day, when a oommistee was appointed to resist any alteration in the monetary standard. Calcutta, April 6. The news is confirmed that Umra Khan's forces captured lieutenants Fowler and Edwards and nine Sepoys near the BSastuj Pass immediately af tar the disaster to Lieutenint Koss' party, and they were conveyed to Harwa, near alidand, where they were well treated. Dr. Eobertson, the British agent, and the Chitral garrison are safe and not presoed by the enemy. ihey have at present plenty of provihions. It is officially announced that ten British and three Oepoys were killed in the engagement at Malakund Pass, and ten officers and twenty-eight British troops and twenty-seven Sepoys were wounded. Pabis, April 5. News has been received that the Queen of Madagascar has invited her subjects to bravely reeist the French. The French newspapers declare that if M. Eauotaux ia firm he will repeat in Africa the ouocesses achieved in faiam. Shakqhai, April 6. It is reported that Li Hung Ohang has stopped the peace negotiations owing to the rexeution of Port Arthur by the Japanese. Sydnisy, April 6 With reference to the cablegram that it ia expected that New i-outh Wales will shortly ba a borrower in the London market, the Premisr rtaiest'iat he knows of nothing to give any foundation for that belief, and he looks upon the statement in the light of the wish being father to the thought, and considers it to be inspired by English financiers -who ara anxious to see i% ew South Wales attain enter the money market. To-day was Hospital Saturday and over 2000 lady volunteers collected £2625 as against £1075 fur last yew. The bowing todsn wore mat; on arrival and a hearty welcome extended by the president and members of the New Mouh Wales Bowling As«ociation. Captain Close wus released immediately on being informed of the decision of the court martial, bat has been granted leave pending further information.