CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7369, 18 May 1895, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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London, May 16.

Leonard Harper w.is arrested in Jersey and charged wish fiv.ud.-s in Christchuroh iv 1892.

Lord Bipoa has replied to the AgentsGeneral that owing to the fact that ho has rocsived no intimation of the holding of a Monetary Conferonco, he id unable to con si-dor whether the colonies can bo allowed direct representation upon it

May 1/. Playing for C'urrey against Warwickshire! Brock well took 8 wickets tor 22 runs.

Mr Lowtber has withdrawn his motion to impose a duty on imported hops, Oecar Wilde aud Taylor will be tried again on Monday before Mr Justice Wills. Iv reply to a question, Mr Buxton said Sir J. Thurston's despatches expressed tho opiaion that tho labor traffic was depopulating some of the i-ljnd?. Lord Ripon intended to confer with Sir J. Thurston on tha subject.

Owing to recent defoats in bye elections, many Liberals are advising the Government to submit the resolution respecting the Lords and then dissolve.

Official Japanese telegrams state that a satisfactory agreement with the Powers is finally oonoluded. It ia reported that Japan will withdraw from Oorea at the end of the year. It is also reported that Russia demands the cession of the island of Quaelpert, off South Corea. Vienna, May 16. Count Kalnoky has again sent in his resignation, and tho Emoeror has accepted it. May 17. Count Kalnoky's retirement is regarded as a crushing blow to the Clerical reaction in Hungary. Count Goluchoroski will probably be his successor. Thb Hauu_, May 10. A convention has bseu signed at The Hague delimiting British and Dutch territory in New Guinea, and roferring the Costa Bica Packet dispute to arbitration. Pas is, _fay 17. A French torpedo boat capsized at Rochforte, and four o£ her orew were drowned. Bbelin, May 16. The Prussian Diet has passed a motion in favor of bimetalism. _-DN_-, May 17. No less than thirteen actions, involving heavy damages, are on the tapis against the Railway Commissioners in connection with tho Redfern collision in Ootober last. The Labor party has decided to vote for the Government. Mr Fergus3on stated that if Sir H6nry Parkes thought he could cram his policy down the throats of the party, he was mistaken. He had jilted them once, bu: was not likely to have the change of jilting the present party. The latter would sink tho fiscal questiou for ihe present occasion only. An examination of the steamer Nineveh, whioh grounded off Botany Heads, shows that a number of plates oa the starboard side bottom are badly buckled, and will havo to be removed. Tha Rowing Association haß inetrnctod the crew not to tike part in the eight-oared r*oe at Brisbano to-morrow, because one of the Victorian crew ia alleged to have raced for cash in a bicyole race. It is believed the crew will iguore tha instructions. Mslbodbnb, May 17. The Hon. J. W. Taverner, Minfster of Agriculture, will submit a bill next seasion to give comprehensive aid in developing the beet sugar industry. It is proposed to afford State aid to growers, by means of a share in guaranteed loans for tho ereotion of sugar worko aud mills in local centres, on the lines followed in Queensland. The Government analyat is conducting experiments, and pending the granting of assistance, the Government advise farmers to grow beet for cattle-feeding purposes. Mr Taverner is convinoed the oolony can produoe the sugar requirod by it, for which it now has to pay a million per annum. In oonneotion with the outbreak of pleuropneu moniu on board the Perthshire tho Minister Btates that the greatest care is exeroised in Victoria in examining exported meat and cattle, whereas there is no Government oversight in New South Wales or New Zealand. He is communicating with the other oolonies, and urging the adoption of a uniform system of inspection, and the positive neoeasity of guaranteeing Australian meat as thoroughly wholesome. If disease is found on arrival in England it will excite a prejudice against it generally, without regard to any partioular colony. Two corporation contractors have been fined for paying smaller wages than the minimum stipulated in their contracts.

Ihe Age, epeaking of the railway standing committee, gives the broad results of its investigations, which have practically come to a conolu9ion. Not one of tho lines suggested in parts of the colony presents a prospeot of yielding a profitable return. Tha probability is the committee will recommend to Parliament the construction of one or two of the moßt promising lines, with the objsct of finding work for the unemployed 'The Minister of Publio Work is strongly opposed to building lines simply in order to provide work. He intends toutilise t : )enarrowgauge where necessary, and will possibly effect a saving by converting a number of non-pay-ing lines from broad to narrow gauge. A oable from Caloutta announces that the tea market has opened at prices Id to ljd higher than last season. ADS-AIDS', Friday.

There is a minature boom in shares. Some Broken Hill mines are known to contain sulphide orea, owing to the discovery by Mr Ashcroft, electrician of the Propriety mine, of a successful process of extracting the zinc by eleotrolysis.