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Evening Star, Issue 7386, 5 December 1887, Page 2

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ABY ELECTION. ;-t: LONDON, December 2. The election of a member to represent the Camberwell division of, Dnjwich took place yesterday. The vacancy was caused by the appointment of Mr J. M. Howard, Q.C., sitting member, to a judgeship. Mr Maple, the Conservative candidate, defeated his opponent by votes. [The representation is unaltered, Mr Howard (0.) was returned unopposed at the general election, but in 1885 be was opposed by. Mr Collins, the voting being: Howard, 4,406; Collins, 2,712. The late member is described as a self-made man. He at one time occupied a place In Sir H. Peek’s office; was called to the Bar in 1858; was made a Q.O, in 1874. Just a year ago it was written of him : " He has done yeoman's service at Conservative demonstrations in London; and if there is any gratitude in the leader of his party he, ought to be ‘remembered.’”] THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN. LONDON, December 2. Mr Sexton, M.P., has been elected Lord Mayor ot Dublin, MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL, LONDON, December 2. Consols and New Zealand securities are quoted at yesterday’s prices, Breadstuffs and tallow are unaltered in value. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,460,000 quarters, and for the Continent of Europe 2,070,000 quarters, CONVICTIONS UNDER THE COERCION ACT. LONDON, December 3. Mr Timothy Harrington, M.P. for Dublin Harbor, and secretary to the National League, has been arrested for publishing reports of meetings of the League. Mr Edward Harrington, M.P, for West Kerry, has also been arrested for publishing similar reports in the Kerry ‘Sentinel.’ The rehearing of the charge against Mr Sullivan, late Lord Mayor of Dublin, for publishing reports of the doings of the suppressed branches of the League in September last, terminated in the conviction of the accused, who was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF FIJI. LONDON, December 3. It is reported that Sir J. B. Thurston will succeed Sir Charles Mitchell as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Sir Charles is to receive promotion. LONDON, December 3. (Received Dtcjmber 5, 1887, ftt 12.60 p.m.) The appointment of Sir J. B. Thurston as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific is officially announced. [Special to Press Association.) LONDON, December 2. The Catherine, bound to Sydney, came into collision with the steamer Clyde during a fog off Dover. The Catherine sank, but the crew were rescued by the other vessel. Mr Les Mouluns has been appointed manager of the London branch of the Queensland National Bank. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, has been granted leave of absence, and will probably sail for Sydney at the end of the month. It is expected that Sir Samuel Cooper will replace him. An official bulletin issued to-day announces that the disease from which the Crown Prince of Germany is suffering shows no signs of spreading. LONDON, December 3. (Received December 5,18i7, at 2.15 a.m.) The wheat market is quiet, but prices are stable. American rates are relatively dearer. The supply has been augmented by 2,000,000 bushels. The quantity for export has been increased. The German import duty on wheat has been raised to 13s, and on flour to 17s 9d. Quotations for Australian and German shipments of wheat are unchanged, A November shipment has been sold at 34s 3d, but more is asked for January cargoes.

Several dynamite factories belonging to Nihilists have been discovered in St. Petersburg, and on seizure being made severe fights resulted. Many arrests have been made. The German Reichstag have referred the question of revising the Tariff to a committee. The correspondent of the ‘ Morning Chronicle ’ states that the proposed alterations of the Landsturm (German army) will increase the effective force by 400,000 men. It is reported that an enormous Russian force is stationed along the whole of the Austrian frontier. The report has occasioned much uneasiness. Her Majesty has accepted several specimens of opals discovered in Queensland. Sir Charles Dilke, speaking at Paddington, said that a closer military union with the colonies would compel the Empire to spend less on military preparations, and would possibly Involve a closer military league. The Catholic Primate of Ireland is dead. [The Most Rev. Daniel M'Gettigan was consecrated in 1850 as Archbishop of Armagh.] The ' Spectator 1 considers that to adopt M. Pasteur's system for remedying the rabbit pest would result in unforeseen horrors. The Admiralty advise the English Government to contribute towards the cost of the Antartic expedition, on condition that a naval officer, having experience of polar regions, is placed In command of the expedition.' (Received December 6, 188?. at 11.DO a m.) Mr T. P. Sullivan, late Lord Mayor of Dublin, who has been Imprisoned for publishing reports of the suppressed brandies of the National League, will be treated as a first-class misdemeanant. Mr Sullivan does not intend to appeal against this conviction. Lord Hartington, speaking at Rosendale, objected to the one-man one-vote principle, and said that the Unionists would only rejoin the Liberal party when the latter abandoned the Home Rule policy. Mr Gladstone has astounded his followers by writing to Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, urging Whig treatment of Ireland, and pointing out that the ‘present rapture in the Liberal party is calculated to limit the, weight of their policy. The members of I Mr Gladstone’s party construe the overtures to mean a reunion, and the Radical i section is consequently angry.