YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 7412, 6 January 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Home and Foreign.

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LONDON, January 4. New South Wales 3| per cents, are quoted at 995. It is proposed to form a tin plate ring in Swansea, Wales. New Zealand 5 per cents, are at 106, ana bribed stock at 973- „ , , .. The Theatre Royal at Bolton, Lancashire, was destroyed by fire after midnight on January 3. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Mr T. Sexton, M.P. for Slig» South, who was recovering from his recent illness, has suffered a relapse, and is now in a serious condition. , . , The principal English football journals deprecate sending a team to the colonies, and predict certain failure. The Victorian Loan of L 1,500,000 at 4 per cent, is announced. The minimum has been fixed at 104, and the loan is already quoted at 3 per cent, premium. Eighty-five per cent, will be payable on February 21. A French machine invented for shearing a sheep in five minutes will shortly be sent to Australia. „.«,<-., i . i Sir Graham Berry, Sir Saul Sahiuel, and Sir Arthur Blyth had an interview on January 4 with Sir Heury Holland with reference to the new mail contract. Sir Arthur Blyth strongly urged the immediate eigning of the contract without including the parcels post. Sir Saul Samuel insisted on the inclusion of parcels, bvit Sir F. D. Bell was not instructed in tho matter. After discussion, it was virtually agreed to sign forthwith, abandoning the parcels post clause if the colonies Post-master-General Raikcs will conclude a mail agreement with Italy similar to the one arranged in 1352 governing French-Aus-tralian malls. Admiral Gervase will replace Admiral Many as French Minister of Marine. Tho Pope, in an address to cardinals and bishops, said that the Church ought to be independent of terrestrial authority, and to reduce its interests within Italian laws could only result deplorably. He invited tbe Quirinal to effect a reconciliation with the Church. He announced that an Encyclical letter would shortly bo hsUed regarding Socialism and tho license of the Press.

A Yeilow Book issued in Paris states that the Marquis of Salisbury proposed in March last that the New Hebrides and Suez Canal questions should be considered conjointly, and it appears that the French Government have been constantly urgiug a settlement of both questions. The Regency proposal alleged to have been made by Prince Bismarck in the event of the Emperor's foath is absolutely denied. The Emperor of Germany has conferred the CJrand Gross of the Red Eagle on Hcrr Tisaa, Premier of Hungary. Lord Randolph Churchill arrived in Moscow to-day from Gatschina. The Ameer of Afghanistan has applied to the Viceroy of India for an ollicer to reorganise his forcee. The Orient steamer Ormuz has arrive! at Suez from Adelaide, six days ahead of timetable date.

Thirty thousft»d colliers are out of employment in The Winchester scat in the House of V3ommons having been rendered vacant by the death of Mr A. L. Tottenham, Messrs Philip Vanderbyl (Liberal) and Richard Moss (Unionist) are announced as candidates. The amount of damage done by the bursting of the Birmingham canal is estimated at UO.OOO. Many streets in the vicinity of the accident were inundated.

At a meeting of thirty Dissenting clergymen at Cardiff a protest was made against the Government oppression of Ireland. The ' Financial News' predicts a smart advance in silver.

The Agents-General arc surprised at the aetion of Sir Henry Parkes in insisting on the inclusion of the parcels clause in the mail contract.

Australian. Burke has challenged Kilrain to light for LSOO, giving the latter LIOO for his expenses. The Victorian loan about to be placed on the market is the last instalment of the six millions authorised. It has been decided that if Sir Graham Berry desires it, a year's extension of the Agent-Generalship will be granted him. Premier Gillies will probably succeed him, and Mr James Service take the leadership of the party. The cancelled notes which were recently stolen have ceased being in circulation. The Wharf Laborers' Union and the Stevedores' Association at Melbourne arc at loggerheads. The former arc insisting on being allowed to discharge steamships us Well as receive cargo on the wharves. The Stevedores' Association supplied men to do both classes of work, and further complications are expected. Mr Edward Pritchard, of Sydney, who h.is bought tho right to Julicn's electric tram system, has a plant coming out for experimental purposes shortly. Tho patent claims to effect a saving of at least half the present cost of tramways, and is said to possess other advantages. The New South Wales revenue returns show that the estimated deficit has been reduced to L 25.000. The city of Sydney will be generally illuminated on Centenary night. Postmaster-General Burns maintains that the mail companies were well aware of the parcels-post question when the contract was drawn up. The amount involved is only LSOO. lie also favors the establishment of a threepenny rate on all direct sea routes, whilst the Postmasters-General of other colonies favor a fourpenny rate. The number of passengers who travelled on the railways in New South Wales during the Christmas holidays was 55,000 less than last year. H. A. Wood r ex-curator of intestate estates, who levanted from Adelaide two years ago, is, it appears, now a resident of Corregidar, a city of Northern Mexico, where he has a fine estate of 100,000 acres. Wood married a wealthy Mexican lady, although his wife is in this city, and when he levanted he eloped with another woman. It 18 asserted influence was brought to bear to prevent the police pursuing him energetically. The Croydon (Queensland) goldfield is developing richly, and a large quantity of gold has already been sent down. There is now a considerable population on the field. One mine has returned 12oz per ton from 120 tons of stone.

Major-general fc'chaw is oxpeetod to report on the Tasmanian defences.