YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 7428, 25 January 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLE NEWS.

Home and Foreign. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! [Per Press Association.] 'The Orient Company have signed the new Australian mail contract. Sir F. D. Bell will have an intreview with M. Pasteur relative to the risk of chicken cholera affecting other animals. Mr F. H. Dangar, formerly of New South Wales, intends to give a banquet to colonists at the Oriental Club to celebrate the Centenary of New South Wales. The capital of the company to take over Bass’s brewery has been subscribed fifteenfold. Mr Cox, M.P. for Fast Clare, who was summoned to appear at Ennis on a charge of •attending meetings which had been proclaimed, failed to appear, and has been arT6 No sales are reported of Australian wheat cargoes. . , The European beetroot crop is estimated to yield 2,300,000 tons. Consols are at 102 L Chilian copper is quoted at L 77 13s per English wheat market has declined (14, The American market has an upward tendency. . The market rate of discount is 1 hj per cent., and the Bank rate 3 per cent. New Zealand inscribed stock is quoted at 99. Tin is lower. Best Australian is quoted at Lio4 15s per ton The Celtic Chief, bound to Albany, came into collision with and sank a German barque in the Bristol Channel. The crew were saved. The Celtic Cidef sustained but little injury, and returned to Falmouth. While Louise Michel was addressing a meeiiug of Anarchists at Havre she was shot at twice and wounded. The would-be assassin was arrested. The wounds received are not serious. The Spanish are organising a force ot 25,000 men. The cause for this action is supposed to be owing to a difficulty with France respecting affairs in Morocco. Mr Walter Gibson, of Hawaii, has died at San Francisco. The tinal appeal of Maxwell, who murdered Prellor some eighteen months ago and has been confined in gaol under sentence of death, lias resulted fruitlessly, ami lie will now be executed. Australian. Tim declaration of weights for the Australian Cup and Newmarket Handicap have been postponed for a week. The ‘Age’ advocate i, in the interests of farmers, an additional import duty on fat stock imported into Victoria. The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Her Majesty the Queen, which was made by J, C. Boehm, R.A., was performed by Lady Cairington to-day in the presence of an immense crowd of .spectators. The Governors of several colonies were present, and brief speeches were delivered by Lord Carrington and Sir Henry Parkes. There were from 20,000 to 30,000 people present. The proceedings were extremely brief, and very orderly. A statement has been published that the German New Guinea Company has already paid a dividend, but it is ridiculed. The Press generally condemn the Bourke-Poh-y exhibition. Mr 1). L. Simpson, formerly harbor engineer in Dunedin, war. picked up in an unconscious state in Pitt street, Sydney, last night, and died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. A rise in the quotations for sugar is expected before the end of the month.