YESTERDAY’S CABLE NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 7430, 27 January 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLE NEWS.

Home ami Foreign. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright, i [Per Press Association.] Consols are quoted at 102}._ Off'coast cargoes of Adelaide wheat arc quoted at 32s 6d ; on the spot, 345. Flour, 23s fid. Victorian and New South Wales butter is averaging 9d per pound. It is reported that the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, M.P. for Sleaford, will succeed Sir William Robinson as Governor of South Australia. Lord Brassey, in delivering an address to the London and Provincial Chambers of Commerce, admitted that the colonial defences were skilfully directed, and eulogised the soldierly qualities of the Australian troops. He said that Sydney and Melbourne had set a noble example in building graving docks suitable for effecting repairs to vessels of the Imperial Navy. He insisted on the defence of Albany, Thursday Island, and Port Darwin being effected, and urged tho Chambers to cultivate puolic opinion in the direction indicated. The Duke of Cawibridge, who was present, endorsed the opinions of Lord Brassey, and Lord Charles Beresfoid thoroughly agreed with the necessity for defending the stations named. After hearing the views of Lord Brassey, the Chambe s resolved to make increased efforts to defend the ocean routes. (Received January 27, 1888, at 2.10 a.m.) The Marquis of Lothian declines to make any advances to the crofters to enable them to emigrate to New Zealand. H. M. schooner Lark has been ordered to Jbe sold in Sydney. Lieutenant Thomas F. Fallen, her commander, has been appointed to the command of the gunboat Stork, which shortly joins the Australian station, Mr Frederick Young, hon. secretary of the Colonial Institute, has been created a K.C.M.G. . The London Press contain highly complimentary notices on the Centenary. The ‘ Daily News’ states that England’s work in Australia has left an enduring work for the future human race. Two thousand peasants, armed with cudgels and revolvers, have assembled at Galcarragh, Ireland, in order to prevent the arrest of Father Stevens. The report that Mr Chamberlain was to succeed the Marquis of Lansdowne, Gover-nor-General of Canada, is denied. The Court of Appeal has decided against priests in Franco being entitled to marry. The Rothschilds have formed a syndicate to lend thirty million florins to Hungary. The Czar has refused to admit the son and a nephew of the Comte de Paris to the Imperial Army. The Dowager Queen Isabella, who was ordered to quit Spain, has been granted permission to reside at Seville.