YESTERDAY’S CABLE NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 7449, 18 February 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLE NEWS.

Home and Foreign. [By Electric Telegraph-Copyright.] (Per Press Association.] The Rev. Charles Spurgeon has delivered an outspoken sermon denouncing modern profligacy in a most uncompromising manner. The Australian shippers meet on Monday to consider the Committee’s report, which recommends the establishment of a standing committee, which will take action to compel the brokers’ agreements to be equitably observed, and prevent the varying of terms for their own benefit. Mr Buchanan (a Gladstonite) and Mr Raleigh (a Unionist) have been nominated for the Edinburgh West seat. Heavy avalanches of snow have fallen in the neighborhood of Berne (Switzerland) during the last few days, and the loss in property and dwellings is very great. It is reported that numerous lives have been lost. The Porte insists on the proposed amendments in the Suez Canal Convention, but as both Prance and England are not inclined to accept the Sultan’s suggestions an early settlement of the dispute is considered doubtful. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,472,000 quarters. The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the reserve in notes and bullion to be L 15,184,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 46 percent. The wheat market for shipments (ex store) is quiet. There are 46,000 tons of copper available for sale. The tallow market remains firm. The price of tin has advanced to LIG7 10s. The Premier of Manitoba has entered into a fresh contract for the construction of the Red River Railway. The Hon. Edward Heneage, M.P. for Grimsby, has been appointed the first President of the Commission to administer naval and military affairs in the New Hebrides. The appointment of Mr Cowcn as musical conductor at the Melbourne Exhibition has been confirmed. He will be allowed L 5,000 for expenses, as he is under an engagement for ten months. A nephew of M. Pasteur’s will leave for Australia in the Cuzco, taking with him a quantity of microbes for experimenting in New South Wales in exterminating rabbits. The Committee of the Australian shippers have virtually agreed to advise the others to compromise with the Mutual Shipping Company and Associated Brokers on the basis that greater latitude and privileges should be extended to shippers. The Crown Princo is suffering from a severe cough, and is much troubled with phlegm. His medical advisers fear that bronchitis may set in. The Spanish Government intend to convene an International Congress to consider the fraudulent trade marks used in connection with the wine trade. The English Government have been requested to ask the colonial Governments if they desire to ho represented at the Congress.|