YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7473, 17 March 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

» • Home and Foreign The treaty signed l>y the Chinese Minister and the U.S., Secretary of, State excludes Chinese laborers from the United States for a period of twenty years. Mr Gladstone was invited to formulate an Irish policy, but he refused on the ground that it was a trap which could only catch the blindest. Colonial stocks continue to advance, and are now quoted at an increase of 1 to H on last prices. The Irish offenders recently hberated from gaol have been entertained at a banquet at Manchester by their sympathisers in that city. Communication with Suakin has been restored, and despatches received State that the town has not been captured, and that all is quiet there, i ■ Terrible gales and snowstorms have been experienced in the southern portion of England, and traffic has been seriously interfered with. On the coast a number of wrecks have been reported. Trains have been embedded in the snow in the north of England, where exceptionally bad weather prevails. Signor Ciro Pinsuti, the composer, died suddenly at Florence while playing the piano. His death is attributed to heart disease. The trustees of the Women's Jubilee offering have decided to expend L 5.000 in personal ornaments for Her Majesty the Queen. Fifteen thousand quarters of wheat by steamers of March and April shipments, to be delivered at a Mediterranean port, have been sold at 345. The Bank rate of discount is 2 per cent. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the reserve in notes and bullion to be LI 6,500,000, being an increase of L 2,540,000 on last week. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 44 per cent. The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,920,000 quarters, and for the Continent 200,000 quarters. Consols are at 101 f. Several municipal stocks have risen 2 and 3 per cent. New South Wales 4 per cents, are at LI 17 10s. Certain stones which were consigned to the Bank of South Australia here have been pronounced garnets, and worth 2s per carat. The bankruptcy of Lord Augustus Loftus has been annulled. Prince Oscar of Sweden has been married to Miss Ebba Munck, at Bournemouth. President Carnot has removed General Boulanger from his command of the 13th Army Corps, stationed at Clermont Ferrand, in consequence of his having visited Paris in disguise without having obtained permission to leave his corps. The general declares that he was removed from his command because he was popular with the electors. -

Australian.

The Chinaman suffering from smallpox on board the Moyne died at Sydney yesterday. The" extension of the railway system to the western suburbs of Sydney is contemplated, at a cost of L 200.000. A further telegram received from Forbes in reference to the fire there states that the post office escaped destruction, although the tower took fire. The fire originated in the hotel stables, and two horses were burnt to death. A groom who had been recently discharged has been arrested on suspicion of having set the stables on fire. It is probable the corporation officers suspected of being concerned in the frauds just disclosed will be prosecuted. Griffen, the defaulting teller of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, who is wanted for the embezzlement of L 2.000, has been arrested at Euroa. A large number of sheep have been destroyed in the prevailing bush fires, and these have become so serious that a number of men are leaving town to cope with them. As much as LI per day is offered for assistance in some places. Sir Robert Wisdom, formerly Attor-ney-General, died at Sydney yesterday. Sir Robert has been ailing since his return from Europe, suffering from a complication of disorders. He suddenly took a turn for the worse, and the primary cause was jaundice. [Sir R. Wisdom was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, January 31, 1830; arrived in Australia at the age of four, with hia parents; educated at Maitland and at the Sydney College; admitted to the Bar, 1881; entered Parliament in 1859 for the Wertern Goldfields, being the first member Sot tbt.t electorate, after the passing of the Act to giire representatives to gold-diggers, having for this purpose resigned his office of Gold Commissioner (which he had held only for a few months), in response to a nume-rously-signed requisition; has been continuously a member of the Legislative Assembly, except daring one Parliament; represented the Western Goldfields in two Parliaments, the Lower Hunter in two Parliaments, and, on the lastoccaßion, represented the Northern Goldfielde, but resigned ; was for a short time Crown Prosecutor, but in response to a requisition he resigned in 1874, for the purpose of contesting the election for Morpeth, which he twice represented, being, at the later election, returned unopposed; was Chairman of Committees in the Assembly for nearly four years. In the formation of Cabinets, the offer of portfolios as AttorneyGeneral, Minister for Justice, Minister for Lands, Minister for Works, and Colonial Treasurer, have been made to Mr Wisdom on six occasions respectively by Mr W. Forster, Sir C. Cowper. Sir John Robert son, Mr Stuart, Mr Farnell, and Sir H. Parke*; but he has persistently refused acceptance, preferring independence and attention to the duties of his profession to the position of a Minister of the Crown. He was by one vote defeated for the Speakership of the House by 81r G. Wigram Allen; in 1878 was appointed a member of the Council of Education. He has since held office under Sir Henry Parkes as AttorneyGenenl; and last year, in conjunction with Sir Patrick Jennings, represented New South Wale* at the Imperial Conference. Mr Wisdom wgj» a magistrate of the colony since 1859.]