YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7474, 19 March 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

(Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Per Press Association.]

Home and Foreign.

The Secretary for the Colonies has requested the Government of New South Wales to reply to his circular bearing on the Merchandise Marks The Chinese Government have directed the Thibetans who have been raiding Sikkim to evacuate that State.

Fresh butter,—New Zealand, 83s per cwt; Australian, 56s to 755. Market weak.

Kauri gum flat. New South Wales 3J per cents., 108 ; 4 per cents,, 106. Queensland and South Australian fours, LlO7 JOs J Victorian fours, 1.114 10s. The ship Loch Garry, which left •Melbourne on December 21, ran ashore at the mouth of the Thames, but was floated off and towed up to ‘tlio docks# The dismissal of General Boulanger from the command of the Thirteenth Army Corps at Clermont Ferrand is generally approved. General Boulanger publishes a statement that his Visit to the city in disguise was in consequence of his having received news of his wife being seriously ill, and that he had been refused leave to visit her. The marriage of Prince Oscar ox •Sweden to Miss Ebba Munck, a relative o! the late Professor Munck, the Norwegian historian, was conducted privately only his mother, the Duchess of Albany, and his cousin ■being present. During the recent heavy gales communication with Boston (U.S.) has only been maintained through London.

Australian.

In consequence of the number of disorderly scenes in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, the Government have cabled to the English Government for a copy of the procedure rules adopted by the House of Commons, with a view to proposing the adoption in Sydney of such of the new rules as may be suitable to the circumstances of the Legislature. Ihere have been over sixty incidents of a ■disorderly character this session. The ship Aristomene, with 2,700 tons of coal on board, consigned to San Francisco, caught fire at Newcastle on Sunday morning. The fire is supposed to have originated in some flax which was stowed under the locker. The pumps were set to work fit once, and an immense body of water was put into the ship, when she showed signs of sinking, and the officers decided to run her ashore. At four o’clock the fire was got under without the ship having sustained any serious injury. The cost of repairs is estimated at L 3,000. A strike is imminent at the South Waratah (Newcastle) Colliery Mine. A dispute with the men as to the rate of pay for taking out waste is the cause of the disagreement. An elderly man named Isaac Green wounded his wife severely at Brisbane on Friday, and then shot himself dead. The couple had only been married twelve months, but they quarrelled frequently. It is stated that Green was drunk when he fired the shots,