TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 7876, 8 April 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN. [By Elkotbio Telegraph—Copstbight.] IPeb Press Assouiation. i POLITICIANS AND CLERICS. LONDON, April 7. (Recoiled April 8,1589, at 1.30 p.m.) Dr Parker, speaking at Liverpool, said that the reason why he refused to stand ou a Liberal platform with Mr John Morley, M.P., was owing to the latter's attacks on religion in his writings, GOLD IN TORQUAY. LONDON, April 7. Gold has been discovered at Torquay. STANLEY'S MOVEMENTS. LONDON, April 7. Mr Delbinton, in a letter to the Press, throws doubt on the story of Stanley being on the march towards Zanzibar, GORDON'S LIBRARY. LONDON, April 8. The library of the late General Gordon has been presented to the Borough of Southampton, MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, April 7. At tho tallow auctions G75 casks were offered and sold. Medium mutton, 255; medium beef, 23s Gd. The price of money is declining, owing to the abundance of supplies. In the open market two months' bills are quoted at 2{ per cent. For Australian wheat (new crop) sellers ask 37s 6d. Colonial bean avorages 35s 9d. Forward business is weak at a decline. The arrivals of foreign wheat are small. Several cargoes at ports of call are awaiting sale. INTERCOLONIAL. (By Elfxjtbio Telegraph.—Copyright.! [Per Press Association.] THE SAMOAN DISASTER. SYDNEY, April 8. A letter received here from Samoa states that tho crops are destroyed, and, as the stores have been used up owing to the recent calamity, there is a strong probability of a famine occurring. Several of the churches here have devoted their collections to the relief of tho Samoans. THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE. SYDNEY, April 8. The merchants and shippers at Newcastle have declared in favor of a fortnightly San Francisco service. PERSONAL. ADELAIDE, April 8. The Earl of Kintore and Mr Dillon, M.P., have arrived here. LOSS OF A BARQUE. MELBOURNE, April 8. Tho barquo Rachel went ashore at Warrnambool during a gale and is likely to become a total wreck. Her crew are safe. INTERPROVINCIAL. (Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 8. The Point Curtis Hotel, at Kaipara, has been destroyed by fire. The local company have increased the price of sugar 10s per ton. Mr H. Oldham, an officer of H.M.S. Orlando, had his leg broken by a collision with a cart when out riding. A woman named Mary Ann Wilson has been reported to the police as having been stabbed while asleep in the suburbs. It is doubtful if she will recover. She was accompanied by a man named Paget, who had been living with her ; but he declares that he knows nothing of tho occurrence. Goldsbury was fined 10s and costs at Onehunga for the practice of holding up a light at night to stop the train. Mr Wood, of East Tamaki, lost six stacks of oats, valued at L2OO, by fire. WELLINGTON, April 8. In consequence of the painting now being done at Government House, Earl Onslow will defer his arrival in Wellington till after April 28, passing the intervening time in Auckland. His children and servants will arrive on that date instead of the 10th. The Piemier leaves for Nelson and the West ooast at the end of the week. The Hon. Mr Mitchelson will possibly not attend the Native meeting next weok, but will leave the Government to be represented by the Hons. T. Fergus and E. C. J. Stevens, who are now in the Northern district. WANGANUI, April 8. Mrs Doran, wife of an engineer lately on the Heads Railway, is missing since last Monday night. Her hat has been found in the river, and it is supposed that she has boen drowned, At the time she was last seen she was suffering greatly from neuralgia, and intimated her intention of walking to town and having a tooth out.