YESTERDAY'S CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 8117, 17 January 1890, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES

Home and Foreign,

Lord Euston denies everything, and adheres to his statement before the Magistrate that he went to the house under the impression that he was going to see an exhibition of poses ■plctiliques. The firm of Artola, Artola, and Herman, merchants and bankers, carrying on business in London, Paris, and Spain, have failed for half a million. The Khedive decorated Mr H. M. Stanley and his party. 1 Emin Bey has suffered a relapse, and his condition is precarious, Tcemer, Hanlan, and Gaudaur will enter for the Thayer Sweepstakes, to be rowed in June. Thayer offers Kemp and Stansbury LIOO apiece for expenses if they will compete.

At a dinner given in celebration of the jubilee of the establishment of the penny post system Postmaster-General Raikes said that penny rates to Australia would involve a loss of twopence on every letter carried, and benefit the few at the expense of the many.

The Goldfinch will replace the Raven on the Australian station.

Sir J. P, Hennessy, in the course of a speech at the Colonial Institute, said that Australia was justified in excluding Chinese from her shores.

A motion brought forward in the London County Council to accord Mr Stanley a public welcome was withdrawn, Mr J. F. Burns denounced the explorer as a mere buccaneer, who undertook the expedition because he was anxious to secure Emin Bey’s store of ivory. In the libel case against Mr Parkes, witnesses for the defence swore that Lord Euaton frequented the house in which the offences are alleged to have teen committed. Several cyclones have been.experienced iu Canada. Trains were forced off the rails by the fury of the wind.

Anstraliai!,

The following are the current quotations for the principal silver shares: —Broken Hill Proprietary, L9O; British Broken Hill, L 6 17s; Central, Ll2 12s 6d; North, L2 10s 6d ; Souths, L 7; Block 14, L 10; Block 10, Lls 17s fid; Junctions, L 8 6s. In the Macleay district miles of country are under water, and at Glen Innes the railway bridge has been washed away, causing traffic to be suspended. The Lubeck, from Samoa, reports that affairs are quiet, but a good deal of illfeeling is manifested against Colonel Coetlogen, British Vice-Consul, A public meetmg has been held, at which it was resolved to petition Sir J. Thurston to remove him. It is reported Colonel Coetlogen is to be promoted to the position of Consul in New Caledonia. There are great signs of discontent at Tonga, and the small price given for copra, though no fault of the Government, tends largely to increase the prevailing dissatisfaction. The Natives are quite unable to pay the tax, and are seeking various means of relief.