LATE CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 8118, 18 January 1890, Page 3 (Supplement)

LATE CABLES.

Home and Foreign.

Lord Enston denies everything, and adheres to his statement before the Magistrate that he went to the house under the impression that he was goiDg to see an exhibition of poses- plastiques. 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. Emin Bey has suffered a relapse, and his condition is precarious. Teenier, Hanlan, and Gaudaur will enter for the Thayer Sweepstakes, to be rowed in June. Thayer offers Kemp and Stansbm-y 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 siid 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.

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A motion brought forward in the London County Council to accord Mr Stanley a public welcome was withdrawn.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. P, 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; Euston frequented the house in which the ; offences are alleged to have been committed. Several cyclones have been experienced, in Canada. Trains were forced off the rails by : the fury of the wind, ! The summing up of the Judge in <jfe,e libel [ acHon against Mr Parkes' was adverse to* : defendant. His Honov. characterised it s& |an libel.' Mr Parkes, alleges that j the witnesses on whom he relied betrayed ' mil 1 ,

T«e oaee in which Colonel Malleson was muloted in LI,COO damages was a libel action brought against him by Mr Herbert Gladstone for saying the latter would shortly have figured as co-respondent in a divorce suit, but that his father had squared the affair. *i It is believed that B.urke fc Ukely to, make a confession regarding {he Gronin murder. Three mo.nths' bills are quoted at 5 per cent. Tallow, quiet. Mutton, 263 6d 3 beef. 24i 6d. ' Kauri gum is flat. The Naval Board of the United States recommend that a new fleet of 100 Yejssels" should be built, at a cost of ss,Q,oGQ,eoodol, the construction to bg, over fourteen years, Ttfensy thousand people paraded the streets of Lisbon on Thursday as a demonstration against the surrender to England on the Zambesi question.

Australian.

The following are the current quotations for the principal silver shares: —Broken Hill Proprietary, L9O; British Broken Hijl, U> 17s; Central. LIQ. 12s 6d j North, LS 10s 6d ; Souths, L%; Block 14, LlOj Block 1,0, Llo;17* 6d j Junctions, LS Bs. In the. Macleay disisrlot miles of country aie nnciey water, and at Glen Innes the railway bridge has been washed a.way, causing traffic to be suspended., The Lubeck, from Saino*. reports that affairs are but a good deal of illfeeling |s manifested against Colonel Coetlogen, British Vice-Consul. A public meeting has been held, at which it was resolved to petition Sir J. Thurston to removo him. It is reported Colonel Coetiogeu fa to be promoted to. tho gpaifcion of Qonsul in New Caledonfo. Tier© aw great signs of discontent at Tonga, and the small price given foy copra, though no fault of the Governiwent, tends largely to increase the prevailing dissatisfaction. The Natives are quite unable to pay the tax, antt a.re.'seekhiK various means of relief, ■ " ** A block, of V Queea street, Mel. was burned out oh Friday night. 4he. damage ja estimated at L 25.000. • At a meeting of the Steamship Owners' Association at Sydney it was deoided io ascertain the views of all steamship oompanies in Australasia, on the subject of amalgamate, It fs understood that the Unw>n will be included. Owing to the directorate of one company fcping in London, it is-expected, t'aafc three months will elapse before the opinion of all can bfc

obtained. If the replies are favorable to the project, a committee will probably be appointed to inquire into the possibility of devising a scheme for amalgamation. The Committee of the Association, generally speaking, is in favor of it. S««nuiy

ihe cooks and stewards have submitted to the steamship owners the revised rules and regulations adopted at the federal meeting }?^.?. t ° b f- One point is exemption from natality for loss of plate belonging to vessels. Ihe owners consider an important principle is involved in this claim. Certain concessions for overtime are also required. The local Committee of the Union has submitted a scale for an increase of wages by 103 to LI per month for various classes of cooks and stewards The owners have arrived at no decision as yet. The wharf laborers have also passed new rules, which they are about to submit to the steamship owners. No definite information is available, but it is understood an increase ot Is per day is involved for men employed by the day, and a much larger increase for permanent hands ; also some rearrangement of overtime. New demands are made as to payment for "spell" time.