YESTERDAY'S CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 8279, 26 July 1890, Page 3 (Supplement)

YESTERDAY'S CABLES

Home and Foreign.

Applications for shares in the New Zealand Estates Company close at London on Monday. Quotations for New Zealand hemp and oats are unchanged. Tbe debentures of the New Zealand Estates Company are quoted at 2 per cent, premium. New Zealand frozen mutton, per lb ; lamb, sd. New Zealand beef: Hindquarters, 4d ; forequarters, 2£d. The recent severe storms have mostly injured the barley crops. The Australian Agricultural Company declare a dividend of 36s per share. Mr Williamson, of Melbourne, offered Mr and Mrs Kendal L 6.000 for an Australian tour. The offer, however, was declined on the ground that a provincial tour pays better. In the Divorce Court Lord Clancarty admitted giving the Messrs Lewis carle blanche to get rid of Lady Danlo. In the House of Commons Sir James Fergusson moved the second reading of the Anglo-German Agreement Bill. In tho course of the debate Air Gladstone gave the Marquis of Salisbury unqualified credit for the spirit in which he had negotiated the agreement, which he thought would be generally beneficial. Mr Gladstone said he declined to discuss the cession of Heligoland, because it infringed the Royal prerogative by asking the sanction of Parliament to the cession. The Government denied that the action was unconstitutional, though they admitted it was a departure from previous practice. The debate was adjourned. The amount already subscribed in aid of the survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava exceed# L 4,000. Storms have damaged the French crops, chiefly wheat. Ou his arrival at the camp at Misch, exKing Milan took an oath declaring not to foment rebellion.

Sir Henry Parkes was out driving at Sydney yesterday for the first time since he met with his accident. The New South Wales quarterly banking returns show tho financial position to be stronger.