BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8364, 15 November 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

BRIEF MENTION.

Anxiety ia felt by the Newcastle miners that the proposed reduction in the selling price of coal will canse a proportionate reduction in their wages. Fine rains have fallen throughout New South Wales, and an unusually good season is predfcted. The maize crop in the north will be very heavy, but wheat in the same part is largely affected with rust. Grasshopper* are causing great destruction out west, and a railway train was stopped for several hoars through the insects on the line.

The rate of exchange will be raised per cent, in London to-day. The New York money market is still feverish.

The Bank of England has regained thorough control of the money market, Heavy sales of consols have been effected. Frozen beef is dearer. Quotations for frozen mutton and lamb are unchanged. New Zealand hemp is in poor demand. About 200 bales have been sold at a decline of L 3 per ton. After the sale prices recovered.

The shipping companies have completed arrangements for placing Auckland and Port Chalmers in direct monthly communication with England, commencing at the New Year.

Sir George Grey is ill. The Rev. J. Hinton, of Caversham, has been elected president of the Baptist Union, which will meet in Wellington. The death is announced of Major-general C. Pasley, who served on the staff of General Pratt in New Zealand in 1860, when he was severely wounded. A Bill submitted to the Federal Council of Germany abolishes the sugar bounties, aud substitutes a tax of 22 marks per 100 kilos. Exported sugars are exempted from the tax.

By the casting vote of the returning officer, Mr Bunting has been re-elected for Wakari riding of the Taieri County, The colonies are asked to notify if they are desirous of participating in the renewal of England’s commercial treaties. Tho average attendance at the George street School last month was 748.

By a fire at Auckland yesterday the South British Office lose L 390.

James Mirams, ex-managing director of the Premier Building Society, has been convicted of falsifying the company’s books. William Doaherty (ex-secretary) and two others were acquitted of tho same charge. Mirams was admitted to bail, pending his trial for conspiracy.