CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 9773, 1 August 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Lord Wodehouse, who resented remarks made by the chairman of an election meeting at North Walsham, and pulled him off the platform and offered to fight him, was fined £5.

The amount expended on drink in Victoria last year amounted to £3,759,000, or £3 3s per head of population. The ‘ Age ’ says that the expectation of the price of wheat continuing to improve is inducing Victorian farmers to increase the cropping area. The New South Wales Minister of Mines is advised that the Westminster Vestry have decided to lay down 100,000 wood-paving blocks.

Roche has been acquitted at Sydney on a charge of manslaughter of a girl. A man named Rons has been arrested in connection with the robbery at Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co.’s as being accessory after the fact.

A Sydney message states that no payment has to be made to the Cable Company under the guarantee for the reduction of cable rates to England owing to increase in receipts. The Very Rev. Dean Geoghegan, pioneer of the Catholic Church in Victoria, died yesterday. At the annual meeting of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce the paragraph in the report to the effect that in view of the extreme Freetrade proposals of the Government the Chamber bad modified its views on Freetrade was struck out. A majority of members held that after fighting for Freetrade so long it would be impolitic to turn back just when about to secure perfect Freetrade.

The meat market in Sydney shows a distinctly hardening tendency, and prices are advancing. Best mutton shows a rise of from 2s to 3s on last month’s quotations. Really good sheep and cattle are hard to procure. There is too much likelihood of greater scarcity if the drought continues The Graziers’ Meat Export Company of Sydney have decided to consider the question of the establishment of retail shops in London.