CABLE BREVITIES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVII, 29 April 1895, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Sydney, April 27. A conference between the two Homes on the Land Bill has arrived at a settlement. Melbourne, April 27. The direc'ors of the Central Mine at Broken Hill have offered to sell the mine to.a syndicate for L 200.000. The syndicate offured L 150.000, but It ia probable the directora 1 figures will be egreed to. Adelaide, April 27. A lunatic In Parkaide Asylum brutally murdered an attendant named Mousetou by battering his head to pieces with a spade. | Thursday Island, April 27. Reports from Hong Kong state that many thousand coolies struck work owing ti the Government enforcing the registration of coolie lodging houses. The convicts and military were engaged coaling ships and handling the cargo, but when the mail steamer left it was expected that the Btrike would Boon oollapae. Hobart, April 27. The Ft ait Growers' conference discussed the qaeßtion as to whether the English market should be concentrated in London or divided among the provinces. Sampson, the Auckland delegate, advooated the establishment of a b'ireau of commerce, and urged that subiidies paid to mail steamers should be shared with cargo boats, and favored the distribution in England through other markets In p r e-| ference to maintaining distribution centres. A proposal was made to hold the next conference in Wellingt n, and ; (See next pag:)

the New Zealand Government Is to be ipprpachedPja.the.Bubiect. .. . 1 r London, April 26. The..,tii»l of Oscar Wilde and , Taylor j has begun at 014 Briley, x .i „ . : Mark Twain visits Australia at the end of the year. „_ Jafe ;;>.: = ; . ARrll;27. ;■• InlpSneptwm with the.Adyjan'p.cs to SofctjSn^ot^Mf Ward has'iarianged, with the^R^bflJngrand to issue «o ;morrow. a 3 per cent loan of a million and a half wkfcttMnlnlmnnx o^;90. Tenders close on, 'Thursaay, 1 .".. .'" / !' ■•;■ • 'Ottawa, April 26. A fire broke ont in a .largentobacco, wavehpase in Montreal, and a panic took. place atnbng the employees in the buildIng, who numbered up.pr.ds of.-IQOO. In their mad rush to escape they blocked the Btairway, aud 50of . those imprisoned by the block, jumped from .the windows, and; thus received terrible injuries. .