CABLE NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 190, 7 December 1896, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(/'. r ,/w« Londox, DOC. 4. The wool market is cjiiieter, but prices are unchanged. Cheese, e\ Aotea from New Zealand, is realising 4Gs pef cwt. December 5. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Mr Ldward Martin, chairman, in his :uldre<s believed that the whole of the deficits referred to in the report occurred prior to the new company being formed. I"here had, he said, been no" depreciation since, and the Board was now discussing a readjustment of the capital account. The policy of the company was not to acquire new properties, but to consolidate and improve existing ones. A severe sourh-east gale was experienced at Brighton, and the chain pier carried away. Mr A. A.' Miles has been appointed manager of the (ieorge \\ eb-ter estate and a member of his firm proceeds to Australia to administer it. Some of the Unionist papers in London condemn the action of Mr Greene, the new Resident- at Pretoria. Dec. 0. At the wool sales prices are easier. Be>t merinos and have declined slightly, as the American competition is less keen. H\Mnri:<;, Dec. 4. A general strike has been proclaimed hen ,' and 10.0(H) laborers have gone out. It is feared that the lenders in Antwerp will adopt similar measures. A hundred Berlin police have been sent lure to assist in preserving order. Dec. G. The employers state that the dockers of Kngland have advised acceptance of the terms ottered, as there is only a sembhnce of success, and that the men had better prospects when Tom Mann organised the ports on the Continent. Bf.ulin, Dec. G. The trial of two local newspaper men revtaled a conspiracy to injure Marshal Von P.iek-rstcin, Foreign Secretarv, by foreign officials through newspaper articles. lierr _ Tauch. Chief Secretary of Police, is said to be the chief otlieer implicated. His agent, Lut/.ow, an editor, has confessed that, under directions, he published an article alleging that Count \ on Lulenberg spread a false version of the Czar's speech at Breslau in the interests of Great Britain, and declaring' that Marshal \on Bieberstoin desired the fact known.

I'.uus. Doc. 1. Several French newspapers consider that the decision of the Court »'>■ the Caisse de la Dette is a judicial victory —the diplomatic defeat of France—by which Great Britain obtains a mortgage over Egypt, and will thus postpone the evacuation of the country. liettll! AY, Dec. 1. Several Europeans have died here from the plague. PiiKToniA. I'eo. Mr Conyngham Greene, formerly Secretary to the British Legation in Teller,in, and who -ucceeded Sir .lacol»ns de Wei as I'.ritish Agent here, has declined to receive from the British residents an address, as he objects to the expression contained therein hoping that he would assist in maintaining the supremacy of the Empire. Shanghai, 1 >ec. Loll Fing, who has been Li Hung Chang's interpreter, has been appointed Chinese Envoy to England. Biiussei.s, Dec. o. The Chamber of Deputies has rejected the motion tabled condemning the attitude of the Government in expelling from Antwerp the British labor delegates who were advocating a strike. The members of the Government intimated that they were determined foreigners should not be allowed to disturb the peace. Rome, Dec. ~>. The Government has decided to send a punitive expedition to Somaliland. Cairo, Dec. ~>. The tribes in southern Soudan strongly desire an advance of the British troops. Melbourne, Dec. 0. Lord Brassey purposes to visit New Zealand at the end of the Parliamentary session, and will be absent about six weeks. At the cycling carnival the weather was fine, and there was an enormous attendance. The following were the results of the chief races :—Austral: Kellow, 15vds, 1; "\\alne, 20yds, 2 ; Elliott, 1 ."Oyds, 8. Won easilv by ten lengths : time, -lmin 29sec, which is a record for the race. Fives-mile International Scratch Bace ; Ken Lewis, 1; Kulile. 2 ; Porta, 8. The winner came through with a splendid spurt in the last half lap and won by the length of a machine. Time, 12min 25 4-sth sec. Adelaide, Dec. 5. Since the commencement of the drought on July 1 the rainfall registered at the observatory has been 3-841 inches. The general average for the same period in the previous 57 years was 10153 inches.