NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7959, 25 January 1888, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

(Received January 21, 12.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Tuesday. The postal conference last evening decided it would bo advisable to connect Port Darwin with Burketown (Queensland) by telegraph, so that when coramunicrtion became interrupted on the trans-continental line another route via Burketown would be available. After a lengthy discussion it was resolved not to join the postal union till each colony was allowed a delegate. Strong feeling on the subject was manifested during the discussion. (Received January 21, 1.30 p.m.) The Government have decided that the regulations prohibiting the importation of stock shall bo withdrawn as recommended by the Stock Conference last year. It has transpired that the Broken Hill Silver Company have bad five smelters running out molten silver night and day since July last. The Government have determined to lease the city tramways for a long term of years on condition that the lessees guarantee the introduction of some better motor system than that at present employed. Final arrangements for the lease of the tramways will be deferred until utter the result of the experiments with the electric tramears are made known Mr B. R. Wise, Attorney-General, has received a letter from the Right Hon. John Bright, the eminent Englishman and Freetrader, in which the right hon. gentleman insists that all the facto are on the side of Freetradc. He further declares that the American Protection tariff is breaking down, and must do so unless the Protectionists can persuade the Government to spend twenty millions per annum on avmameuts. Freetrade, says Mr Bright, is the policy of wisdom «nd peace between nations. (Recoived January 24, 4.45 p.m.) The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Her Majesty the Queen, which was made by Mr J. E. Boehm, R.A., was performed by Lady Carrington to-day, in the presence of an immense crowd of spectators. The Governors of the several colonies were present, and speeches vrere delivered by Lord Carrington and Sir Henry Parkea. (Received January 21, 10 p.at.) A statement has been published that the German New Guinea Company has already paid a dividend, but it is ridiculed. ' The Press gonerally condemn the Burke-Foley exhibition. Mr D. Simpson, formerly harbor engineer in Dunedin_, was picked up in an nuconscious state in Pitt-street last night, and died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. The unveiling of the statue of Her Majesty the Queen took place in the presence of thirty to forty, thousand people. The proceedings were extremely brief and very orderly. (Received January 25, 1.20 *.m.) The work of the Postal Conference to-day was confined to hearing Mr Rowan, on behalf of the Pacific Cable Company. The representatives ef the Eastern Extension Cable Company state that the price, £120,000, at which it was stated that the company was prepared to sell ths cable between Australia and New Zealand is wrong, and that the real price at which the line was offered is £150,000. The Broken Hill South Silver Mine Company have intensified the raining excitement by their having tapped the great lode. Shares which had formerly been quoted at 24s have risen in value to £20, thus adding at one stroke a million and a half to the value of the mine.