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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9267, 29 April 1892, Page 2

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(Reoeived April & l6.fi) a.mj London, April 27. Sir E, C. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, read an admirable hi-torioai paper on Australia at the mwtirig ]td tha Society of Arts. '. ! "' ' The Miners' National Union have held » a conference at Durham, at wMeh a resolution was passed in favor of a week of -vodsjrsforali trades.- ? ;;.r,; ,v.t_. Mr O. Morris, assistant director of tha Royal Bo^nfoi"?ai»ifl_s t}.;M_vir, reports, that some samples of oared Fijian ginger prepared by the curator at Suva are worth. 42s per' owt. He advises that further efforts should be made to establish thia industry. The Queen visits the Queen oi Holland on her homeward journey. - _ _• The Timet thinks that before the proposal by the Canadian Government] of a preferential tariff itt favor of British goods pan be accepted it wiU be nefless-ry ior South Africa and Australia to JobIt will be impossible to make such arremanent with a single colony : bnt at the same time the offer is most^grsiifying. ' ;. -. „ Y-u-j (Reoeived April 88, noon.) _ . Obituary-Sir James Joseph Allport, J.P., of Dnffleld, Derby. The _«w_st« gentleman was a director of __*r,li".d"---Koilwsy Company. The total quantity of. wheat jucid flour afloat for the United Kingdom U 3,908,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,332,000 quarters. * '■'■ Bank of New Zealand shares are^uoted at £7 tor New and £6 18a for oldj National Bank df New Zealand, £1. (Reoeived April 33, 8 pirn.) " In an article in the Contemporary Review Sir Henry Parke* e-pamtaa hto unbelief iv the success- of Mr Di-bt'a barren Protection polioy, the aqwn-to of which have "been ef a nondeeenpt «"» coninsed ebaraoter. Sir Henry tbbke that tbe new tariff, which he considers to be a monstrous, wanton, and fruitless interference with the trade of tho colony, is certain to be repealed by tbe volcaal. -^ the people at the next general elMtioß. New South Wales wool, wtftani qaslity, is slightly easier, while fta* from the other colonies is unchanged. The American visible wheat supply la estimated at 151,700,000 bushels, • The bill introduced into the House ol Commons by Bir A. K» RolUt, the member for Islington, to confer the franchise on women, was thrown out On the motion for ita second wading by _ majority of 88. The ship Theophane, wMob left Newcastle for Meliindi, South Atneriea, fa December Iwt, has bees posted at Lloyd'a as lost. " : ' . _. Mr J. H. Tritton, <~afrmau >of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, Limited, states that the business done by the company since the rate* have been reduced to the Australian coloniea U sufficiently satisfactory to jnstify the company giving that route another yeartrial. (Reoeived April ffl, U. 45 a.n_) April W. Mr Tom M'Carthy, president 'ot the Dockers' Union, declares that' fc'genet-l - strike of London dockers is immfaent.