CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1749, 8 October 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Hy Telkgraph. — jßedter's Copyright. (special to press association.) LONDON, October 5. The Mount Carrington Gold Mining Company of New South Wales has been registered with a capital of Frozen mutton ex Ormuz, from Australia, is realising 3sd per lb. New Zealand rnuttou is quoted a halfpenny higher. Papers are filled with comments on the interview between Crispi and Bismarck. It is stated that one of the results of the admission of Italy into the Anstro-German alliance is an agreement between the three powers to oppose French aggression. The Staudard Btates that the Admiralty intend to replace H.M.S. Nelson by the Orlando, a steam cruiser of 5000 tons, which is approaching completion at Barrow. A deputation from Kidderminster has presented Mr. Gladstone with a handsome carpet. They congratulated him oa his Irish meapureß, aud condemned the repressive measures adopted by the Government. Mr. Gladstone accepted the presentation, and, in thanking them for the gift, said, though he had suffered a crushing defeat in the elections of 1886, yet recent elections indicated that public opinion was rapidly changing, and he was hopeful soon of returning to power. The secession of Goschen and other Liberals had tended greatly to weaken the Liberal party, but those gentlemen were now placed in a most deplorable position, being connected with the Conservative party. Referring to the Irish question, he said the settlement of the difficulty would be speedily arrived at, and he was delighted to see that the Tories had forestalled the Liberals in briuging about that settlement. Mr. Bright has published a letter in which he says it is necessary that Irish tenants should be freed from the suspicion that they had entered into a conspiracy to encourage dishonesty and crime. Beet root sugar is quoted at 12s. LONDON, October 6. Advices from Madagascar state that the French Resident there has resumed relations with the Malagasy Government.

The Daily Telegraph warmly urges England to co-operate in the object for the Antarctic expedition.

There is intense jubilation at the alliance between Gennanj' and Italy, but France is bitterly cli igrined.

The relations between France and Italy are strained, owing to the difficulty in arranging the agreement ns to the bas-is of the renewal of thi 1 commercial treaty.

Fordham, the well-known jockey, i< seriously ill, and his condition is considered critical.