CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1771, 3 November 1887, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(special to fbess association.)

Lord Bandolph Churchill denies the report as to his succeeding the Marquis of Lansdowne, as Governor-General ol Canada.

LONDON, October 29.

A clerk has been robbed of £5000 worth of bonds in Threadneedle-street.

Lord Brassey's secretary denies that Lady Braesey, maddened by fever, jumped overboard.

The loan agents will consult with Sir F. D. Bell, on Thursday, with reference to unclaimed dividends.

Chief Justice Kaye has directed the compulsory winding tip of Bucknall's Gold Estate Company. It is expected that 18s in the £ will be refunded.

During a fire at the Canterbury Music Hall, 4000 people left quietly, and afterward returned.

. The Extreme left of the French Chanr ber has requested the Government o: Illinois not to exeoute tbe Chicago An archists.

LONDON, October 30. H.M.S. Thalia sails on 24th November for Australia, with relief crewß for the Rapid and Myrmidon. A consignment of New South Wales oranges by the Orient steamer Oroya arrived in prime condition, and were sold at auction at 14s per box. •Teemer beat Gaudaar by half a mile, and rows Bubear on the Thames in tbe middle of November. A Montenegrin, arrested at Varna, has confessed to being sent by a Slav committee at Odessa to murder Prince Ferdinand, M. Stambuloff, and M. Nascevics, at

tbe opening of the Sobranje, as a reward

for which he was promised 5000 napoleons and an important post in tbe Russian service. Tbe unemployed demand that tbe Metropolitan Board of Works shall erect artisans' houses forthwith, and threaten to come in thousands to compel them to acquiesce. Tbe Board has referred the matter to a committee. Sir Charles Dilke, writing in the Fort-

nightly Review, says the British Army

and Navy .are dangerously weak in case ' of invasion, - being exposed to bombard* ment of the commercial towns or loss of some ot the coaling stations. The colonies relying solely on England for war material, increases this danger. Sir H. Holland addressed a meeting at Hampstead yesterday. Referring to Mr. Gladstone's utterances on tbe Irish question, he said he was practically preaching rebellion to tbe Irish people. The effect of bis speeches was most dangerous, because a larger sense was attributed to the meaning than the actual words war-

ranted. Notwithstanding Mr. Gladstone's

agitation, the Government was determined to act firmly in its dealings with Ireland.

The failure of the Bauk of New Zealand to pay a dividend has caused a fall of £1 in the price of the shares. The Bank of Australasia, the Bank of New South Wales, and the Union Bank of Australia Bhares, and the EDglisb, Scottish, and Australasian Bank Bhares also, fell 10s. Among the companies tbe bank is stated to have assisted, tbe Financial Newß men* tions the Land and Mortgage Company, the Loan and Mercantile Agency, the Auckland Agricultural Society, the Wellington and Manawatu Railway, Waikato Land Company, and the New Zealand Shipping Company. The News farther states that the suspension of tbe payment of a dividend forebodes a day of reckoning which New Zealand has contrived to defer until tbe present. She has been a spendthrift colony, and has now reached the end of her profligate borrowing. She will find it advisable to employ new methods of managing ber finances, and new men to contool hex pofi&ca{ affairs.

Bank of New Zealand shares are quoted at £13 to £15.