CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1819, 4 January 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(EEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) LONDON, December 31

The wheat market has firmly maintained its closing prices. The English and foreign sorts show an advance of 6d per quarter. Californian cargoes in transit are quoted at 355. Indian sorts are scarce. Russian and American are quote! at slightly over the current rates. Australian consignments on the spot are quoted at 355. One cargo in an iron ship has been sold for 34s 9d per quarter. The flour market is hardening, but there is very little of Australian sorts in hand.

Fifty thousand Russian troops are massed on the frontiers of Bessarabia.

Count Schouvaloff has assured the Emperor of Germany of friendly relations between Russia and Germany.

Orders have been given to the French rifle factories to work day and night to complete orders for repeating rifles. ZANZIBAR, December 30.

Seyyid Bargash Bin Said, the Sultan of Zanzibar, has ceded to the British and East African Association for 50 years the sovereign rights of 200 miles of the coast line, in order to facilitate the opening of trade to the interior of Africa. PARIS, December 31.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the New Hebrides question was discussed, when the Deputy from St. Etienne expressed an opinion that the equal division of the island between England and France was the only logical solution of the dim cully.

MELBOURNE, December 31

News has been received here that a French protectorate has been formally proclaimed over Wallis Island, the French resident, M. Chaurot, having been appointed Prime Minister.

The latest reports from Kimberley continue very encouraging. Several large nuggets have recently been unearthed.

The conference of the PostmasterGenerals of New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria will probably meet at Sydney about the middle of January. With reference to the question of cable rates, it is pointed out that New Zealand, daring last year, received more cables than South Australia, but the former colony contributes nothing to the subsidy which is paid to the company. It is expected, therefore, that the Australian Governments will take measures for their protection by imposing restrictions on jnessages for New Zealand. The last letter^frosn Mr. Jno. Pender, Chairman of the Eaßterp^Gxtension Cable Company, to the Ne^^^Bj^d Government has been pubi*° et -s|^^^Mfc|^iow indicates that the tan^^^^^^H^dby one shilling a word,^^^^^^^^^Bkri^nd New South l^^^^^^^^^^^^^K Eastern Comn^^^^^^^^^^^^J

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[Received January 4, 1.35 a m.]

LONDON, January 2. The British revenue for the quarter shows a decrease of £430,000 pounds.

Mr. Parnell has recovered from his recent illness, and will at once resume the active leadership of the Irish national party.

Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, who is at present at Rome, is endeavoring to neutralise the mission of the Duke of Norfolk as far as it concerns Irish affairs. Several papers state that Mr. Gladstone intends to visit Rome for a similar purpose.

LONDON, January 3. H.M.S. Hercules, an ironclad, has grounded at Ferrol, near Corunna, Spain, and is reported to be sinking.

It is believed that the Government intend to suppress the National League in the counties of Dublin and Meath. The renewed proposals which have been made respecting the Canadian-American fisheries dispute are likely to lead to an agreement being arrived at. SYDNEY, January 3.

One thousand guests are expected to be present at the Centennial Banquet the preparations for which are on a splendidly extensive scale. All the Governors of the colonies, excepting Fiji, have accepted an invitation to be present and favorable replies have been received from nearly all the prominent colonial. MELBOURNE, January 3.

The cricket match, Vernon's team against Australian eleven, was concluded to-day, and was won by the former by an innings and 78 runs.

PARIS, January 3.

All the ■ leading journals admit that Russia has massed a quarter of a million of infantry, 25,000 cavalry, and 800 guns on the Austrian frontier. VIENNA, January 3. The Pesther Lloyd says that it is unwise to allow Russia time to prepare for war. [Received January 1, at 5.50]

SYDNEY, December 81.'

The Government oppose the proposal

to exterminate rabbits by inoculating the animals with a virulent disease, and will

take steps to impose heavy penalities on anyone introducing rabbits so inoculated to the colony.

[Received January 2, at 1.30 a.m.]

HONG KONG, December 30.

Intelligence has been received from Amoy of a disastrous explosion of a magazine in that city. Several hundred lives were lost, and a quarter of the town destroyed. PHILADELPHIA, December 30. The Knights of Labor Society have ordered tbe resumption of the strike on the Philadelphia-Reading Railway, but only a few are complying with the order. [Received January 3, at 8.30 p.m.]

BUNOES AYRES, January 1.

The meat export bounties fixed by the

Argentine Government will amount annually to a quarter of a million dollars

on cattle and beef, and fifty thousand in frozen mutton.