CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1837, 25 January 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph. — Reoter's Copyright.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION).

[Received January 24, 9 p.m.] LONDON, January 23. Sir F. D. Bell will have an interview with M. Pasteur relative to tbe risk of chicken cholera affecting other animals than rabbits. Mr. F. H. Danger, formerly of New South Wales, intends to give a bauquet to colonists, at the Oriental Club, to celebrate the centennary of New South Wales. The capital cf the company to take over BasB 1 brewery haß been subscribed fifteenfold. Mr. Cox, M.P. for East Clare, who was summoned to appear at Ennis on a charge of attending meetings which had been proclaimed but failed to appear, has been arrested here. No sales are reported of Australian wheat cargoes. SAN FRANCISCO, January 23. The final appeal of Maxwell, who murdered Preller some eighteen months ago, and has been confined in gaol under sentence of death, has resulted fruitlessly and he will now be executed. LONDON, January"24. The Celtic Chief, bound to Albany, came into collision with and sank tbe German Barque in the British Channel. The crew were saved. The Celtic Chief sustained but little iojury and returned to Falmoutb. The European beet crop is estimated to yield 2,300,000 tons. Consols, 102£ ; Chilian copper isjquoted at £77 15s per ton. ! The English wheat market has declined sixpence. The American market has an upward tendency. The Antwerp wool sales have opened at a general advance of from Id to l£d. SAN FRANCISCO, January 22. Arrived, to-day— the steamer Zealandia, from Auckland. Mr. Walter Gibson, of Hawaii, died to-day. PARIS, January 23. The wounds which Louise Michel received while addressing the meeting at Havre are not so serious as at first supposed. MELBOURNE, January 23. The Age advocates, in the interests of farmers, an additional import duty on fat stock imported into Victoria. [Received January 24, 10 p.m.] SYDNEY, Jannary 24. A statement has been published that the German New Guinea Co. has already paid a dividend, but it in ridiculed. The press generally condemn tbe Burke-Foley exhibition. Mr. D. Simpson, formerly harbor engineer in Dunedin, was picked up in an unconscious state in Pitt-street last night, and died shortly aiter being admitted to tbe hospital. Tbe unveilling of the statue of Her Majesty tbe Queen took place in presence of thirty or forty thousand people. The proceedings were extremely brief and very orderly. BRISBANE, January 14. A rise in quotations for sugar is expected before the end of the month.