CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1840, 28 January 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY, January 27.

The Postal Conference has concluded. The general feeling is against the construction of the Pacific cable, on the ground of the long term for which the subsidy. The decisions of the conference not requiring legislation will come into operation at oace.

[Received January 27, 10.30 p.m.]

LONDON, January 26. At the Antwerp wool sales prices were maintained.

Lord Augustus Loftus has been examined before the court of bankruptcy. He states that the cause of his insolvency was his being compelled to expend large sums of money outside his salary as Governor, in entertaining tbe Governors of the Australian colonies and other notabilities during their visit in Sydney to the exhibition. There were also a large number of distinguished gentlemen at the Sydney conference, and in entertaining those gentlemen he had spent a large sum. He explained that his private expenditure was small. The Land Company of Australasia has been placed with a capital of upwards of £180,000,

SYDNEY, January 27.

Tho intercolonial cricket match between New South Wales and Victoria was continued to-day ; there was a very large attendance. The New South Wales team commenced their first innings, and have lost three wickets for 269 runs. The highest scorers are : Macdonnell, 42 ; Mosos, not out, 147 ; Burton, not out, 47. Macdonnell was missed the first ball.

At the Clarencetown races to-day, two horses fell, and one of the jockeys was killed. The other had his shoulder dislocated.

MELBOURNE, January 27. The Wesleyan Conference to-day decided that the time had not yet arrived for the union of all Methodist bodies.

Both the Argus and Age recommend that great caution should be exercised in adopting the scheme of M. Pasteur for the introduction of chicken cholera to exterminate rabbits, Out if the scheme proved successful, it should be recognised as a great boon.

SYDNEY, January '24. [Received January 28, 1.50 a.m.]

At Government Houso this ovoning there was a grand dinner party, which was largely attended. All tho notabilities were present.

Lillywhite's cricket team havo been tit Orange, playing a team of twenty-two, which they easily defeated by an innings and 70 runs.

Dunlop is now installed first favorito for the Anniversary Handicap, but tho betting is slack, as it has been all along.

Sailed — the Union Company's Mararoa for Auckland this afternoon.

MELBOURNE, January 27.

The Minister of Lands states that it is probable tbat the Government will remove the order prohibiting the importation of stock into Victoria, but every precaution will be adopted to prevent the introduction of disease. '

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LONDON, January 23.

The Greeks resident in Londbn celebrated Lord Byron's centenary by a special service at the Greek Church at London Wall. The ceremony was of a most impressive nature, the Grand Te Deum being sung.

Mr. H. F. Beaumont, Liberal M.P. for Colne Valley, Yorkshire South, has been requested by his constituency to i'ulfiil the pledges given by him, that he would resign his seat when he felt unable to con* tinue to support Mr. Gladstone.

Three hundred Welsh clergymen have passed a resolution condemning coercion in Ireland.

DUBLIN, January 28.

A large crowd assembled at Kilrush and publicly burned tbe proclamation prohibiting a meeting there.

The bonfires which were lighted to celebrate Mr. W. O'Brien's release from gaol were quenched by the police.

St. PETERSBURG, January 23.

All goods traffic has been suspended on the railways of Southern Russia, as all available rolling stock is required lor the conveyance of troops and stores.

CONSTANTINOPLE, January 23

News bas been received here tbat the troops at Erzeroum are being reinforced, and the defences of the place are being attended to.

WASHINGTON, January 23. Obituary — Mrs. Garfield, mother of the late President Garfield.

MADRID, January 23.

A British Embassy has been created here instead of a Ministry, and the Queen-Regent, in receiving the newlyappointed Ambassador, expressed a strong desire for a closer union between Spain and Great Britain.

VIENNA, January 23.

A Hungarian Judge, who was travelling in the north, was beset by wolves. During the flight the sleigh struck a tree stump, and the Judge was thrown out and eaten by the wolves. The driver of the sleigh, who was accompanied by his son, held on his way, still pursued by the animals, and as the latter gained upon the fugitives, the father, in order to save his own life, threw out the boy. By this means the father escaped, but was arrested for murder.

LONDON, January 25.

It is asserted that the Russian Legation at Bucharest has been ordered to break off relations with Roumania, on the ground of the wrongful arrest of a Russian official and his subsequent release without any explanation.

It has asserted that Lord Randolph's head has been turned with the flattering attentions shown to him during his visit to Russia, and that he is returning to England full of anti-German projects.

A remarkable telephonic experiment has just been tried. Mr. Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette, held a conversation with a representative despatched on a tour round the world on behalf of that paper from Vancouver. The circuit was 15,000 miles, the longest ever worked, and the experiment lasted for three hours, the longest interval being four minutes.

Bulgarian affairs are attracting a good deal of attention in political circles, and a general rising against Prince Ferdinand is anticipated.

The Rt. Hon. G. J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Hastings, stated that the Government did not intend to tax corn. He denied that there was any discord in the Cabinet, and believed there never was a more united Ministry. The assertion that the Marquis ot Hartington had sought to modify the local government measure was a pure invention.

The Times states that the American Tariff Bill which is being drafted will exempt ores, coarse wools, dyes, chemicals, timber, and salt. The bill will re-adjust, without materially changing, the wool duties. The duty on sugar will be reduced 25 per cent., and on rails four dollars.

Lord Brassey, in a letter, deprecates the alienation of public lands in the colonies.

A representative of the Pall Mall Gazette has had an interview with the London manager of Knelling and Hunt, fruit importers, which elicited a prediction that there was a great future for Australian fruit.

SOFIA, January 24.

Prince Ferdinand is on a visit to Philippopolis, and has met with a cordial reception.

BERLIN, January 24.

A military loan of 250,000,000 marks has been submitted to the Federal Council.

Lord Eandolph Churchill affirms that the feeling in St Petersburg is distinctly a pacific one.

CHICAGO, January 24.

Intelligence has been received here of a daring robbery in Indiana. Four masked men stuck up the bank, murdering the cashier, who resisted them. After securing the plunder they bolted, but were pursued by an armed force, and two of their number were shot dead and the others captured.

St. PETERSBURG, January 24.

General Gourko has reported that Poland is unfit to be basin of an oftensive war, but is capable of affording an excellent defence. He estimates that twenty millionj roubles will be required to complete its defences.

CONSTANTINOPLE, January 24.

Ismail Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt, has formally abandoned his claims against the British and Egyptian Governments in respect to the property of which he alleged he was deprived at the time of his abdication. He has also renounced the allowance maile to him by the Turkish Government, and has accepted palaces equivalent to a million and a quarter, and £100,000 in cash.