CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1842, 31 January 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

[Received January 30, 1.45 p.m.]

LONDON, January 28.

Consols 102f ; New Zealand five per cent. 103J; tallow (mutton), 27s 6d ; (beef) 24s 6d. There is great enquiry for woollen sheep skins. Pig iron, 41s ; but the market is depressed. Sugar market is active, German 15s 9d per owt. Wheat market ia weak, Australian, ex Maripesa, 34s 9d, and sellers ask one shilling less for new crops. New Zealand long berried, 33s 6d ; New Zealand flour, 28s ; Russian and Indian shipments are light.

PARIS, January 28.

M. Ferrard is hopeful of a satisfactory settlement of terms of a commercial treaty with Italy.

Flourens and Lord Lytton, Britifh Ambassador, have signed the rules of a mixed commission for the control of the New Hebrides.

PESTH, January 28. The Premier, in a statement made in diet respeoting Russian military movements, said that the Government were taking Bteps to insure the satety of the frontier by placing the army in thorough efficiency.

MASSOWAH, January 28.

The Negus of Abyssinia retreated with his troops to Gundet, some distance to southwards of his former position. MADRID, January 28. Varieties Theatre in this city has been destroyed by fire.

LONDON, January 29.

Ramson Fox, of Harrowgate, has presented New South Wales with .£30,000 for the purpose of erecting a Royal College of Music.

A Bute newspaper has accused Lord Durham of cruelty and brutality, and a summons for libel has been issued against the proprietors.

NEW YORK, January 29.

A convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America has decided to prevent marriage with deceased wife's Bister.

DUBLIN, January 29.

Mr. Cox, M.P., has been sentenced at Ennis to four months hard labor for being concerned in a meeting which had be«n "proclaimed." Notice of appeal was given.

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DUBLIN, January 26.

Proceedings have been taken to quash the inquest held at Mitcheltown, in which a verdict of wilful murder was returned against County Inspector Brownrigg and Constables Kirwan, Gavan, Doran, Ryder, and Brennan, and warrants issued for their arrest. The grounds on which it is sought to xipset the inquest are that the Coroner (Mr. Rice) was partial, and that certain of the jurors were biassed, it having been shown that they were actively engaged in the riot in which the three victims upon whom the inquest was held were killed, and that therefore the inquiry was not a legal one.

A large force of police and military have been despatched to Galcorragh, as it is feared that bloodshed will result over the arrest ot Father Stephens.

LONDON, January 26.

A reredos 70 feet wide, costing £35,000, has been unveiled at St. Paul's Cathedral.

An important gold discovery is alleged to have been made at Barmoutb, a seaport town of Merionethshire, North Wales.

It is reported here that the International Exhibition which was to have been held at Brussels this year, will probably collapse.

LONDON, January 27.

Lord Augustus Loftus, iv his examination before the Bankruptcy Court, said that his expenses had always exceeded his allowance except when he held the position of British Envoy at Munich in 1862. His expenses as Governor ot New South Wales had been very heavy, as he had to entertain many so-idisant notables.

PARIS, January 26.

The French delegates have been instructed to commence fresh parleying with the Italian representatives in reference to the establishment of a commercial treaty between the two countries.