CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1846, 4 February 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

[Received February 3, 2 p.m.]

SYDNEY, February 3.

The fund being raised by the Wesleyans in honor of the Centennial of Australia has reached the sum of £10,000, and subscriptions are still coming in.

Hon. B. B. Wise has been compelled, owing to private business, to resign his position of Attorney- General. It is expected that Sir Robert Wisdom will succeed him, and that he will take charge of the Government business in the Legislative CouAcil.

Hearn will shortly return to New Zealand.

All the rabbiters in the employ of the Government, along with inspectors in the rabbit department, have received notice that at the end of three months the Government intend to dispense with their services. This step has been taken, as the Government intend to throw upon land owners the responsibility of exterminating rabbits, but the Government are willing to give them all reasonable assistance in doing so. The subject is to be dealt with in a Land Bill this session.

PERTH (W.A.), February 3.

Sic Henry Holland's despatch re responsible government has been well received in all parts of Western Australia. The only point about which there is much difference of opinion is the suggested line at which Imperial control should end and responsible government commence.

ADELAIDE, February 3.

An astonishing rise has taken place in the Broken Hill Silver-mine Company's shares. On Wednesday night, shares were selling at £320 per share ; by noon yesterday they had risen to £370, and during the afternoon holders were asking £410. Though no sales were recorded at that figure, it is impossible to buy below that price. Nineteen pounds only has been paid up per share in this mine. Last year the dividends were at the rate of 30a per month. No reason is assigned for the fresh rise in the price of Broken Hill shares, but the advance may be due to anticipated receipts from the sale of portions of the lease of the mine to English capitalists.

The wheat market is dull at 3s 2d ; shippers and farmers' lots, 2s lOd ; export, 3s ; flour, roller made, £8 15s per ton ; oats, 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; sugars, quiet, the price firm at last quotations.

Letters to hand from Canton merchants per China Steam Navigation Co.'s Tsinan, which is now in quarantine with five cases of small-pox on board, warn friends here to look out for small-pox, as it is very prevalent in Hong Kong, Canton, and Maco. Several of the Cable Company's clerks are down with the contagion.

[Received February 4, 1.30 a.m.]

SYDNEY, February 8.

Lillywhite has received a cable from London stating that any number of good players can be got for the football team which is about to visit the colonies. MELBOURNE, February 3. The Geelong Cup was won by Gardenia ; Mentor, 2 ; E. 8., 3.

The Tramway Trust has decided to raise a new loan of i! 250,000.

Typhoid fever is very prevalent here, and is increasing.

LONDON, February 2.

At a private meeting, at which 100 exporters were present, a committee was appointed to devise means to breakup the existing monopoly ring.

A company termed the Pacific Islands Trading Company, with a capital of £120,000, has been registered. The object of the company is to purchase the Island business of Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane, of Auckland.

(special to press association.)

LONDON, January 31. Jem Smith has issued a challenge to Sullivan for a fight to the finish.

The Hon. W. H. Smith, in a speech, announced that the Government would introduce a measure next session, having for its object the simplification of tithes. He argued that the Irish policy of the Government was the best that could be pursued under the existing circumstances, and they intended to persevere with it. He repudiated the idea of a return to Protection, but thought that the Government would probably agree to the conversion of Consols.

DUBLIN, January 31.

Eleven Irishmen have been imprisoned for terms varying from one to three months tor participating in unlawful assemblies.

Another outrage has occurred at Tralee. A farmer who had been boycotted and was under police protection has been found brutally murdered.

BERLIN, January 31.

Herr Bebel, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, asserts that there are German police agents m every European capital, and that those in London incited Germans to join in the Trafalgar-square riots.

CALCUTTA, January 81.

A British regiment has been sent from one of the northern stations to aßsisb in openiDg up the road to Thibet, which has been practically closed by gangs of Thibetan marauders.