By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1915, 27 April 1888, Page 2

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, April 25.

Tin is declining. Australian is quoted at £165 17s 6d. Leather is quoted from 10i|d to lid ; pig iron, 38s 9d ; New Zealand fives, 105.

SYDNEY, April 25.

Smith, one of the principal witnesses in the Mt. Rennie outrage, while in Batburst gaol, awaiting sentence on a charge of arson for which he had been convicted, came face to face with Donnelan, a youth concerned in the Rennie outrage, but whose sentence of death had been commuted, when the latter rushed at Smith and attempted to strangle him. The gaol warders overpowered Donnelan, and removed Smith to a place of safety.

The risks held by New Zealand offices on the premises and stock of Barlow Bros., seriously damaged by fire last night, were: — New Zealand office, i-4700 ; South British, £1000. The extent of the damage is £7500.

SYDNEY, April 26

Resolutions have been passed by the Chamber of Commerce and the Royal Geographical Society, asking tbat the Imperial Government should accord Mr. Bevan some tangible recognition for the advantages accruing to sci9nce and commerce for hiß important explorations of New Guinea.

In tbe House last evening, the Treasurer stated tbat the centennial celebrations in January last cost i-26,000.

An exceedingly rich discovery of cblorides is reported at Broken Hill, South

Block, yielding a high per centage of silver.

MELBOURNE, April 26.

Sailed — Killarnoy, for New Zealand.

Tbe harbor trust is coinrnunicating with the Admiral t}', with a view of having Hobson's Bay re-surveyed. NEWCASTLE, April 26. Arrived — Acacia, from Dunedin.