SECOND EDITION. CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3289, 30 November 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— ComiQHT.

(UNITED PRESS AS8OCIAIuO».)

LONDON, November 28. A shipment of Victorian motion by the X.M.S. Maasilla is pronounced superior to New South Wales article,'.' and will probably bring from 8d to ftjd. Con* signees urge that the frozen lamb should be sent Home headless, ; * - ". The Dnke of Sutherland intends to contest bis late father's will. Imperial Parliament meets on January 81st.

At tbe wool sales there is a brisk competition for all descriptions ; for Eiverina wool the bidding was excited. There is good competition by continental buyers, on acconnt of the ,Home trade being quiet. Tbe prices realised show an increase of 2\ per cent., as compared with those ruling on tbe opening night.

The wheat market is rather ilow, bat tbe week closed steadier.

Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, First Commissioner of Works, informed a deputation of unemployed which waited upon him that tbe Government shortly intended to erect buildings in London at a cost of £800,000.

Indignation is expressed in many quarters of tbe city at the breaob of faith on tbe part of the New South Wales Government in trying to raise treasury bills in London, while announcing that tbey intended only to borrow locally. Tbe bills are now being hawked about the city, and attempts to dispose of them are almost fruitless. The brokers, wbo on Friday, desired to take them, now refnse to do so, and it is believed that less than £250,000 worth w iff he .paid in the London and Westminster Bank. It, however, still hopes to be able to place the balance in the coarse of three or foar days. t

LONDON, November 29.

Arrival — B. and C, a barque, from Bluff (July 28) ; Snowdrop, barque, from Timaru (July 24).

Mr. Leaby states that the leading fonr manufacturers who expressed their willing* neßs to supply capital for the construction of iron and steel works at Wallerawang, in New South Wales, withdraw from the undertaking, owing to tbe miners' strike at Broken Hill, and they are now only willing to supply plant for two furnaces capable of producing 800 tons of pig iron per. week npon modified conditions. Mr. Leatby is considering the new proposal.

Obituary— Mr. Alexander Broaden, iron master.

Mellwraith and MoEaobera, a Queensland firm, have sent a circular to shippers using tbe Saez Canal to ascertain whether tbey are in favor of establishing a depot at Port Said for Australian meat. The Admiralty have replied, suggesting that when contracts fall in in March purchasers of Australian meat should tender. Private shipping firms are in favor of obtaining supplies from such a dep6t ' as that proposed.

CALCUTTA, November 28.

The Ameer of Afgbanatan provided the usurper of the Ghitral throne with fire* arms.

WASHINGTON, November 29.

President Harrison will make a tour of Europe next year for the purpose of study, ing tbe labor question, PAEIS, November 28. M. Laubet, Premier, bae resigned. PARIS, November 29. President Garnot has accepted' M. Loubet's resignation. SYDNEY, November 29.

The seamen of the ship Fort Glasgow, who were seDtenoed to a month's im* prisonment for disobeying an order of the captain, have been released from gaol under a section of the Act* which permits the captain ol a vessel to demand that his men eball be sent back totbejt ship. An important discovery 'of silver hat bsen made in the Australian Consols Mine at Broken Hill, bat it is not known at

present whether it will excel in richness the find made last Tear. MELBOURNE, November 29. A quantity of Danißb butter, which was tent out at the instance of tbe Government, has arrived iD excellent condition. SYDNEY, November 80. Io tbe Legislative Assembly a motion was earned in favor of introduoiau a bill to Abolish barmaids and permitting hotels to have only one bar.