SECOND EDITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3293, 5 December 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

By Ejlkotric Telkoraph. — Coptoght.

<ONITRD PRRSB AflSOOlATiOtf.)

LONDON, December 8.

At a meeting of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company, the chairman said, the proposals of the Government in varying tbe terms of the contract were being done in a fair and* Intsjaeselike manner.

. A petition has bean lodge&against the return of Hon. G. H. Alsopp foe Worcester • The health officer of the port of London expresses himself confident that the ' oholera epidemio will return in the spring The Earl of Derby is improving in health. The committee over which Xiorf Ooilow presides has examined " General " SootttM with regard to the Salvation Army^ position, and are now eugsged in drifting ' a report. The . Hod. N. Gardner, P/emdenfc of the Boatd.of Agricnltnre, in replying to • depntation representing the dairy intern U, promised to enforce the fif •rgarra* Act. There is a large supply of frozen mottotf on hand, with a very poor demand:" Onff a few carcases of the Melbourne shipment ex MafiBilia have been sold ; the oonsignment realised 2fd per lb. { At the wool sales a large selection of heavy inferior Queensland wools, were offered, and weak prices were obtained, occasional buyers offering from 6£d perlb to.B}d. In other woolb there was spirited competition, but prices are unaltered.

The prioe paid by British mnseum for the original deed of purchase of tbe site of the city of Melbourne was £25.

The committee of creditors in the estate of Messrs W. Perry and Co., of Sydney, have decided to realise the assets owing to th» firm being unable to find security for the proposed composition of 7s 6d in the £ at present with a farther 3b in che £ in six months.

No more of the New South Wales treasury bids have been sold.

The Aorangi's ekim milk cheese is malodorous and realised abont 21s per owt.

It is reported that Professor Bryoe is urging tbe Cabinet to convene a Colonial Federation Conference in 1893 and tbit bis colleagues are favorable to the proposal being given effect to after tbe Royal Com* mission of Enquiry as to feasibility of tbe scheme has reported on tbe matter.

Tbe steamer Greystoke of 1867 tons, hailing from West Hartlepool has been wrecked at South Elbe, and 129 persons were drowned. FABIS, December & Wells, of Monte Carlo notoriety, hai been arrested in Havre on a charge of obtaining a snm of £50,000 from persons io London by means of fraudulent repre* eentation. M. Brisson haa failed to form a Cabinet, and M. Casaimir-Perrier has been ram* moned. SYDNEY, Dfloember.4. One of tbe principal shippers of frozen meat io Newcastle having declined t« comply with tbe demand of tbe men for Is 6d per hour in shipping meat, trouble is expected when the next vessel arrives to load.

The Attorney-General has filed a bill of murder against Makin and bis wtte, in connection with tbe death of the baby fox which tbe coroner's court found a verdiofe of manslaughter only.