CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2417, 3 May 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright

(per press association.

LONDON, April 30. The Hull dookers are depressed, and many of them are famishing. Tallow— Medium mutton, 28s; beef,

The total quantity of wool catalogued np to date is 810,000 bales. Medium and lower sorts have an upward tendenoy, bnt tbe weakness in the best sorts is more apparent. The series closes on Wednesday. Ten per cent, of the Duke of Devonshire's beef, from Townsville, is damaged.

LONDON, May 1. Mr Paltiohet -Martin's "Life and letters of Loxd Sherbrook " has just been published by Messrs Longman. The press refer to it as a good, solid historical work.

The dookers 1 strike in London has fizzled out.

Seventy persons have been poisoned in Hanelly, South Wales, by eating brawn ; one case has resulted fatally. The Ist May Arbor processions in the Continent have passed o2 quietly. In a letter to a city newspaper a Queensland farmer eaye the Government gulls people in Great Britain to emigrate to Queensland to starve.

ROME, May 1. Rev. Dr. James Fraaer Turner, formerly Anglican, Bißhop of Grafton, New South Wales, has died here.

RIO DE JANEIBO, May 1. Ia an engagement between the Government troops and the insurgents in Rio Grande, 700 were killed, half of whom were rebels. Both tbe Government and insurgents claim to have secured a victory.

ALBANY, May 2. Arrived— Australia, from Plymouth. Passengers for New Zealand—Mr and Mrs Anslave, Oapt. and Mrs Cockburn, Messrs Busby, Tonkins, Drysdale, and Dawson (2).