CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2433, 22 May 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Teleqkape.— Copyright

(per press association.

MELBOURNE, May 19. The fall court decided tbat the late Dr Beaoey'B bequest of to the Corporation of Canterbury, in England, was invalid. Tbe money therefore reverts to the Melbourne hospital, university, and looal charities. , The Premier, speaking on (he question of federation, referred to tbe present financial calamities, and eaid he was prepared to go tbe length of suggesting tbat if any doubt was created abont the credit of any one colony Australia sbould unite in defeaoe of that colony, and aid it to meet its obligations and npbold its credit with the outside world. The Solicitor-General is considering Davis and Milledge's case. Ho ia invested ; with equal power to the Attorney-General. The Rev. Marshall Lang, of Glasgow, h&s been elected Moderator of the Estab lished Church of Scotland. The Daily News stflJtes 'that Parliament is expected to adjourn in abont two months — probably at tbe end of July. LONDON, May 19. At a meeting of the British Broken Hill Company the Chairman said the ore was only yielding 12 to 15 oz. per ton. If the poor quality was found to continue tbe furnaces would have to be closed. It was agreed to endeavor to sell tbe property at a price which would satisfy shareholders.