CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7062, 23 July 1901, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.), (Per Press Association.) : RISE IN CONSOLS. London, July 20. Consols are quoted at 93, a rise of 7s 6d since yesterday. OBITUARY. Miss Eleanor Ormerod, the wellknown authority on agricultural entomology, is dead, BRITISH CABLE ROUTE TO INDIA. London, July 21. An inter-departmental committee is considering the question of laying a cable from Cocos Island to Ceylon, connecting with the Cape and Australian lines, and thus securing an all-British route to'lndia.

ENGLISH CRICKETERS FOR AUS. TRALIA.

Maclaren takes W.- Quaife, the Warwickshire professional, to Australia, but Fry and Forster are doubtful. -Mr A. E. Stoddart has published Shute's, Sheridan's, and Ross's letters respecting payments made to English amateur cricketers in Australia. "" SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COLONIAL STUDENTS. Owing to the excellent work done by Mr Bertram Steel, of Melbourne, and Mr Joseph Mellor, of New Zealand, who are studying at Breslau and Manchester respectively, the Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition have renewed their scholarships for the third year. STEAMERS IN COLLISION. _, ■ London, July 22. Ihe German-Australian liner Weimar^ en route to Australia, and the German steamer Caesar, bound for Antwerp, collided. The latter was so badly damaged that she had to be beached. ENGLAND AND TURKEY. Caibo, July 22. The Turkish fort seventy miles inland from Aden, which 500 British were recently sent to occupy, has been evacuated. The British demanded the surrender of the Turks. AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS. Sydney, July 22. A number of leading delegates to the recent Farmers' Convention interviewed on Federal tariff questions, were unanimous on the following points:—(l) That all revenue required be raised through the Customs; (2) that assistance be given to local industries; (3) that heavy duties be hrposed on New Zealand products until that colony federates with Australia; (4) that protection be given to the sugar industry, so that it may be carried on with white labour. THE OCEANIC STEAMERS. Referring to the statement published in Auckland that the contract between the American Government and the Oceanic Company contains a clause under which it is impossible to omit Auckland as a port of call, the managing agent of the Oceanic Company asserts that the statement is entirely wrong. A clause exists which leaves the company free to discontinue calling at a New Zealand port under certain conditions, and substituting Queensland, as suggested by Mr Ramsay before the Queensland Chamber of Commerce.