SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7790, 9 November 1886, Page 5

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[press association.] THE GOVERNMENT AND IRELAND. London, November 7. Thr Daily News states that the Government threaten to withdraw police protection from those districts inland where landlords will not moderate their demands; and, further, that they will not permit police to assist in eviction where rents are considered excessive. Sir Red vera Buller denies that the Government has refused to enforce evictions. STANLEY TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. London, November 7. Mr. H. M. Stanley, explorer, will visit Australia in February. THE GOVERNMENT OP NEW GUINEA. London, November 7. The Cabinet will consider the proposals for the government of New Guinea about the middle of November. Mr. Stanhope holds that the subvention granted by the colonies towards the government of the island is too small. He also thinks that an advance of £100,000 ought to relieve England from further cost. THE GOLD MINING MANIA, London, November 7. The following new mining companies are announced :—Red Hill, Nelson, New Zealand, capital, £150,000; Queen's, Charters Towers, Queensland, £100,000. The Economist justifies the propriety of Mr. Griffiths issuing an official warning on the subject of these mining speculations. Mr. Harold Finch Hatton admits that there are a number of shaky gold mining companies foisted on the public. THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION. London, November 7. The Cabinet, replying to a note from certain Powers, has again affirmed the eventual evacuation of Egypt, under the conditions set forth by Mr. Gladstone's Government, but declines to give a date. [RKUTKR'S TKLKORAMS.] THE VICTORIAN COMMISSIONERS. London, November 8. Mr. Bosisto, president of the Victorian Commission, returns to Melbourne via Canada early in December, and Mr. James Thomson, secretary to the same commission, sails by the Carthage. THE LONDON SOCIALISTS, London, November 6. The police authorities are making arrangements for preventing the mass meeting of Socialists, which it is proposed to hold in Trafalgar Square on the occasion of the Lord Mayor's show. THE BRENNAN TORPEDO. London, November 8. The Times states that th e Brennan torpedo has been definitely adopted. THE HOPE OF THE TRADERS. London, November 8. Mr. Louis Malet, in a letter, expresses the opinion that New South Wales is the centre and hope of a freetrade policy in Australia, and that it will be a matter for deep regret if any serious reaction in favour of protection sets in. LONDON MARKETS. London, November 5. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,570,000 quarters. Adelaide wheat is selling at 355; Adelaide flour, 24s ; New Zealand wheat, ex store, highest 335; lowest, 28s. Beef tallow, 24s 6d ; mutton tallow, 27s 6d. New Zealand mutton, 4d to sd. Colonial Government securities remain at previous quotations. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING. [PER AUSTRALIAN NKW ZEALAND SHIPPING UNDKRWRITBRS , ASSOCIATION.] London, November 6. Arrived: Ship Mary £. Russell, from Auckland, August 7.