HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9022, 7 April 1888, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] THE LATE MR. S. PARKES. London, April 5. m The directors of the Bank of Australia have decided to grant the family of Mr. S. Parkes, their late manager at Melbourne, who was killed in the Windsor railway accident, £1500 per annum for five years. NEW ZEALAND MINING COMPANIES. London, April 5. The New Zealand Beach Gold Company, with £50,000 capital, and the Champion Gold and Silver Company of New Zealand, £75,000 capital, have been registered. THE AUSTRALIAN LAND AND MORTGAGE COMPANY. London, April 5. One hundred thousand three per cent, debentures issued by the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company have been subscribed. LABOUR DISPUTES IN AMERICA. London, April 6. The operatives on the railway lines centring in Chicago refuse to touch the rolling stock on the Quincy line where a strike continues. Wholesale discharges and several strikes have resulted. The situation is critical, and serious disturbances are feared. New York, April 5. A number of railway engine-men have left Chicago for New Zealand, as a result of the Chicago-Quincy strike, which still continues. DISTURBANCES IN CRETE. London, April 5. Fresh disturbances in Crete have occurred. An increased bitterness has taken place between the Turks and Christians, and the former have appealed to the Sultan for protection. TURKEY AND THE SUEZ CANAL. Constantinople, April 4. The Porte has under consideration a modified Convention, which limits the Egyptian frontier on the Red Sea to Sinai Peninsula, and gives the east ports to Turkey. BISMARCK'S BIRTHDAY. Berlin, April 4. Prince Bismarck received upwards of 2000 birthday greetings. THE PRICE OF SILVER. London, April 5. Silver has fallen a farthing, and is now quoted at 3s 6|d. LONDON WOOL SALES. London, April 5. The wool sales opened to-day. There were 9500 bales catalogued, a third being from New South Wales, and a third from New Zealand. There was a full attendance, and bidding was keen. The prices were fully equal to the closing sales in February. The stock available, including the reserve, is 340,000 bales. At the wool sales to-day the demand was good. Merinos and crossbreds realised prices equal to closing rates. " Scoured inferior was a fraction cheaper.