LATE CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 17

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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(PE® TRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 12. "Victoria lias ordered one of the Lalioski pneumatic dvnamit9 guns, just successfully tried at iMew York. The Agents-General are urging Lord Knutsford to amend Lord Herschel’s Liability of Trustees Bill in the direction of allowing trustees to invest fuuds in colonial inscribed stock without the sanction of Court. The Lord Chancellor states that the Judges are arranging a list of suitable investments for Chancery funds.- Personally he is in favor of the inclusion of all inscribed stocks. Lord Salisbury favors increased latitude being given to trustees in the matter of investing moneys at their disposal. Sir Duncan Cameron is dead. Consols, 102 f. The market rate of discount is 1-f- below Bank rato t which is now 2| percent. The wheat market is gat and prices for off-coast cargoes have declined. Australian wheat is quoted at from to 83s 6d. Australian flour, ex store, is quoted at from 24s 6d to 255. Tin is quiet at LSI 10s. Leather is advancing, best aides being now qnoted at lljd to ll^d. Bar silver La. B #elined an eighth, and is n.?W quoted at 3s 6d. Frozen meat is in good demand. Hew'" Zealand 4 per, cent, inscribed stock is still advancing, the present quotation being 99£. Arrived —Ship (Auckland, May 1), baraue Jpamenoth (Port Chalmers, Sydney, June 13. The reasons given for not admitting the press to the Chinese Conference were that the Victorian delegates were anxious to quickly and it was thought that if' tfio press were admitted set speeches lyoujd be delivered, and the Conference unduly protracted. Ipnth, the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph eonfiemn the course Adopted, as wilfully destroying the influence and power of the Conference. Mr 3?jsh % the Tasmanian delegate, said he was willing to co-operate with the other delegates, but so far as Tasmania was concerned, the Government there thought further restrictive legislation unnecessarj r . If the Conference decided on joint legislation then the Tasmanian Parliament may agree to a more restrictive measure. He considered the action of the Home Government perfectly correct, and he saw no reason for complaint. Mr Gillies, Premier of Victoria, favors limiting the influx,' but thinks the diplomatic influence of England would effect more than any drastic measures proposed by the Conference. The motion of Mr H. Copeland, M.A., for New England, to increase ' the import duties on agricultural produets, was negatived by 48. to 35, /Sailed— I The s.s. "Waihorn, for YVel lington, with 12 Chinese. The Guthrie has sai.led with 85 retained Chinese. Tbp Qhineae Conference to-.day ’ agreed to the following resolutions : : —- •! That the further restriction, of Chinese immigration, is. essential to the welfare of the people of Australasia;; that the necessary restrictions wijl be beßt seryed by diplomatic acfioo OB the part of the Imperial Government and by uniform / legislation by the coloniesthafr the colonies shopldf make- a, jjOint representation on, the subject to - mperial Government, and that a Bill be drafted embodying the foregoing resolutions. Messrs Deakin, Kingston and Macroaaan were appointed the committee to draw up a remonstrance and prepare the Bill, and were instructed that the provisions of the Bill should be made to apply to all / Chinese, whether British subjects or not; that each vessel should nob carry more than one passenger for every 500 tons, and that the influx of Chinese from one colony to another should be made a misdemeanor. Sailed—Zealaudia, for San. Francisco, via Auckland. Sir Saul Samuel is a passenger. Couktown, Juno 18. The German Consul declares Juliut the sole port of entry for the German Protectorate over the Marshall Inlands, and announces that offenders against this regulation will be liable to a fine of 6000 ma-k?, and the confiscation of their vessels.

Perth, Juno 13. An English, American, and colonial syndicate is negotiating.with the Government to construct a railway to connect tho present line with the South Australian railways, on the land grant system. '.I he coot is estimated at L 4,000,000, aud .the construction will take over ten years. Brisbane, June 13.

The exhibition building in Bowen Park, in which the annual exhibitions of the Queensland National Association are held, was destroyed by fire this morning, the damage being estimated at £7OOO. The annual exhibition was to have been held in August next, but fortunately no exhibits had come to hand. The building is insured in'nearly all the offices. The New Zealand Insurance Company has a line ou tho exhibition building, destroyed by fire this morning. The total'insurances are L 4500. Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, having undertaken the taskof forming aMicistry, the following portfolios have been allotted:—Chief Secretary and Treasurer, Sir Thomas Mcllwraith ; Colonial Secretary, Mr B. H. Morehead; Minister of Lands, Mr Black; Post-master-General and Minister of Education, Mr Donaldson; Minister of Public "Works and Mines, Mr Ma crossan ; Minister of - Justice, Mr Thynue; Minister of .Railways, Mr Nelson. Mr Archer will pvobably be appointed Agent;General. The House granted supply aud adjourned till 14th August* when the Governor’s Speech will Le delivered. Adelaide, June 53. Arrived—Barque Claymore, from Bluff Harbor.

Hobart, Juno 13. Arrived, noon —Aorangi, from Plymouth* , The Aorangi sailed at G o’clock for New Zealand. She brought 34 passengers for Australia and 70 for New Zealand; She experienced fair weather, and had a good passage. Melbourne, June 13. A first-class militia reserve is being formed* Three men were poisoned at Geelong by fumes from a chemieal manure factory. One is dead and the others are in a critical condition. A deputation of farmers waited on the Government with a request for an increase of duties ou grain and live stock. One speaker stated that Melbourne capitalists had made arrangements to buy the coming crop of Californian barley, and had instructed the agents to ship in time to forestall the Victorian harvest. The Commissioner of Customs, replying, said he would iuquire into the truth of the statement. With reference to the increased duties, he feared any increase of the kind indicated' would involve intercolonial trade proposals which, might mitigate against tho union of the colonies. The matter will receive the full consideration of the Cabinet at an early date. Captain Schutt, of the steamer Excelsior, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The prosecution arose out of the collision of the steamer with a fishing boat, by which a boy was drownfd. Newcastle, June 13. | Porter, for attempted wife murder, ’ yras- sentenced; to imprisonment for tho | term, of his natural life. 1 [ SPECIAL, London, June 12. i In the House of Commons Mr W. 1 11. Smith denied that the Government were abandoning the licensing clauses of the Local Government Bill. The criminal Jackson, who escaped from Manchester gaol a fortnight ago, after murdering one of the warders, has been arrested at Bradford. A desperate struggle took place before he was .secured. Dublin, June 12. The Bishop of Limerick is prepared to excommunicate any of the opponents t ) tho Pnpal decree. Massowaii, June 12. There is great mortality among the Italian troops stationed here. The Negus of Abyssinia him re-opeaed parleying for peace. Berlin, Juno 12. Prince Bismarck has entertained Herr von Puttkarner at a farewell banquet.