CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 33

CABLE BREVITIES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (PRES:S ASSOCIATION.) In the Victorian Legislative Assembly Sir Graham Berry announced that the increased duties on wines, beer and spirits are expected to realise L 200,000 per year. The opponents of the American Silver Bill are confident that they will be able to kill the measure. Sir Graham Berry states that it cost Victoria LBBO to bring Deeming to justice. Pasteur ia recovering. The Financial News asserts that another L 3,000,000 will be required to complete the Manchester Ship Canal. The Rev F. B. Meyer, Baptist, succeeds the Rev Newman Hall, who some time since announced his intention of retiring from active service in June. The Players defeated the Gentlemen by ten wickets.

The Senate has decided not to open the Chicago World’s Fair on Sundays, and the sale of liquors will be forbidden on'week days. The death is announced of Sir Charles Cox, formerly of the Colonial Office, and Chancellor of the Order of St Michael and St George. The whole of the frontier tribe of Iluzaras are in rebellion again. Senator Sherman has introduced a Bill repealing the clause in the Silver Act which provides for monthly purchases of bullion. It is proposed to bring the alteration into operation in January. Black-pox has appeared among the troops stationed in St Petersburg,

The two missing warships have arrived safely at Buenos Ayres. In the Bankruptcy Court the discharge of Mr David Christie Murray, novelist, has been suspended for two years. Obituary—Thomas Cooper, the prominent Chartist. The- Portland Cement Corporation of New Zealand, with a capital of L 40,000 has been registered. The Russian Government has announced its intention of taking part in the International Silver Conference. The U. S. Senate has quashed the committee’s decision prohibiting the sale of liquors in the Chicago Exhibition. The experiments conducted in Greece for the purpose of destroying mice by introducing the typhus bacillus among them have been successful. The New South Wales Parliament will resume on August 30. (special.) The authors of the explosion at Very’s restaurant have been traced to Belgium, and their extradition demanded, Sarasate, the violinist, has received the decoration of the Legion of Honour. Porfirio Diaz has been re-elected President of Mexico. The Colonial Office has concurred in Mr Munro’s proposals for the settlement of the New Hebrides question. The Rev John Trustcob has been elected President of the Free Methodist Congregation. A fire broke out in a school at Berkhamstead, and escape proving difficult, eight of the children were killed. The Senate has negatived the Silver Bill by a majority of 32. The Victoria Cross has been conferred on Captain Aylmer and Lieutenants Boisragon, Manders and Smith for gallantry in the Cushmere campaign last year. M. Stephene, Parisian cyclist, rode 400 miles in 24 hours 24 minutes. The Bill to prevent the decrease in the population of France abolished the equal division of property on the death of a parent, and taxes small families and bachelors. The rainfall in Madras has been heavy. The anniversary of the destruction of the Bastille was observed in Paris to-day as a national fete with tremendous enthusiasm. A train was thrown off the rails at Munich, and the men on the engine were killed. The accident was caused by the mistake of a pointsman, who has committed suicide. The Chinese on the Yang-tse-’Kiang are again being incited to disorder.