NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8964, 15 April 1890, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE.

Bsr Rl-wtric Tblecjeapix. —OoPVF.tanT. (PBP. PKE3S ASSOCIATION.) Lohdok, April 13. The Victorian loan is quoted at a premium of 1 percent. The Economist asserts that Victoria is suffering from a financial crisis. The export of gold has diminished, and the management of the Treasury ia reckless and incapable, and would not bo tolerated in a private firm. The dwindled surplus and the deficit in the railway revenue prove that the public works of the colony are unproductive.

The Berlin correspondent of vhe Daily Chronicle states that the Emperor of Germany has requested permission to traverse Russia and visit Central Asia via the Volga and Caspian. A cargo of Australian wheat has been sold at 34a 9d.

Three months’ bills are quoted at 2 per cent. Tallow —Medium mutton, 24s 3d ; beef ditto, 235. Up to date 26,000 bales of wool have been catalogued at the wool sales. The number of bales sold is 24,000. The English wheat market is firmer, the Continental steady, and the American advancing. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, is quoted at 38s 6d, and Victorian do. at 38s, nominal. New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex store, 37s 6d, business in this line being reported as steady. No. I best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in Clyde, 48s 6d ; steady. Sugar—German beet, 12s ; market flat. Java, 14s 9d. Lord Deerhnrst offered hia creditors 10s in the pound down, and the balance when he succeeded to the title.

fir Charles and Lady Halle have sailed for Australia. The master bootmakers insist that the wages dispute shall be referred to arbitration. Beelin, April 13. The non-Socialist Unionists of Germany have declined to co-operate in the eight hours’ demonstration in May, The employes of the Austrian Government and of many German factories are threatened with dismissal if they take part in the May labour celebrations. The Emperor received an ovation on his arrival at Wiesbaden. It is anderatood that General von Caprivi and Count Kalnoky have formally renewed the Triple Alliance, and it is hoped that England will cooperate. The passport system in Alsace is to abolished immediately. Prince Hohenlohe, Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, is about to retire. The Kolnische Zeitung attacks the Emperor and eulogises Prince Bismarck. St Peteesbueg, April 13. The Eussian Government will subsidise the Danubian Steamship Com pany on condition that their vessels are available as warships. It is officially stated that the complaints of the students are baseless. In all 140 have been expelled. Bomb, April 13. The Pope has despatched Signor Guillemberti to Berlin to assist General von Caprivi in negotiating with tho Clerical party. At the suggestion of the Kaiser an encyclical letter will shortly be issued advocating a general disarmament. Buua Pesth, April 13. The Pesther Lloyd protests against the continued massing o£ Eussian troops on the Austrian frontier. This miserable policy of provocation unsettles the Balkan States and endangers peace to an extent which it js impossible to endure much longer. Washington, April 13,

The Pan-American Conference has agreed to the system of reciprocity, with the exception of Chili, Paraguay, and tho Argentine Eqpublic. Ottawa, April 13, The Archbishop of Kingston, Ontario, has ordered his priests to refuse the sacrament to the parents of children attending State schools. Paeis, April 13. The British steamer Tulford has arrived at Bordeaux with her crew suffering from cholera, contracted in Burtnah, JH. M. Stanley has arrived at Cannes, where he was welcomed by the Prince of Wales. Eio de Janieeo, April 12, Sailed, yesterday—Kuapehu, for London. . Madbid, April 13. The rioters at Valencia burned the octroi collectors’ huts, and attempted to destroy the church and Carlist Club. Sxdnet, April 14. The trunk of the old man named Taylor, who was murdered near Wagga, has been discovered. The man in custody on the charge of murder has made two unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide. All the inhabitants of Bourke are engaged throwing up earthworks to protect the town from flood water. The Darling river is from 16 to 21 miles wide near Walgett. The dam at Brewarrina, 527 miles north-west from Sydney, hurst, and inundated the town, but no fatalities are recorded. Meleouene, April 14. Victoria and New South "Wales agree to subscribe conjointly with other colonies to pay Dr Ellis LIO,OOO if his specific for the extermination of wheat rust is successful.

Mr Gillies bas approved Sir Henry Parkes’ federal resolntions for sub mission to the various Parliaments. Mr Service has been interviewed with respect to the statements made by Mr J. Higginson regarding New Caledonia, and said that under no cir

cumstanees whatever would Great Britain give her consent to even a rood or land in New Hebrides Islands being handed over to any foreign power. Any Victorian Ministry suggesting such a thing would be turned out of office with only twenty-four hours’ notice. Peeth, April 13. There is great excitement here consequent upon a find of gold, which is said to be the richest yet made in the colonv. A thousand ounces of coarse gold and nuggeta has been found at Ashburton, the scene of the find. SPECIAL. London, April 12, Stanley considers that an expenditure of £3,000,000 would be required before England could bring about a complete subjugation of the Soudan. Stanley intends to visit the Australasian colonies at the conclusion of his tour through the United States. The hearing of the Dunlo divorce suit is fixed for May. 4he O’Shea divorce case is not likely to come on before October. Seelin', April 12. It is expected that one of the results of the meeting between the Emperor William and Queen Victoria, at Darmstadt, will be the settlement of the Hanover confiscations. The Emperor William is increasing the German armaments. New Yoek, April 12, The carpetmakera throughout the States are offering strong opposition to the proposed alteration in the duty on wool.