LATE CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8967, 18 April 1890, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received April 18, 1.35 a. m.) - THEATRICAL. .London, April 17. Amy Horton (Mrs Hepburn) has 'been engaged to appear in a burlesque written by Fergus Hume. THE VICTORIAN LOAN. The feeling over the success of 'floating the Victorian loan is now more sanguine. Foreign brokers are inquiring for it, and it is expected that the public will tender largely. The ■banks are inclined to support it, and it is believed that a syndicate will make special efforts to secure an allotment. The Standard asserts there is no enthusiasm over the loan, but in ■forested syndicates will secure its being well covered. H. M. STANLEY. It is reported that Stanley will •shortly be appointed Governor of British East Africa. DEFALCATIONS. A native cashier of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China has made large defalcations, and the directors of the bank have placed the sum of L 30.000 to the credit of the •contingent fund to provide for the losses. YORK CONVOCATION. The Upper House of York Convocation, on the motion of Bishop Morehouse, instructed the clergy to encourage Boards of Conciliation for the 'Settlement of industrial disputes and the extension of co operative production. The Lower House protected (sic) the Divorce Act and expressed sympathy 'with the clergy. COMMERCIAL. The wool market is brisk. Sfloured merino is Id, good greasy sorts |-d, And inferior greasy Id below the prices Tealised at the February sales. The prices for crossbreds and lambs are unchanged Bar silver, 3s 9d.