NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8968, 19 April 1890, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE.

Hz Kr;EOTi;(O Teleg,eapji.—Copyright. (PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION,! London, April 17. An Australian cargo of wheat, for prompt shipment, has been eold at 3ds. At the wool sales to-day, greasies are bringing best prices. There have been heavy withdrawals of inferior merinos. Last night the police raided Pideli’e, a low betting club in Soho, and effected the arrest of 57 persons, chiefly foreigners. Sir "W, H. Houldsworth has been elected steward of the Jockey Club, vice Mr J. Lowther, resigned. The bank rate of discount is 3 per cent. Sir J?. N. Broome informed the Colonising Committee of the House of Commons that it would be useless to attempt any scheme of sending emigrants to Western Australia under £<loo,ooo. Sir T. Campbell stated that the stagnation from which that colony was suffering was entirely the result of the Colonial Office refusing to permit borrowing. Eight hundred tenders were received for the Victorian 4,000,000 loan, covering L 13,013,000. Tenderers at LlOl 9s Gd get 50 per cent. The average price is expected to be LlOl 11a. A syndicate tendered for several millions at LlOl 9s Gd. The banks and syndicates tendered largely at lower prices, with the view of simply swelling the total amount offered. The lowering of the bank rate of dis count from 3£ to 3 per cent has raised the average price ss. With the exception of a few small outsiders, the highest tender was LlO2 Is. It has been agreed between bootmakers and their employers to refer the wages’ dispute to arbitration. Captain Kane, late of the Calliope, ia tin applicant for the post of commander of H.M.9. Excellent. Lisbon, April 17. The proposed Portuguese railway loan was a fiasco. Paeis, April 17. Madame Melba appeared hero as Marguerite in “ Faust,” and scored the greatest success that has fallen to the lot of any singer who has filled the part since Adelina Patti, President Carnot touched at Aix-Ics-Bains, but proceeded to Marseilles without visiting Queen Victoria, who in at present in the former city, Capetown, April 17. The Storm King, which put in here on her way from London to Melbourne, has resumed her voyage, Beelin, April 17. Rioting occurred among the Silesian miners, but the disturbance was suppressed by the military. The Socialists declare that the labour demonstration on Ist May will be carried out everywhere without any disorder. Washington, April 17. The Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives has reported on the Republican Tariff Bill, making hides and sugar below 1G per cent Dutch standard, free; above 16 pei cent, subject to duty of fourtenths of one cent per pound; and giving American domestic eugar a bounty of two cents per pound. The Pan-American Congress is generally regarded as a failure, and no result ia expected from its deliberations. As a means of dealing with the silver difficulty, the joint committee of the Lower House and Senate propose that the Treasury shall buy 4g million ounces per month, and advocate almost a free coinage. Sydney, April 18. Latest news from Bourke is that tho water is level with the top of the embankment, and the inhabitants are fighting it inch by inch. Seven miles of the railway line is now impassable. Steamers ore waiting to carry off the defenders when the water bursts through the embankments. Adelaide, April 18. Professor Drummond, author of “Natural Law in the Spiritual World,” has arrived here. Ho proposes to give a series of semi-private lectures in the colonies, mostly by means of the Universities. Melbouehe. April 18. Arrived, yesterday—Tekapo, from tho Bluff. SPECIAL. London, April 17, The Trades Unions have "published a manifesto stating that Ist May is unsuitable for the eight hours demonstration in Hyde Park, and appointing Sunday, 4th May, instead. After a stormy meeting betweea the representatives of workmen and the Chamber of Commerce it was ultimately decided that 12 trades should be represented on the Conciliation Committee. The men assert that the master bootmakers are shuffling, and insist that the question of enlarging and improving tho woiksbops should be promptly settled. , Arrangements are being made to enforce order during the May demonstration?. The evictions on tho Ponsonby estate are proceeding quietly, Mr Fiucb-Hatton has had an interview with Mr S. Herbert with respect to the renewal of the agitation fop the separation of Northern Queensland It ia expected that tho Behrings Sea fishery dispute will be amicably settled on the lines suggested by the Canadian delegates Sir C. Dilke has declined to contest the Kensington seat. Prince George has been gazetted to H.M.S- Thrush. It is thought probable that Stanley I will be naturalised and decorated. |

Paets, April 17. A meeting of anarchists at tho house of Louse Michel insisted that dynamite was essential lo the attain ment of their objects..- This sentiment was received with applause. New Yoek, April 17. Ex President Cleveland is ill. Berlin, April 17. The press is favourable to General von Caprivi. The Reich.-dag will probably discuss the question of a general disarmament. The Chai col lor in his speech said it was essential to utilise the unofficial prose for the purpose of influencing foreign opinion, and it would be im possible lo disavow any statements which it was found desirable to publish in the Gazette. Lisbon, April 17. Major Pinto has arrived at Cape Verde Islands. PeaGDE, April 17. The Young Czechs are denouncing the compromise reeentlyarrived at,and the alliance of Bohemian and German elements. Zanzibae, April 17. Emin, with 1500 followers, opens trading stations on the great central African lakes in tho German interest.