NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 9631, 16 June 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Bv Electric Telegraph —Comtioirr. (PRESS ASSOCIA TION ) SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Adelaide, June 15. In the Legislative Assembly Mr F. W. Holder moved an amendment to the Addr ss iu-Rep'y, and is pressing wdut of confidence m the Government. Ho charged the members of the Government with insincerity, blunderiiiil, tltld nleddling as administrators. The debate on the amendment is proceeding.

THE SILVER QUESTION. Calcutta, June 14. The Indian Government has appealed to the Marquis of Salisbury t > consider the measures which it is necessary to take to avert disastrous results should America stop the coinage of silver.

THE NONCONFORMISTS AND MR GLADSTONE. London, June 14. Mr Gladstone has arranged to hold a meeting with the Nonconformist leaders in London on Saturday.

RAILWAY COLLISION IN LONDON. London, June 14.

A collision occurred between workmen’s trains in the Bishopgate tunnel, on the Metropolitan lino. Three occupants were killed and forty injured.

THE FAILURE OF THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK. London, June 14. The Daily Telegraph states that it is feared that the - depositors with the New Oriental Bank Corporation will only receive 10s iu the £, and that the winding up of the institution is likely to occupy years, owing to the nature of its assets. CHOLERA IN PERSIA. Teheran, June 14. The cholera continues in Meshed with unabated severity, and 400 deaths are recorded daily. (Received June 16, 0.45 a.m.) THE CANADIAN LOAN. London, June 15. The Canadian loan was subscribed three times over at an average of L 92 0s 6d. (SPECIAL.) (Received June 15, 7.30 p.m.) ■ A BAD OMEN. Washington, June 15. A cyclone has destroyed the Democrat Convention’s wigwam at Chicago, where they were to meet next week for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the Presidency. . (Received June 16, 0.55 a.in.) EXPLOSION IN SAN FRANCISCO. London, June 15. An officer dropped a shell in Mare Island Arsenal, San Francisco. Sixteen persons were killed by the explosion which followed, and the building was blown to atoms. THE TRAGEDY IN A SILVERMXNE. Vienna, June 15. Four men have been arrested who have confessed that they caused the recent fire in a silvermiue near Prague by carelessly throwing candle wicks about. AN INVITATION FROM IRELAND. London, June 15. The Macarthy section of tho Irish party have invited Mr Edward Blake, Q.C., Leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, to contest an Irish seat for tho House of Commons. (press association.) SHIPPING AND COMMERCIAL. London, June 14. At the wool sales to-day 12,700 bales were offered, butitwasnotaropresentative catalogue. There was a largo attendance of buyers and competition was brisk. All Australian wools wore firm at the May closing rates, but the lower grades of New Zealand crossbreds were 5 per cent easier. Sydney, June 15. Wheat, chick 3s 8d to 3s 9d, milling. New Zealand, 4s 9d to 4s lOd ; oats, feeding 2s 4d to 3s fid, seed 2s 8d ; maizs, 2s 8d ; barley, Cape 3s to 3a sd, English 3s lid, nominal ; peas, blue Prussian, boiling, 3s lid to 4s; bran. Is 3d; pollard, Is 4d ; potatoes, New Zealand, L 3 ss, Circular Heads L 4 5s ; onions, L 3 to 3s IDs; butter, New Zealand dairymade 1s to Is Id, factory Is 4d to Is fid ; cheese, 5Jd ; bacon. New Zealand cured, 7£d to 8d ; haras, lOd to lid. Arrived —Paotole, from Dunedin. Melbourne, Juno 15.

Wheat is in moderate demand ; prime quality, 4s 2d. Oats, Algerian and Danish, 2s 2d ; stout heavy, 2s 4d. Adelaide, June 15.

The wheat market is quiet at 4s 3d. Oats, 3s 3d to 3s 4d, Barley—Cape, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; English malting, 4s 5d Bran, Is. Pollard, Is 2d. Pout Kbmbla, June 15. Sailed—Defiance, for Auckland.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following from their London house : —London, 14th inst.—Wool—The sales opened this day at the level of last sales, except for fine, medium and coarse greasy crossbred, which are par to id per lb lower. The attendance of both Home and foreign buyers is good and competition is active. The total quantity available, including wool held over from last series, is 446,000 bales, 58,000 of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct. Murray, Roberts and Co. were yesterday in receipt of the following cable message from their London friends, Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Co., regarding the wool sales : —The sales opened with a good attendance of buyers. For merino the market shows no change. Crossbreds have declined a id.