CABLE BREVITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 9662, 22 July 1892, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

(press association.) The Cape Assembly, by a majority of 25, have read the second time a Franchise Bill increasing the qualification to the occupation of property worth LTS. Reciprocal arrangements have been completed between Victoria and Now Zealand to protect patents issued in either colony. The Countess of Dunoughmoro was fined L2O for removing her daughter in a cab while suffering from scarlet fever, and failing to notify the owner of the lodginghouse. The death is announced of Rob Roy Macgregor, the canoeist. A plague has broken out in the Khorassan province of Persia. (Received July 21, 9 p.m.) Messrs Chaffey Bros, will shortly issue LIOO,OOO worth of first mortgage 5 per cent bonds, wnh principal and interest guaranteed by two insurance companies. (Received July 22, I a.m.) The New South Wales Government is calling for tenders for 175,000 steel rails manufac'ured in the Colony from colonial products. (SPECIAL.) Zimmerman, the American cyclist, has reduced the five-mile tandem record by losec. It is reported Lord Stanley, of Preston, Governor-General of Canada, has resigned. The Wear shipbuilders have given notice of a reduction of 10 per cent in wages.