GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2274, 2 August 1894, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. — Copyright. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. London, August 1. Commander Kingsford has been appointed additional commander on H.M.S. Orlando. Lieutenant and Commander Purey-Cust has been reappointed to the Dart. Received August 2,0.45 a.m. London, August 1. H.M.S. Crescent conveys the relief crews for the Australian Squadron at the end of August. COLONIAL MEAT BILL. London, August 1. The Foreign and Colonial Meat Bill has been withdrawn from the House of Commons. THE SITUATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. London, August 1. In the House of Commons, in reply to a question, Mr S. C. Buxton, Parliamentary Secretary to the Colonial Office, said the Governor of New South Wales possessed the power to refuse Sir. G. R. Bibbs’ nominees to the Legislative Council, seeing that the Dibbs Government had resigned and His Excellency was obliged to find another Government to conduct the business of the country.

GERMAN LEGATION WITHDRAWN PROM GREECE. Berlin, August 1. Owing to the Greek repudiation the German Government has decided to withdraw its Legation from that country, and suspends tho commercial treaty. DESPERATE ANARCHISTS DEPORTED. Rome, August 1. Tho most desperate of the Anarchists will be deported to Ustioa, an island off the north coast of Sicily. INTERVIEW WITH THE GERMAN EMPEROR. Paris, August 1. M. Jules Simon, French statesman, describing an interview he had with the German Emperor, states the latter declared that only a madman or a criminal would drive Germany and France into war. ANOTHER STORM PREDICTED. Brisbane, August 1. Mr Wragge predicts heavy weather across the Tasman Sea, and affecting the south-western portion of New Zealand. ACCIDENT TO THE MIOWERA. London, July 31. The Miowera, which is now on an excursion trip in North Europe, ran aground at Askervold, on the coast of Norway, and the passengers had to be landed on an uninhabited island. The Miowera is under the command of Captain Stott, but a pilot was in charge when she struck at midnight on a rock which is not marked on the chart. Tho vessel’s bottom is torn for some distance, and there is 7ft of water in the hold. Received August 2, OAS a.m. London, August 1.

The Arawa remains in the AustralianCanadiau trade, owing to the mishap to tho Miowera. Huddart Parker’s old scheme prospectus will shortly be issued with a capital of about two millions sterling. ENGLISH POLITICS. London, July 31. The House of Lords has agreed to the Budget proposals. OBITUARY. London, July 31. Mr Walter Pater, essayist, is dead. [Walter Pater was born in London on the 4th of August, 1839, and educated at the King’s School, Canterbury; he entered the University of Oxford, at Queen’s College, in 1858 j took B.A. degree (2nd class in classics) in 1862 ; was elected to an open Fellowship at Brasenose, in which college he has since held various offices, and took the degree of M.A. in 1865. His first contribution to literature was an essay on the writings of Coleridge in the Westminster Review, January, 1866. In 1873 he published “ The Renaissance,” a series of studies in art and literature, 3rd edition, 1888. In 1885 appeared “ Marius, tho Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas;” 2nd editions, for England and America, were printed in the same year. In 1887 he published “ Imaginary Portraitsand in 1889, “ Appreciations; with an Essay on Style,” 2nd edition, 1890.] THE VICTORIAN BUDGET. Melbourne, July 31. The Budget shows that the revenue has fallen £843,000 below the estimate, while the expenditure has only been reduced £174,000, leaving the deficit for the year £665,000. The Treasurer proposes to ask tho House to pass an income tax next year, and impose a new tariff, on the recommendations of the Tariff Commission. Instead of carrying forward the deficit, the Government intends to issue £500,000 in Treasury bonds, and proposes to pay off tho deficiency in' yearly instalments of £250,000.

THE SHEARERS’ STRIKE. . Sydney, August 1. A number of free labourers were taken from a shed and are held prisoners by the Unionists in the Wilcannia district. Received August 2 , 0.45 a.m. Sydney, August 1. Two hundred shearers have refused to sign the agreement in. the Moree district, and has formed a strike camp. A supply of free men has been despatched from Sydney, PARLIAMENTARY SQUABBLES. Hobart, August 1. A “ scene " occurred in the Assembly last night, through Mr Macdonald making some remarks which Mr Gilmore erroneously interpreted to mean that he had come to the colony as a convict. He struck Mr Macdonald in the face, and was suspended for the. remainer of the sitting.