AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5204, 10 February 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

(By Elkctric Tkuotkaph— Copyright.) (PKH UNITEI> PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received February 10, at 110011,] ' Sydnky, February 10. .Sharon in tho .lunction Mino, Broken Hill, have fallen to 6s Od. Mkliiournh. Fobrimry 10. Tho political situation is unchanged. Mr Munro's resignation of tho Premiership docs not take effect until negotiations for the disposal of tho colony's bills aro completed. Mr Shiels, tho Premier-elect, is being counselled to exclude tho ono-man-one-vote plank from tho platform of tho ro-constructeil Ministry, as being likely to cause turmoil at-an inopportuno time. If Mr Shieln agrees to drop tho principle, one of tho members of tho Ministry in tho Lcgisl'itivo Council will retain his seat, but tho others will resign with Mr Munro. It is believed, however, that tho Government will retain the single vote as olio of tho items of their policy, but will keep it in the background as much as possible. Captain Gill, who commanded tho yacht Beagle, has returned from HongKong. Ho siiys that 801 l and Davis, whom ho always know as Broom ami Douglaß, treated him with ovory consideration. Ho resignod tho command of the vessel after tho Honolulu trouble. Sailed—Bolls, for tho Bluft - . Newcastle, Fobruary 10. Sailed—Ganymede, for Timaru.