HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5461, 17 December 1892, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

(Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (PER. l.tntip PRE.-M ASSOCIATION. ) Received December 17, at 10.10 a.m.] London, December 17. The decision in the South Meath election petition unseating Mr P. Fullain was, that the election was due to clerical! influence. Mr Micha -1 Davitt did not wish a contest with the North Me&th petitioner, preferring to leave on a lecturing tour to Australia, but the Court decided that they must hear the evidence. The evidence adduced during the hearing of the petition showed that Bishop Nutter's pastoral, which was claimed to have been divinely inspired, declared that it was impossible for a Parnellite to be a Roman Catholic. The Post Office officials have impounded L.10.0Q0, which were sunt in connection with the " missing word'' puzzle. Berlin. December 16. In the Reichstag a bill subsidising a German mail service to New Guinea to the extent of L 12,000 annually, instead of the Samoa service, has beei* introduced. Received December 17, at 11 a.m-1 London. December 16. An explosion occurred in the coal bunkers of the Orient steamer Ophir, at Tilbury, by which a man was killed. Tasmanian Treasury bills are being offered at 90i,"bot it is helieved that they will have to be placed at a lower figure. The Daily News says that are readily absorbing the New South \\ ales Fonr-per-Centa now being issued in Sydney. The bankers assert that the public are sick oF Treasury hilts. . Large sales are being effected of > ictorian stocks, sellers hoping to bny again at a cheaper rote. Glyn, Mills, and Co. offer to float a million loan at per cent, for South Australia in January. In the case, Ellis v. South British Insurance Company, the appeal was allowed with costs. Rome, December lb. The Pope declares Freemasonry satanic, and asserts that it aims at replacing Christianity by naturali-m. Calcutta. December 16. Mehtar wishes the British officer formally to instal him in C'hitral. The usurper has fled to the Afghan camp. Madrid, December 16. Eight dynamite bomlia were discovered in Cadiz. Received December 11, at 11.15 a.m.j London. December 16. The Bank "f England returns published to-day show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be L 15.762.000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities in 48.10. Three months' bills are discounted at 1$ per cent. Consots. 97iNew Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 10r*{ : 34 do, 96J. N.Z. long-berried wheat, ex warehouse. 32s (restricted). Mutton—Canterbury, 4£d ; Wellington, , - , Beef—Forcquarters, 3d; hindquarters, The market is glutted with cheap frozen meats of all kinds. Nelson Bros, are holding back a consignment by th-r s.s. Massilia, from Melbourne', for a better market. The consignees of the Ota_rama's damaged meat are claiming about 3w per cent, from the underwriters. The hemp market is dull. 10 balej of New Zealand, fair quality, sold at L 24 ss. There is a large supply of kauri gum in the market, ami competition is active. Fine pale hard-scraped is bringing L.S 10s, and old half-scraped, L 3 15a —fine class, to L 4 Is. Danish butter, 30s. The Rimutafcas butter brought 00s to 116 a ; a few of the best packages, 120'. The condition of the shipment was excellent. South Australian wheat, ex warehouse, 33a 6d (flat). Victorian wheat, 33a ; weaker. Sugar—Best German beet, 14s ljd ; Java, 16a 63. . , , No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in Clyde, 41s 9d ; steady. Received December 17. at 0.15 p-m.l Brcssels, December 16. The Committee informed the Monetary Conference that they considered it inexpedient to submit the embodying proposals ■which had been suggested. Considerable discussion ensued during which the United States and other delegates angrily attacked the British representatives for the hostility they had shown to the proposals.