LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5461, 17 December 1892, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ) HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (pee united prkss association. ) Received December 17, at 7 p.m.] London, December 15. The wool sales closed fairly spirited. The Continent has taken 135,000 bales, America 5000, and Great Britain 70,000. The number of bales withdrawn is 7000. Compared with the previous sales merino scoured wools are id to Id dearer ; greasy good combing fully -id dearer ; greasy short faulty sorts are at par to |d dearer ; lambs' wool is also £d dearer ; crossbreds, fine scoured wool, id lower than last sales, All the other sales VI dearer. Received December 17, at 1.10 a.m.] London, December 10. At a meeting of the Free Labor Society a powerful manifesto was issued to the effect that the unemployed difficulty was solely the result of the new unionists recklessly ordering strikes. Paris, December 16. The Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of six, has refused to grant the Panama Canal Committee judicial powers. MM. Ribot. and Bourgeois have professed a desire of loyalty to assist the Committee, but consider that the powers demanded endanger the Republic, and a deep-laid scheme existed to launch a torrent of mud at the Republic under the pretext of exposing individual misdoing. M. Brisson contended that the Committee ought to be armed with peculiar powers, and the debate in the Chamber resolved itself into a struggle between MM. Ribot and Brissons. The former carried the Chamber at first, but influence was wanted, and many stormy scenes were the result. M. Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, considers that the Cabinet will not resign, but that ifc is possible that the Legislative Committee inquiring into the Panama Canal scandal will resign, and the Government will prosecute the directors criminally, also those members of the Cabinet who are proved to have been bribed. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (per united press association. ) Received December 17, at 1.10 a.m.] Sydney, December IG. Sailed- Rotomahana, for Wellington. Melbourne, December 16. Counsels' opinion is that informations will be laid against Sir M. D,ivies and Messrs Beal, Muntz, and Anderson, directors of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, and not against Sir Graham Berry and Mr Addie. It is also recommended that Mr F. Milledge, late manager, should be brought back from London to explain the management. Adelaide, December 16. The death is announced of Mr M. L. Cotton, M.L.C., author of the Workmen's Land Blocks Scheme, which has done much for the settlement of the colony.