CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8496, 17 May 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOKEIGN.

;by Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press association.)

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. London, May 15. ( Received May 16, at 2.30 p.m.) New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 4£ s per cents., 112£; Dalgety and Co.'s, 4£,

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,000,608 quarters, and for the Continent 348,000 quarters. The American visible supply is 28,875,000 bushels.

English wheat is firmer, but Continental is unchanged, while American is steady. New Zealand mutton, U& per lb Leather, Sf d to Sid. per lb

THE DEMON PLAYS FOR DERBYSHIRE.

__ The Marylebone Club, while allowing Spofiorth to play for Derbyshire against them on the 20th inst., refuse to recognise it as a precedent affecting the qualifications of a oounty player.

A TORY CANDIDATE.

Mr Henry Grsham (of South Australia' has been accepted as the Tory candidate foi St. Pancras West

SPORTING. (Received May 16,ab-10.20 p.m.) The objection laid against Ringmaster being awarded the stakes in the Great Northern Handicap, on the ground that the ]ockey was not a Una fide apprentice, has been overruled as frivolous

THE ROBBERY FROM THE IBERIA,

The first discovery that gold was missing from the Orient Company's steamer Iberia was made on the arrival of the vessel in London. The company assume that possibly the money was shortshipped at Sydney. cc

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

It is reported that Colonel Sargood, of Melbourne, will receive the honour of Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George on Her Majesty's birthday

REDUCTION IN FREIGHTS.

The Shipping Committee have decided on a reduction on freights by 2s 6d per ton all round after the despatch of vessels at, present loading,

THE RAID ON GAMBLERS.

iHeceived May 16, at' 2 p.m.) It has transpired that the Countess of Dudley, knowing that her son was being lleeced in the gambling hell where the .baccarat Club conduct their operations, and failing to induce the police to take proceedings finally applied to Home Secretary Matthews to have the club closed. The result was that the police were compelled to take action. Three members of the Carlton Club were among those who were arrested. MRS LANGTRY. Maj 16. ! (Received May 17, at 1.30 a.m.) It is likely that Mr Garner (of the fL»m of Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove) will engage Mrs Langtry for a three months' tour in Australia. TURKEY JEALOUS OF FRANCE. Constantinople, May 16. (Received May 17, a t 1.30 a.m.) The Porte is very jealous of French political activity in Syria. THE NEW COMPTOIR. Paris, May 16. (Received May 17, at 1.30 a.m.)

Eight thousand shares in the new Comptoir d'Escompte, which were placed in the market, have been subscribed twofold.

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

M. Janison, director of the Mendoza Observatory, declares that experiments made at the top of the Eiffel Tower, have proved that there is no oxygen in the atmosphere of the sun.

SAMOAN AFFAIRS. Berlin, May 16, (Received May 17, at 1.30 a.m.)

_ It is expected that the conference now sitting on Samoan affairs will advise the establishment of a dual control over the Native Government.

THE MAHDI.

Caibo, May 15.

(Received Hay 16, at 2.30 p.m.)

The Khalifa has sent letters to Wady Haifa, in which he writes menacingly towards the Queen and the Khedive. He has also forwarded the original letter which Colonel Porter took to King John of Abyssinia.

A DARING ROBBERY. New York, May 15,

(Received May 16, at 2.30 p.m.)

A number of highwaymen attacked an army treasury escort in Arizona. Five of the escort were wounded, three of them fatally; The robbers decamped with 30,000 dollars of booty.

(Special, to Press Association.) .|N OPPORTUNE TIME. London, May 15. (Eeceived May 16, at 10 a.m.) Financiers consider it was unwise of New South Wales to pledge herself not to borrow again within a given period. They consider the present juncture the most opportune that could possibly exist for floating a loan. MR O'BRIEN AND THE PREMIER. Mr O'Brien intends to sue the Marquis of Salisbury for alleged libel and slander in a speech delivered by the Premier atWalford, in March.

A VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

Mr W. L. Bright, M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent, will include New Zealand in his colonial tour. ..

DISESTABLISHMENT REJECTED,

The House of Commons has rejected a proposal for the disestablishment of the Cnurch in Wales.

FIGHTING IN SUMATRA.

In an encounter between the Dutch and the natives of Acheen, in Sumatra, 30 of the former were killed or wounded. The Acheenese attacked the garrison of Edi. The encounter was sharp at the first, but the garrison eventually defeated the enemy, of whom 160 were killed.

WORKMEN'S DWELLINGS,

The Austrian Government is exempting new workmen's dwellings built on modern approved principles from taxation for 24 years.