CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10306, 13 March 1895, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES.

H.M. troopship Tyne sails for Aistralian waters on Friday.

The vessel Sybil has been placed it quarantine p.t Brisbane.

Mr Michael Davitt sails by the Ariadiafor Australia on a lecturing tour.

The death is announced of M. Worth, tha well-known Paris dressmaker.

Mr Justice Windeyer has been elected Chancellor of the Sydney University in the placs of the late Sir William Manning

Another good find of a gold raef has been made at Mount Margaret, Tasmania, where 213cz of gold were dollied fron 5001b of stone.

Mr W. 3. Trickett, H.L.C., who las returned to Sydney from a visit to Nev Zealand, and speaks unfavourably of thacondition of that colony.

The- remains of the late Admiral Hornby will be cremated. He will be accorded an official funeral to the cinerary urn al Oorapton, Sussex.

Mr C. J. Stewart, official receiver, is calling up LlO per fihare in the Bank of South Australia, payable in one inutalmeat within a month. He Eays that this action is justified with the view to avoid pay tke Union Bank interest.

A rumour ie current in Sydaey that Sir H. Parkes iatends to move a vote of censure on the Government, but the Prenier, Mr Keid, declares, that he will take no Eotice of snch a motion, and it will have to take its chance with those of other private members.

The Chief Justica of TasmanU has ruled that taxpayers may deduct depneiation in the value of their shares from the income tax assessment; also that parliamentary candidates, whether successful or not, ara not entitled to deduct their election expenses from their income returns.

The London correspondent of the South ■Australian Register states that Sir John Gorst will be Secretary of State for the Colonies in the next Conservative Administration, and that Lord BrasEey's reward for going to Victoria will be a marquisate.