CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10422, 26 July 1895, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Tho American visible supply of wheat is 45.700.000 bushels. ■ • ,

' Union Sleam Ship Company's shares are at L 6 103.

The Brazilian loan has been; subscribed chiefly in Paris..

It is stated that the Duke of ConnaugM will succeed the Dako of Cambridge S3 Commander-in-chief.

The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,510,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,240,000.

Report 3 from Shanghai state that Japan demands an additional seven and a-balf millions 'sterling.indemnity for withdrawing from the LiauioDg Peninsula.

A number of Italian newspapers publish the' report that the British authorities in Egypt have seized 20,000 rifis3 intended for Italian troops in Abysoinia.

The Times strongly urges that Mr Gully be re-elected Spsaker of the House of Commons, in' order to demonstrate the noa-partisan character of the position.

The Waitskauri Extended Gold Mining Company, which proposes to carry on operations ia the Thames district, has been'jregisterad, with a, capital of L130.C00.1

The Morocco Government bas paid the indemnity demanded by Germany ia connection with the murder of a German, and consequently the squadron is withdrawn.

The Qaeensland Government recently received intimation from: one of-"the western stations that thre 'tshad been mads fco poison shearers' food if they went to work.

Dr Stoiloff ha 3; not resigned the: Premiership of Rbamahia. ; The Cabinet hafe; apologised for. the treatment to which' foreign consuls were subjected at the funeral of M. Stambouloff. ' ;■ ; '■■?*■■-■■.:■■" '■ - -^1

.•;.;ib; is reported jthafe'stoneequal to,'that of' the ;Londonderrj^rich shoot;tas besa struck in the liDndondcrry South mine at a depth of 102 ft, and ciose to the-. boundary-of the Londonderry mine. j .

The report of the Boyal. Commission respecting the Northern Territory. -of - Australia recommends that offers be invited for cbe construction of a transcontibeatal railway on the laad' grant sysfem.,- Two rnembsr's of the commission dissgreed with that recommendation. 7 '• "-'■':' :\" .^ :' '-

The' Premier of South Australia, replying to the Victorian? Premier's letter with reference to federal quarantineCsays that in the abseoCß of any iorm of federal union it would be bettar to deal with the matter at the Conference of representatives of the different colonies. Mr Turner favours this suggestion, and has asked the Health department to draft a scheme to submit to the proposed conference. \v ■ , } ■ .-

A meeting of London depositors rejected the. reconstruction scheme of the City of Melbourne Bank, and appointed the existing cpaainittee to co-operate with the Scotch epminittee inmaking inquiries into the position 6f_ the bank.: Mr Stewart Voffibially reported most unfavonrabiy on the debtors' ■account, and questioned the accuracy of the old balance sheets, stating also that the directors' overdrafts had exceeded £50,000.

.• iThe'..Age, referring: to. Lord - Ripon's despatch, cays it v inaniteiyasmisirifr to ses Mm, when virtually turned out; of offica, savagely turning on the Imperial Federation League. The extension of the principle of customs combinations amongst the:. British self-governing colonies ia not tha wild departure he deems it. It has been law amoegst the Australasian colonies for a quarter of a century, but has never been .once ■;taken advantage of. The indacemeat ; of the neighbouring colonies to enter into reciprocal treaties is naturally greater than in widely divided provinces, no that the likelihood of any agreement between distant provinces ia remote. The Age says it would be intolerable that a colonial customs bill should be at the mercy of the representatives of English exporters, and that if such representatives claim power on the ground that the Imperial Government is responsible for the treaties oi the Empire with the outside world, it will be incumbsat ca the colonies to msiss on [the revision of all Imperial treaties which may limit their freedom in commercial aetiou, and that no new treaties ba made which would make them parties to them without their consent.