NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 50, 21 December 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGUT^ London, December 17. There ia a good demand for Australian and New Zealand paying wood. The buyers complain of the bareness of the market and apathy of shippers. A portion of the consignment of New Zealand butter from the cool chamber of the steamer Tougariro brought from?. 101 s to IOGs per cwt. \ Shares in Baron Schroder’s Assets Company, formed to take over the Union Mortgage and Agency Company’s guaranteed mortgages, have been allotted.

In his speech at Stratford, Lord Rosebery said that the Liberal Party would never be defeated except by itself. The only danger was weakness from within. Mr Mundella told his constituents that he was certain every act of the old directorate of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company was prompted by the sole desire to benefit the Company. He and his old colleagues would be glad to see the new Company prosper. A circular has been issued by six persons who hold £300,000 worth of shares in the south-eastern Railway Company, strongly advocating Mr E. M. Eddy, at present Chief Commissioner of New South Wales railways, as chairman of the Company. The circular eulogises his administration of colonial railways, and declares that the directors would nob welcome the appointment unless the shareholders insist on it.

Mr Weddell’s agents ia Vienna report that Queensland beef is making slow but steady progress in the market, despite the competition of American meat.

A Gladstonain letter to the AngloArmenian Society says that if the outrages are proved, the civilised world will ask how long they are to be endured.

Bradford merchants have addressed a letter to the Melbourne exporters complaining that the sheep-shearing machines in the colony show uneven cutting, which causes the wool to coil under the combing process. It is pointed out that this results in serious loss to manufacturers.

The Ruapehu left Plymouth on Saturday for Wellington and Lyttelton with 2360 tons of carge and 126 passengers. Rome, December 18.

Replying to the charges brought against him of complicity in the Banca Romana scandal, Signor Crispi declared that Signor Giolitti forged the documents which were under consideration by the committee of the Chamber of Deputies. Parliament has prorogued in order to check Signor Giolitti’s tactics and the endeavour of the committees to involve Signor Crispi in the Banca Romana scandal.

The police have been shaddowing Giolitti, ex-Premier, since he left Italy. Constantinople, December 18.

It is believed that the decision of the Porte in regard to the Armenian enquiry indicates that the European entente cordiale will end in a re-group-ing of the Powers on the Eastern question. Berlin, December 18.

Prince Tloheulohe, German Chancellor, is ill, through worry and harrassment. During the discussion in the Reichstag on the motion to prosecute the Socialists, he remained seated in his chair with his head bowed down, and sometimes fell asleep. Calcutta, December 18.

The Waziris having declined to accept the terms offered for peace, the Indian Government is sending a military expedition to their country immediately. Bt. Johns, December 18.

The Imperial Gevernment has offered to assist the Newfoundland Government if invited, and to send a Commission to inquire into the cause of the crisis. The panic is now subsiding. Washington, December 18. Other leaders connected with the .recent railway strikes have been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Paris, December 16. It has been discovered that a number of French soldiers serving in African regiments are tainted with Anarchist principles, and are corrupting newly-joined conscripts, A number have undergone imprisonment, and the authorities are taking strong measures to maintain military discipline. Sydney, December 18. A serious collision occurred in the harbor this evening. The tug boat Awhina ran into the guard boat Princess between Middle Head and Watson’s Bay. The latter was making the usual round of forts, and had about fifty persons on board, including some officers with wives and children. The Awahina struck her almost amidships, and she canted over so suddenly that twenty persons, including the captain, were thrown into the water. The skipper succeeded in clambering on board again and although the fires were extinguishsd by the inrush of water he managed with the steam already up, to beach the vessel in Chowder Bay. Boats promptly reached the scene of the disaster and picked up many, but owing to the distance from town, authentic details are not yet received. It is believed a daughter of Major Bridges and a daughter of Mr Bond, bank manager, are missing. Two others of Bridges’ children and a numof ladies were rescued in a very exhausted condition.

Casey, agent for the New Australian settlement, is appealing for funds to send several families to Paraguay, whose husbands have already gone there. These families have suffered considerably through the collapse, leaving them practically destitute, and the organisation here is absolutely without funds.