SATURDAY'S CABLES.

Southland Times, Issue 9780, 19 March 1888, Page 2

SATURDAY'S CABLES.

(United Press Association : By Eles' trig Telegraph— UomiKHiT.). JPABIS, Mar. 17. A subsequent motion to that agreed to by the Cuamber of Dbputies abolishing ihe wine duties was tabled propos ng an increase of duty on alcohol, After con eidorable discussion the latter motion was I rejected, thus upsetting the couiuiittee'e whole echeme. BRUSSELS, Mar. 16. Saventy different countries will be represented at the tariff conference. Austria, Germany, and France, however, will not bo represented. It ia proposed to publish the tariffs of the world in the French, English, German, and Spanish languages. NEW YORK, Mak. 16. Scores of trains containing over a thousand passengers have been blocked by snowdrifts in the States. Numbers of the passrngers were frozen to death in the embedded cars. There has been grea. wreckage on the telegraph lines, and business baa been entirely suspended in many places, SYDNEY, Mar. 17. His Excellency Lord Carrington has received a despatch from Queen Victoria stating that she is greatly gratified at the telegraphed accounts received of the bril liant and loyal celebrations which took place in commemoration of the centenary of the colony. The locomotive tender question is not yet defiohely settled, but it is understood that the workmen am disinclined to agree to the proposal of the manufacturers for a reduction of wages. The contracts will now probably be given to English firms. Tbe search for the missing municipal books and accounts has not proved successful as yet. It is believed they cover the period iv which the largest defalcations occurred. MELBOURNE, Mar. 17. The abolition of the French wine duties and the withdrawal of large supplies of Spanish «vines, will, it is expected, result in a large increase in the sale of pure Australian wjaes ia Europe,