YESTERDAY'S CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 9799, 10 April 1888, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S CABLES

« [United Press Association —By Bleotbio 'ikueqbaph — (jopykihmtj LONDON, April 7. Sailed — X.M.S. Tongariro, for New Z'jaiaud. The ship Rangitikei, from Auckland, has arrived in the Channel, April 8. New Zealand fours, 100^ ; New Zealand fives, 105|. Tallow—Mutton, 22s Sd ; beef, 24a. New Zealand wheat, 33s per quarter. Flour, 23a. BERLIN, ArRiL 8. It is probable that the betrothal of Prince Alexander of Battenberg to tha Princess Victoria will be postponed until the ceremony shall have been deprived of political importance by the settlement of the Bulgarian question. OTTAWA, April 8. The Dominion House of Commons has rejected the motion tabled by Sir R. Oartwrigbt favouring unrestricted trade reciprocity with the United Statei, by a majority of 57. MELBOURNE, April 9. A ma»B meeting of railway hands on Saturday carried a resolution protesting against the administration of Mr Allison Smith, Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, accusing him of causing an accident by altering the balancing of the whet>lp, and viewing his retention in the service with alarm. A further resolution demanded that a board of railway experts should inquire into his fitnoss for office. The Ballarat Coffee Palace fire was a very serious affair. The inmates were imprisoned in th« burning building by the falling in of the staircase, but a sailor who happened to be in the place made ropes out of the clothes, and succeeded in keeping most of the rest cool till they were lowered. A few, however, leaped from the windows an'i wore hurt. The spectators for a long time feared that a number must be burned. Two walls fell in, but the firemen escaped injury. Insurances — Colonial office, L 300 0; New Zsaland. LISOO. The loss is estimated at double the amount of the ineuranoes. ADELAIDE, April 9. Mrs Rout, a lady from New Z9aland j who had booked by the Bteamer Paramatta, for London, died yesterday of heart disease, and was buried to-day. SYDNEY, April 9. It is intended to organise a corps of infantry under the name of Bush Cavalry, und 'dißband the Sydney Laacers. Cardinal Moran leaves on the Bth May on a visit to the Pope, returning ia November.