SATURDAY’S CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 12784, 18 December 1893, Page 2

SATURDAY’S CABLES

2 I?/*.''' Ss'tv? .... British .and Foreign -, LONDON; Dec,. 15. Senator Voorhees has introduced into the U.S, Congress a bill providing for the free coinage of silver, the operation to yield to the -Treasury a seignorage of two million dollars'monthly,'and -afterwards-providing for tfie purchase, of silver bullion; for coinage' to a similar extent, fi It is reported that the statement that the Imperial Government intend" to spend eight millions on : additions to the navy is premature, and fience Lord George Hamilton’s energy in pressing the question on the earnest attention of. Parliament.; The Bank of England reserve amounts to L 17,192,000, and the percentage of reserve to liabilities is 52 - _9B. ■ 1 ' ,f j - ConsolSj' 98. Discount — Three months’ bills, "2J per" cent? 'New ’Zealand four per cents, 106 ; New Zealand three and a halfs; long berried, 39s 3d per 'quarter; Adelaide, 30s; Victorian, 29s 6d—demand restricted.

Frozen Mutton. —New Zealand first quality, 41 .per lb ; 3gd. The market is depressed.. . Lanibj first, d. Tfie hemp market' is,' ; quibt. A hundred bales of New Zealand'were sold at Ll 7 per: ton. ’ ''

Sugar—German beet, 12s 3d—quiet; Java ’ carie,'lss flat. Ji Pig iron, - 44 s per - ton, f.0.b., Clyde'— :ii CdhtihentM! buj’ersrtbdk' l petdeeht. of: the . wool-soldVab last sales and American' fiuyers only 500 bales. For the series there were catalogued 169,400 bales, of which’ s 154,000 w ere sold,-,and, 22,000 held over. ; " Danisfi Butter iff fetching 1225. Scottish and provincial buyers of colonial butter are selling large quantities ..in London, they having'been unable to place it in their own localities. i _

The American league at Honolulu appeal to the United States .people to; prevent the' restoration of a corrupt monarchy. ’Tfießancli Populare, Rome, has applied ■Tdr'ambratdriutn."! atutj f One hundred and forty-three Anarchists areTmprisoned.in Barcelona; f ;

Australian

MELBOURNE, Deo. 16j ; At. Werribco .a rabbiter named Fitzsim'mohs attacked his wife - with a pick handle, beat his father-in-law almost to death, ahd tfififfattempted suicide with a razor. There -is - noMibpe' for* the father-in-law, but some for the recovery of. the others. * : Tfie ; Minister fol l Lands has received a communication from an association formed ciff Adelaide-twestablish a co-operative set? tlemeht on the lines of “ New Austra'ia,” asking the Victorian Government whether it will grant 100,000 acres, with the right of .enlarging the area .to ,Ok quarter of a million? If tfie lafid laws;will not allow them to take up the land they "ask the Government! to" grant it on perpetual lease. The Minister has replied that there is no suitable area available, and asks for further details as' to the objects of the-association. , In a. cricket match at Carlton a bowk r, achieved a sensational performance, taking; seven wicket?, for nine balls, six being? iff succession. ADELAIDE, Dec. 16; The Northern Territorybudget showsthat its finances are going’ from bad; to worse. Were.it. not for the interest on the, debt incurred for public .works the revenue would meet tfie"expenditure. ! , , - Jn the cricket match,. South- Australia, v; New South Wales, the foTrner are all out for 106—Lyons 33, ,G. Giffen 47. New South; Wales has two wickets s down tor 27. The ground was wet.'

SYDNEY, Dec. 16.; if I /The representatives of the Nqrthern'-'col-' liers have arrived at an understanding'that ; when the selling price' of'coal 8s per ton : j the hewing'rate is t'o be 2s 10(1, with a slid- '> iog scale of a penny in each threepenny rise I in the selling price.', < ■ A letter, passed ; by a council of the ; churches and sighed' by ‘the Primhte,'urges' the electrits'to’cdhsider hot'bhly the capacity 1 but to,give special weight'; toi'the claims and | character of candidates. .' - 1 2Smsbane, : l)eo. X■; ■t A strong detachment'of: police and trackers has' been deapatched to Ducia river in pursuit of-the Nativermurierqrfl.; c-3 - ' 'eiioiac9 S 16/'■ Eight aborigines were burned to death in 16 nojJuJiJ.-iHt aWclijadu adi c: j: J’.-iri.yi.r—rnTTT? . ji'osDiv-'