NEWS BY CABLE.

Southland Times, Issue 14516, 16 December 1899, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

LIBRE PAROLE TOO FREE IN ITS LANGUAGE BOTTOMLEY AT IT AGAIN ■ TRAGEDY AT BROKEN HILL: MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE WESTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS AGITATION THE ETHEL TRAGEDY ANOTHER FIRE AT KAIMA COLONIAL DINNER SPEECHES STOCKS PRODUCE AND METAL MARKETS BRITAIN SIGNS THE PEACE CONVENTION AGREEMENT CAPE STEAM LINES AMALGAMATE (United Press Association. — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 14 The Paris newspaper Libre Parole has been heavily fined for libelling M. Labori by referring to the wound inflicted by the would-be assassin during the Dreyfus trial as fiction. Justice Bigham, of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, has granted Lloyd’s Bank L 10 ,826 damages against Horatio Bottomley, the well-known speculator, who lodged a worthless transfer with the bank as security for an overdraft. Wheat : The American visible supply is 86,757,000 bushels. Latest. LONDON, Dec. 15. Received 13th, 11 p.m. At the South Australian dinner the Duke of Cambridge presided, and said he did so because he always had had the greatest admiration for the colonies and was delighted the anxiety of every colony to join in the honourable, dangerous and painful duties af war. Such action produced an enormous effect on those who were jealous of our united Empire. Dr Cockburn, AgentGeneral, said that federation came not from outside compulsion, but internal attractions, and the colonies were never so close to the Motherland as now. Lord Kelvin proposed “ The Empire” and Lord Halsburg, in replying, said the present spectacle of all her children engaged in preserving the mother’s supremacy was unparalleled in the world’s history. Received 16th, 0.55 a.m.

Lord Salisbury announces that Great Britain has signed the Hague Convention relating to pacific settlements of disputes and the laws and customs of warfare on land, and is willing to adopt the Geneva Convention in maritime warfare, with a reservation of Article V. The directors of the Union and Castle steam lines to the Cape have agreed upon terms of amalgamation. Received 16th, 1.12 am. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the stock of gold, coin, and bullion to be L 28,141,000; the reserve, L 18,008,000; and the proportion cf reserve to liabilities, 42-40; notes in circulation, L 28,597,000 ; public deposits amount to L 5,557,000; and other deposits, L 36,757,000; Government securities, L 12,061,000; and other securities, L30’152,000.

Three months’ bills are discounted at 6 per cent. Consols, Colonial securities -r- New South Wales 4 per cents, 113 ; 3|’s, 103 ; 3’s, 100 ; Victorian 4’s, 109; 3J’s, 102 ; 3’s, 94 ; South Australian 3£ s, 106; 3’s, 94 ; Queensland 4’s, 108 ; 3J’s, 103 ; New Zealand 4’s, 109|; 3 j’s, 104 ; 3’s, 95; Tasmanian 3|’s, 1031-; West Australian 3|’s, 103£. Tin: Spot, LI 12, three months, Lll2 15s.

No. 1 Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. on Clyde, 66s 2d per ton. Sugar is firm—Java cane, Ils 9d per cwt; German beet, 9s lid. The Bradford wool market is quiet—common sixties, 31d ; supers, At Antwerp! tops (December) (May), 6-50; Roubaix, 6-76 to 6-75. Cold weather is hardening the European wheat markets, while the stringency of money is slightly depressing the American. The cold is stimulating the butter market, and there is a good demand for choicest Colonial at 104 s to 106 s, Danish is unchanged. There is good enquiry for N.Z. cheese and Canadian is strong at 59s to 60s. Australian SYDNEY, Dec. 15. A Broken Hill miner named Hensel quarrelled with a woman, when the latter’s sister, Mrs Jensen, interfered, and received a fatal shot- A man named Whetstone, in disarming Hensel, was severely gashed on the cheek with a razor. Hensel then cut his own throat, and his condition is precarious. MELBOURNE. Dec. 15 Two men have been arrested in Callingwood on suspicion of the Rutherglen highway robbery. COOLGARDIE, Dec. 15. A large meeting decided that all other means having failed to obtain Legislative redress, especially in regard to Federation, the Queen should be petitioned to grant the goldfields separation from West Australia. PERTH, Dec. 15. The British Consul at Batavia reports that thirteen of the Ethel’s crew have been arrested. The captain, the’ mate, another Australian, a Japanese and a native were murdered by them, and the ship was scuttled at South Telaroa. The Ethel was owned and commanded by Captain Riddell. His son was mate. James Taylor and 16 Asiatics were aboard. They left Roebuck Bay on 18th October.