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Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7193, 12 December 1891, Page 3

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Reoeived December 12, at 2 a.m. GREECE WARNED. PRINTERS' STRIKE. NEWS FROM ISLANDS. SYDNEY MARKETS. SHIPPING, MISSING SHIP. THE FIGHT IN N.S.W. DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. FARMERS AND LABORERS. COLLIER WRECKED. BANK ROBBERY. LOSSES AT LLOYDS. ANOTHER BANKER " ON THE WINO," FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. RIOTS IN RIO JANIERO. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. GALES AND SHIPWRECK. NEW HEBRIDES. ISLAND NEWS. NO-CONFIDENCE DEBATE, SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. CHARGE OF DEFRAUDING. LONDON, December 11. Lord Salisbury warna tbe Greek Government tbat if their courts persist in denying . justice to British suitors, investors will withdraw their capital. The barque Habel, bound from New York to N6lson via Freemantle, in Western Australia, ia posted as misßJDg. The .managers of the Radical party have arrangod a conference, in the Cattle Show week, between farmers aud laborers, to discuss the question of rural reform. It is expected there will be a preponderating attendance of laborers. Representatives fares will be paid for all who attend. Mr Gladstone will address the Conference. The collier Drumbtair, from Cardiff to Adelaide, has gone on the rocks in the British Channel. The crew were saved. The Duke of Devonshire has rallied again. Eight hundred pounds in gold and cheques was stolen from the counter in Glyn's Bank. Nino more underwriters resign in connection with Lloyds, in consequence of losses, and some alarm is felt. The total amount of resorvo in the Bank of England is £15,168,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 43.34 por oent. Consols 95J. New Zealand 4 per cent inscribe! stock 101_ ; 3J per cent ditto 91}. Tnree months' bills aro quoted at 2J per cent. New Zealand longberried wheat ie 45s 6d, the market being quiet ; for off coaßt cargoes sellers ask 445, but buyers are only willing to give 43. Canterbury mutton, 3£ d ; beef, forequartew, 2 P. . . New Zealand hemp is quiet, prioes unchanged. Colonial barley 31s 6d, oats, fine, 80s 6d. Adelaide wheat 46b 3d, market flat Victorian 45s 9d, weaker. Wool remains firm and prioes show no ohange. •••_»■ Sugar, German beet, 14s 6d Java 16 both quiet. No. 1 beat Sootbh pig iron in 0 47s 4Jd.

ft ,'? ne ."?iy :< l uc Dominion, bound for Port Pirie, liiis been wrecked in a gale in the Channel.: . The Durham, bound for Sydney, the Koonnga, for Adelaide, and the Timaru, for Auckland, have all had to put back, owing to a terrific gale. BERLIN, December 10. Adolph Albert, a banker of Gorlitz town, in Silesia, has absconded. His liabilities are two million marks. One depositor alone loses eight hundred thousand marks. By a colliery explosion at Heremsdorf, in bilesia, twenty miners were : killed and many injured. '\ ' RIO DE JANIEROj , Deoember 10. The Province of Bio Janiero is in a state of lei'Vftont. i> Riots have occurred at Cumpos, in Whioh 10 persons are reported killed and 30 injured. SIDNEY, December 11. The^ German printers have appealed to the Colonial . Unions for assistance to enable them to keep up the strike. Arrived— Goldfinoh, from the Islands. She reports thafH.M.B. Cordelia and the French warship. Saone visited Port Sandwich, and arrested weight natives for the murder of two Frenchmen. They were tried, found guilty, and deported to Noumea-. - - Potatoes, locally •grown, are quoted at £4 lOs to £5. . . ... The Press roundly condems Sir H. Parkes' action in assailing Mi* Reid anc. siding with the Government.^ The 'Telegraph' terms him the Premier's newest recruit, and characterises hia attempt to justify his Protection vote as a reeking mass of bad logic and worse taste. He did a crueller wrong to his political reputation than his worst enemy would have been able to inflict. The 'Sydney Morning Herald ' says SirH. Parkes exceeded its utmost expectations, both in the way he assailed and humiliated : his own party, and in the way he at once gratified his opponents and did their work. The hatyest . in ' Riverina is nearly completed.' Though' tbe yields are hardly as good as last year, • the bulk' of ' the grain is much, better in quality. H.M.S Dart returned from a cruise among the Islands to-day. While at the New Hebrides a number of chiefs requested that the.. islands should be placed under British protectorate. The captain, suggested that they should, memorialize the authorities. News from the Gilbert group announces the death of Tenbinok, King of Aparoana. Sir Henry Parkes explains that in the warmth ol debate be said he would vote for tho Government, whereas what he meant to cay was that he would not vote for Mr Reid's motion, and could not support the Government. He explained tbe position he took up to the Opposition whip before he left, but that gentleman apparently said nothing in order to make matters look bod ag«inst him. Sullivan wishes to row for the championship and £200 ft Aide. Bnd states if Stanebury will not make a match for this amount, he will claim the championship. MELBOUBNE, December 11. Ai rived— Wairarapa, yesterday. Mr Monro, tbe Premier, has announced that he will accept the Commissioner of Audits' figures as correot. Larkin is charged with defrauding the South Melbourne Permanent Building Society of £55,000. Bail was fixed at £10,000. It is believed that the total defalcations will eventually reaoh £100,000.