CABLE MESSAGES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8119, 10 March 1888, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

Drj Electric Telegraph—Copyright— Received 10',3i58—9.30 a.m. DIVIDEND PAYING BANK. London, March 8. The directors of tho Bank of Australasia declare a dividend of 12 per cent., and carry forward £12,8C0 to the reserve fund. FRAUDS IN DEVONPOBT DOCKYARD. It is reported that extensive frauds havo been discovered at Devonport dockyards which compromise all ranks of tho employees there. The detectives are now making a thorough investigation into the matter. It is not yet known whether the ordinary workmen are implicated in the f-auds, bnt it is asserted that a number of officers and men on the permanent staff are mixed up in the dishonest practices which have been going on for a long time past. A number of the copper workers have already been arrested for fraudulent praotices. It is alleged that they have been in the habit of using Government material for private work, and that they have performed this private work during the hours in whioh they should have been engaged on Government work. SCOTTISH ENACTMENTS. Mr. Gladstone and Sir G. 0. Trevelyan supported the motion for a Committee to whom f U bills affecting Scotland were to be referred, BLUNT BELEASED FBOM GAOL. Mr. Wilfred Blunt has been released from Galway Gaol. ITALIAN TARIFF WAR. Rome, Maroh 9. The tariff war with France is exciting great irritation, and the Italian papers profess alarm at the movements of the French troops on the frontier. AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Adelaide, March 9. The direotors of the MaoDonnell Ruby Mine Co. have accepted the offer of English capitalists to purchase the mines, subject to the decision being affirmed by the shareholders. Melbourne, March 9. A serious burglarly epidemio has broken out in this oity, and four oases were reported to-day. Eighty new constables have recently been sworn in. The police Here have been requested to enquire into the -whereabouts of Charles Blaokenburn, arohitect, of Sydney, who left on a trip for the benefit of his health at the end of 1886, and subsequently a telegram was received that he had arrived at Danedin. Since then it has been ascertained that the telegram was not sent by himself, and no trace can be found of him. Sydney, March 9. There is a hitch in the construction of the great Hawkesbury bridge, two cylinders being found out of the perpendicular, and will have to be set right before the superstructure can be erected. Six racehorses wre bnrnt to death in a stable near Mudgee last night. It | is supposed to be a case of incendiarism. The question oj the legality of sell- \ ing newspapers on Sunday was settled by the Court of Appeal to-day, the decision being against the defendant, who had been fined by the Magistrate. He applied for an order restraining the Magistrate's decision, being against him, and went to the senior Court, which has, after considerable delay, confirmed the decision, one Judge dissenting. Brisbane, March 9. The Rockhampton harbormaster, who went out in search of the ship Eastminster and brigantine Kate, has returned. He reports finding a quantity of wreckage of a character leading him to believe that the ship Eastminster capsized and foundered. Mrs. White, who was shot by her husband while he was in a frenzied state from drink, is seriously wounded, but is expected to recover. Mrs. White only arrived here in February, and married White after a fortnight's acquaintance. White is given to drink, and the couple had arranged to live separately, and the wife was on the eve of her departure when the tragedy occurred. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] RELATIONS OF THE G.O.M. AT AUCKLAND. Auokland, March 10. Captain and Miss Gladstone, nephew and niece of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, are at present staying at Waiwera. ANOTHER TREE ACCIDENT. A man named Walter Morley was killed at Dargaville to-day by tbe limb of a tree falling upon him. It is the intention, it is said, of Mr T. Oldfield, who has purchased Te Henui ironsand works, to have a trial smelting of the sand with tho agenoy of charcoal and kiln-dried wood as soon aa convenient. After this he intends to go Homo with the ono who hud charge of the smelting and demonstrate to capitalists the smelting procese, and what the working of it would probably return commercially, in order that ho can get cnpitalists to put money in tho venture. A few alterations will have to be made at the furnaco, and kilns will have to be erected before the trial can be made. When tho projected trip Home cornea off, and by whom Mr Oldfield will bo uccompanied when it does, is not definitely known. On Friday night the through train from Wellington wns crowded with passengers, tho unusual increase in the travelling public being composed of about 40 Auckland " shootistß" on their way home from the Association Rifle mooting at Oamaru. AH the passengers for Auckland went on to tho breakwater, where the Gairloch was waiting for them. The passenger list was bo big that an extra pantry hand was taken on, the aspirant for oteward's honors being a local gardener, who was engaged oif tho breakwater for tho trip up and down. BuoHU-pAiflA." —Quick, complete euro, all annoying Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary Diseases. At chemists and druggists. Kempiharno, Froouer & Co,, Agte, Welling* tOB, Urn

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