CABELETTES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7168, 8 March 1892, Page 2

CABELETTES.

(BY CAIiLK- I'RESS ASSOCIATION.)

The assets of the Mercantile Bank, whicti suspended payment, when realised .will pay 2Gs iii the £.

The New Zealand Shipping Coy's ship Mataura sailed for Au'ckland yesterday.

The trustees iu the estate of the Marquis of Stafford are seeking an injuno tion to prevent the Duke of Sutherland cutting timber on the Trentham estate.

The 8.M.8. Aorangi left Plyraonth yesterday for Aucklannd, via Teneriffe, Capetown and Hobart.

Ship building and other London yards continue to dismiss hands, the owners refusing to pay the panic prices for coal, which' has advanced a further la Cd per ton,

Mr fihodorick Nicholas O'Connor, O.M.G, succeeds Sir John Walsham as British Minister in Peking, the Utter having been removed to Bucharest.

The Falkland Islands have been gazetted a colony, and Sir R. P. Golds, worthy will retain the Governorship, The Fconomist declares that any colony giving an assurance to refraiu from • borrowing for the present can count on its securities having paesed the lowest poiut.

The liabilities of the Marquis of Ailesbury are set down at .£350,000. The value of the assets ia not known. Ho admits that 'his insolvency is due to betting and gambling.

The Eehrins Sea Arbitration treaty will be submitted to the Senate next week. The Marquis of Salisbury is not willing to renew the modus vivendi, but will adopt measures to prevent dealing withiu thirty miles of Privycofl: Islands.