LATE CABLE NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3570, 10 March 1886, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(By Telegraph.) (Per steamer at the Bluff.) (Special, to the Melbourne "Age." London, Feb. 26. A protest sent by the Chief Secretary o Victoria, Mr Deakin, on behalf of the Vie torian vignerons, against the restrictions .pro posed to be placed on the sale of Australiai •wines at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition has been forwarded by Mr Murray Smith, thi A gent- General, to the Secretary of the Exhi bition Royal Commission. The Standard m a leading article to-da; declares that the continual seclusion of thi Queen must prove disastrous to the monarchy * Feb. 28. Government havo promised Mr Hennike: Heaton that they will consult the Australia! Colonial Governments with reference to th' advisableness of inaugurating a system o penny postal cards between England and th colonies. Australian wines are to be sold at th Colonial and Indian Exhibition by eac) colony m its own Court, under the control 0 the Commissioners. The rate charged will b an advance of ten per cent on growers' price to cover expenses. Intelligence of the suspension of paymen by the Commercial Bank of Australia ha seriously alarmed English depositors, who or expressing their anxiety to receive full detail of the position of affairs. Holders of assets i: the company are purchasing claims against th Bank. The Economist expresses an opinio that public confidence m Australian securitie remains unshaken. March 1. Mr Broughton, formerly deputy-master o tho Melbourne branch of the Royal Mint, an< who was lately suffering from brain disease is dead.