TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6703, 16 November 1889, Page 3

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. LATER EDITION.

LB7 SLXCTBIO 3JSI.2EOJ24P*.— COPTJUSiIT.] [Special to Peebs Association.] ffieceirod Mot. 16. mt 12.10 p.m.l LONDON. Not. 14. Australian Cruisers. The first of the new Australian cruisers will be launched on Nov. 25, at the yards of Sir W. Or. Armstrong, Mitchell and Company. The ceremony of christening the vessel will be performed by Lady Samuel, wife of the Agent-General for New South Wales. The second! cruiser launched will be christened by Lady Berry, wife of the AgentGeneral for Victoria. Phil Robinson. Phil Robinson, the war correspondent, who visited the Colonies recently, has been declared a bankrupt. One Law for the Rich, &c. It is stated that certain untitled and comparatively speaking obscure members of the West End t Club, in connection with which a horrible scandal was reported a few days ago, are being indicted secretly, on charges resembling those which some years ago were made against certain members of the aristocracy, known as the Bolton-Park scandal. The Press are protesting that such charges should not be heard privately, and that distinction should not be made between the offenders, some of whom, it is alleged, have been allowed to make their escape. The Dockers. The Dockers' surplus is dwind- j ling. The Tilbury foremen and j clerks refused to join the Labourers' TJnion on the ground that to do so would be contrary to their agreement with their employers, and would cause the forfeiture of their pensions. ! Many labourers were opposed to the strike, which was* organised in order to compel the foremen and clerks to a join the Union. pg ; i£awiT«4 Hot. 19. tAUJSO pj».l

£2300 to the Bock labourers' Union. The Finance Committee mil dissolve on Saturday, BEBLIN, Nov. . Ji, Emperor William, The Emperor William has arrived at Innsbruck, where he met with a cordial reception. PABIS, N«v. 14, Paris Exhibition. The Exhibition surplus has reached the sum of 8,000,000 francs, inclusive of subsidies. LBsceived Nov.' 16, at 13.30 p.m. I LONDOK, Nov. 15. Arbitration Courts. Mr John Aird, M.P. for Paddington, in the course of a speech, Buggested that a Royal Commission should be appointed to enquire into and report on the labour question, with a view to the creation of Courts of Arbitration. Australian Dominion. The Times publishes a letter from Sir T. Coekburn Campbell, M.L.0., Western Australia, on the question of granting responsible government to that Colony. He suggests that all unoccupied and unassigned territory in Western Australia ought to remain under Imperial control until handed over to a Federal Government in trust for a future Australian Dominion. Commenting on the subject, the Times thinks that the scheme for a division of the Colony as suggested by Sir James Q-. Lee Steer, Speaker of the Legislative Council, should prove acceptable to all parties, with small concessions from both Bides. Obituary. Sir Samuel Morton Peto, engineer, aged eighty. Deceased was engaged in the construction of large railways in England and Canada ; he also constructed the railway at Balaclava, in the Crimean war, in 1854. [Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bart., was born at Woking, Surrey, on August 4 1809. He served an apprenticeship of seven years with his uncle, Mr Henry Peto, an extensive builder, at whose death in 1830 he succeeded tc a moiety or the business, Ms partner being Mr Thomas GrisEell, another nephew o£ the deceased. The partnership was dissolved by mutual consent in 1845, Mr Grissell continuing on his own account the erection of the Houses of Parliament, the greatest of the many public buildings undertaken by the firm. Among these structures are Hungerford Market and the Reform and Oxford and Cambridge Club-houseß. Sir Samuel M. Peto constructed a large portion of the leading railway works in England, and waa engaged in the formation of a large railway in Canada. Among his most important worka are the Norwegian Grand Trunk line and the Royal Danish line in 1854. Upon the opening of the latter, he received from the King of Denmark the Order of the Dannebrog. Towards the close of 1854 he undertook, without prospect of profit, the construction of a railway from Balaclava, in the Crimea, originated by the late Duke of Newcastle, then Minister at War, and in appreciation of these patriotic services received a patent of baronetcy, Feb. 22, 1855. Bloomsbury Chapel waa built for the Baptists at his expense ; and the Diorama premises in the Regent's Park were purchased by him and converted into a chapel for the same denomination. He was returned aa one of the members in the advanced Liberal interest for Norwich in August, 1847, and again at the general election in July, 1852, and retired in December, 1854. He was elected one of the members for Finsbury in April, 1859, and at the general election in July, 1865, exchanged thiß seat for Bristol, but retired from Parliament in April, 1858, in consequence of the bankruptcy of the firm of Peto, Betts, and Crampton, with liabilities of above .£7,000,000. He iB the author of "Taxation, itß Levy and Expenditure," 1863 ; and " Resources and Prospects of America," 1866.] Sydney Organ. It is expected that Professor Hoyle will open the new Sydney organ. Another Atlantic CableThe Canadian Atlantic cable to Clew Bay, Ireland, will be laid shortly. [Received Nov. 16, at 12.35 p.m."] MELBOUBNErNov. 16." Small-pox. The local Board of Health have requested Government to prosecute the captain of the Mesßageries Maritime Company's Tarra, on board of which the case of small-pox was discovered, for suppressing the fact of the outbreak. Sir H. B. Loch. Sir Henry Brougham. Loch, who has been appointed High Commissioner for Cape Colony, sailed for Cape Town yesterday. , Acquitted. John Stephens, who was arrested in October last on a charge of murdering a Chinaman named Ga Yong, some months previously, has been acquitted by a jury. Monetary and Commercial. [Bea«iT«d Nov. 16, at 12.45 p.m.] LONDON, Nor. 15. Hemp ia in slow demand. One hundred and thirty bales of New Zealand flax gold at -228. New Zealand mutton, 4|d. Beef — Hindquarters are quoted at 4<L The total amount of reserve in the Bank of England is £11,970,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is4lf per cent. Consols are active at 97£. New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock* 106£ ; market active. Australian wheat, ex warehouse, 39s 3d ; New Zealand long-berried,. ex store, 37a 9d; market steady. Sugar, German beet, lla 9d; J&ra, 14s. , The tallow market is declining. Btsfc mutton, 25s 6d to 265; beef, 255. No. 1 bestrScotch pig iron, f .o.b. in, Clyde,;.62s 9d ; market active,