LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 96, 15 March 1888, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.-— Copyright. (PER UNITKD PRESS \BSOCIAfIOIi.) Pabis, March 13. The French exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition will be very fine, and will include Gobelin tapestry and Sevreschina. London, March 13. The conversion proposals have been well received, and all secured stocks are buoyant. Three per cent. Consols, 102$. Wool— Arrivals, 250,000 bales. Silver has fallen to 3s 7£d. Eorty-eight applications have been Teceived for the professorship of music at the Melbourne University. ; . 1 : • ' . Sidney,. March 14. A silver rush has broken out six miles from Warne, near Orange, and claims have been pegged out for miles. The stone is pronounced to be of superior quality. : A small exhibition of exhibits shown in the Adelaide Exhibition was opened by the Governor to-day in the Exhibition Building, Alfred Park. It has been got up for the purpose of filling in time before the Melbourne Exhibition. There are 650 foreign and 350 colonial exhibitors. A cantata, composed by M. Leon Caron, was performed. An ox was roasted whole on the ground, and a fireworks display was held this evening to celebrate the occasion. The Mayor at the official banquet today made an announcement which is causing considerable 'sensation. He stated that at the olose of the month he would be in a position to make disclosures respecting city officers, which are calculated to ca-ise every citizen to blush for municipal honor.. He had taken office for the fourth time with the deter* mination to expose abuses, and he had appointed a special audit at his own expense to investigate the affairs of the Corporation. } He; regretted to say that he found there.. was only too much reason for this course, and the progress report furnished would, when published, shortly bring disgrace on all concerned in the transactions which had been exposed. The speech caused great surprise. Mblboubnb, March 14. A 470z nngget has been found in the Midas Mine Ballarat. A warrant has been israed for the arrest of an officer in the EaKlish and Scottish and Australian Chartered Baak for • defalcations amounting to £2000, said to have been' usod for mining speculations. The Bgricultural statistics published by the Government giye the wleat yield as 13,300,000 bushels, which is an average of loß bushels per acre. The oat yield is 4^00,000 bushels, which is an average of 227". • . ■ The appeal made on behalf of the man Grocock, who lies under sentence of death for a murderous assault on Mr Collins, th<- stationmaster at Glenhuntly, has been dismissed. Several scientific bodies express an opinion that tbe_microbes proposed to be introduced by M. Pasteur with which to exterminate rabbits will destroy native and domesticated birds and animals.