TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 137, 9 December 1893, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright OPENING OF THE MANCHESTER CANAL LABOR LEGISLATION IN AUSTRIA. THE ALLEGED ATROCITIES •IN THE SOUTH SEAS. (PED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) London, December 7. The imports of the United Kingdom for last month show a decrease of L 3,010,000,, 010,000, and exports a decrease of £895,000. Mr Gladstone declinrs to interfere in Ihe strike of Scotch miners until both sides ask him to do so. The body of the lute Dowager Duchess of St. Albans has been cremated. Sir W. T. Marriott, one of the tiro members representing Brighton, and a Conservative, has resigned his seat in the House of Commons. December 8. The shareholders of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank have re-elected the old directors. Mr 0. J. Hegan, the chairman, made a favorable statement as to the prospects of the bank, and announced the old shareholders bad taken 44159 new shares. Mr L M. Suiythe, is lying ill. at the Savage Club, of pneumonia. ■ The dispute between the Victorian treasury and the Associated Banks, re specting the loan raised in 1891 was referred to MrOmlders, who awarded the Government £2,100. The first seagoing ship passed through the canal and reached Manchester to day The Queensland Investment Land and Mortgage Company's debentures have risen to 70; New Zealand Loan and Mrcantile debenture stock, 881. It is doubtful whether the statutory meeting of the Company will be held before January in consequence of the inter* vent ion of the Christmas holidays. Lord Jersey read a paper on "New South Wales before the Imperial Institute in somewhat guarded terms. He remarked that Australia's greatest drawback was want of population. He advocated the construction of irrigation work*, though he thought it doubtful whether money for the purpose could be borrowed at present. Under sagacious leaders Trades Unionism would not be j dangerous. He adnsed a lienlthier re cognition of the rights of capital. His Lord>hip praised S:r George Dibb's finaacial courage, but Sir Henry Parkes, in his opinion, was the greatest political farce in Australia A London syndicate is prepared to make an immediate advance to the Melbourne Board of Works of £200,000 pending the raising of the £800,000 loan to be issued early in the year, provided security be given that is quotable on the London Stock Exchange. The syndicate will not accept deposit receipts as security because they are not quotable. The Australian shipping companies contemplate raising the measurement freights by the mail steamers to 3os per ton. Constantinople, December 7. Admiral Commerell and Mr Maxim, the military inventor, having inspected the Bosphorus forts, the Sultan, upon receiving their report, ordered tbe forts tp be immediately strengthened. Rome, December 8. Signor Zanardelli failed in his effort to form a Cabinet owing to his inability to suitably fill the portfolio of Minister of Finance. He could not find a member of the Chamber of Deputies willing to assume the office. Vienna. December 7. The Reichsrath has passed the Workmen's Insurance Bill. Under its provisions employers will be compelled to pay 90 per cent of the premiums. Pabis, December 7. In the trial of the brothers Rodngue at Brest on a charge of piracy and murder in tbe South Seas, the prisoners declare that tbe cook's story, accusing them of shooting the captain of tbe schooner, poisoning the crew, and enslaving a number of Kanakas, is an invention. Tbe evidence taken at Tahiti in regard to the charge is being read in Court.