CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 25, 9 August 1887, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

STATE-AIDED EMIGRATION; tbsifoN, 'August ft. At a irieetiiig oi the State-aided Coloniestidfi Society a sbhenie Was submitted, and it was suggested that thq capital be subscribed by the, public, with an imperial guarantee of three per cent. Interest, the colonists to grant free land to the emigrants, and the money to be repaid in thirty years at four per cent, interest. In the House of Commons Mr Kimber asked whether the Government were prepared to entertain the scheme. Mr Smith replied the question was 0! considerable importance, and the scheme Wks a hovel one. The GoVeMrtidnt would require to consider it with great care before arriving at any decision. SUGAR CONFERENCE. France, along with Italy, has consented rather reservedly to be represented St the Sugar Bounties Conference'. Wheat and sugar. Wheat cargoes, off coast, average 355. A few arrivals of sugar have been placed at £l2 4s. MINING AND MEAT INDUSTRIES. Mr B. C. Brown has sold the Bluespur mines at Tuapeka to an English Syndicate) and also arranged for’the formation ot an English company with a Capital of £lOO,OOO to supply Ndw Zealand mutton direct to the consumers without the intervention of the middlemen; CHOLERA AT MALTA. There are four cases of cholera at Malta. THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.

The strength and influence oi the Boyal Commission appointed for the Melbourne CentennialjExhibition give every satisfaction. It is expected ibatijdj sum oi £3OOO . will be available for fine art exhibits. The Vienna Chamber of Commerce is urging the Austrian Government to officially support the exhibition, and the names of seventy-five Austrian exhibitors have already been received. GAUDAUB AND HANLAN. M. St John, the backer of Gaudaur, states he instructed that oarsman to lose his race against Haolan, because the terms of the agreement had not been complied with. CRICKET. Dr. W. G. Grace has declined to join Vernon’s team of English cricketers, which is to visit Australia. ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER Sir James Fergusson, Under-Seeretary fo r Foreign Affairs, has stated that the Russian frontier line has been advanced eleven and a half miles toward Herat, Russia receiving eight hundred and seventy-five square miles of territory, and Afghanistan seven hundred and seventy square miles.