INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 95, 21 April 1880, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

<_ i . ' " " v -~ " ' ' Me'lbo uknb, Tuesday: The sugar market' is strong, and brisk inquiry is expected. 2,000 pockets which were advcrtised'for sale hay e.been withdrawn. Thtf D'ifedtora-of tlie Mea't:Freezing»Companytwaited upon the Commission of Cus-toms;.to-dayiito urge the abolition. of the stock Jax, and declaring that, it, .would be impossible j while the same existed to establish a meat industry. The Commissioner replied that he could' not hope at to be able to comply with thb.r_4uest of; the Company. '.'<...'- Wednesday, j, At a Cabinet Meeting held yesterday it was resolved to- support Sir Charles Macmahon for. the Speakership. Mr Lalor is also a'carididate. ; ' . *- ""■ Sydney, Tuesday. Thd .Exhibition waa: closed to day by His Excellency the Governor in accordance wilh the programme. There waa a large concourseM people. , : The address delivered by tbe Executive Commissioner stated that there was 14i000; exhibits, the number,of awards DeTng^qrd;;; firsts, 2;753 ; seconds, 2 082. The number .of admissions were 1,022^000. Thß „receipts, .receipts since , .opening were under = £50,OOQ;,'but it unexpected they will pay expenses. The Union.' Company's steamship Arawata arrived frtiih New Zealand yesterday. A delegate holding a thousand Melbourne proxies has arrived here to oppose 1 the abolition of proxy voting, which will be proposed at the.rMutual Provident Society's meeting to-morrow. ' t :-_\\ J**" ,' „-; ;•. * .-- „->; .;. yv.-.t r.v'. !, ■Newcastle, Tuesday. The ' masters offer three and sixpence for hewing when coalis 'at ten;' shillings, and a raise -or fall* b f f twopence or threepence in the shilling on the •selling price- The miners lodges agree; to accept it. A : A '- ■■ "■m^Ke, had ■:.:■, ■-': jßrisban^,, Tuesday. . It ia understood that the Government haß received an offer from an .EDglish company to lay down a cable from Ceylon to Point JPa^ker f ri the ptttit of ;Carpenta. if; r