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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 45, 1 July 1890, Page 2

Cablegrams.

The Woo! Sales.

Bank Of New Zealand Shares.

The Dockers’ Union.

LONDON,

June 27.

A ' drastic measure entitled the Directors Liability Bill, has passed its first reading in the House of Commons. It affects directors and promoters, and applies to companies launched after October Ist next.

An issue of 60,000 shares in the Australian Chilling and Freezing Company has been offered. Nelson & Co. will be employed to sell the meat. Sixteen thousand copies of Stanley’s new book were sold, on the first day. The Australian edition will arrive in the Colonies at the end of August. Earl Carnarvon is sinking. James Flett, a returned New Zealander, fell from a cliff in Orkney Islands, and died from the effects of his injuries. Lord Hartington is supporting Mr Wainwright, the Unionist candidate, against W. S. Caine, for Barrow, and the Eighty Club have put forward Mr Dunstan, a Radical. The Pelican Club has increased the amount of the purse for a fight between Slavin and M'Cauhffe to £SOOO, and the Ormonde Club is offering a similar stake. '

: Mr W. H. Smith has finally withdrawn the licensing proposals owing to the Speaker’s ruling regarding the Licensing Fund being adverse to the Government.

The Appeal Court .has upheld Anthony Gibbs & Go.’ right to recover £40;000 from the Society Des Metaux. It is considered probable the Tithes Bill will also be held over.

Lord E, Churchill’s friends are supporting a movement to secure his reentry intb the Cabinet. Miss Wiedemann’s action against Mr Walpole is to be tried again. John Burns, in unfurling the South Dock Branch Banner, emblematic of Australian support, said the Dockers Union in London comprised 23,000 members, and in provincial towns 40,000. News has been received of a revolt at Ezeroum, the capital of Armenia, owing to continued atrocities by Kurdish freebooters. Eighty Armenians and nine Turkish soldiers ..were killed in the first encounter.

The Captain of H.M.S. Emerald seized and closed two of Baird’s lobster factories.

A London Insurance Company has refused to pay to the widow the sum of £16,000 upon the death of her husband, -who perished in the Quetta disaster. The Company allege that the evidence of death is insufficient.

Colonel Fred Arthur Wellesley has become bankrupt, with liabilities of £30,000. At the wool sales on the 25th 12,000 bales were catalogued. Greasy sorts are fairly steady. The decline is chiefly in scoured merinos, which are from 7| to 10 per cent, lower. Crossbreds are from 5 to 7| per cent, lower. Sales are fixed till Ist August. At the wool sales to-day prices were unchanged. The market is dull, except for sorts suitable for. American manufactures, whose, demand is improving.

Frozen mutton quotations are unchanged. • ■. The Australian Chilling and Freezing Company has been registered with a capital of a quarter of a million. Several of Nelson and Co.’s firm are directors. A rumour is afloat that Lord Hartington will become Premier at an early date, Lord Salisbury remaining at the Foreign Office. Wool is brisker owing to the purchases for the American market. ; The Bank of New Zealand shares have risen 10s.

BERLIN, June 26. Bismarck considers England has got the best of the African bargain, especially with regard to Zanzibar. WASHINGTON. June 20. The President refuses to sanction the agreement arrived at between Lord Salisbury and. Secretary Blaine vitiM regard to the Behring Sea dispute. SYDNEY, June 27, A Bill has been introduced into the New South Wales Parliament, to enable Messrs Chaffey Bros, to establish irrigation works on the Nepean. June 28. Sailed Te Anau for Auckland. The New Zealand horse Rossiter, which won the steeplechase, at the A, J.C.winter meeting is dead. THURSDAY ISLAND, June 27. The Elsie, from Troo, in New Guinea, reports that pearl shell is plentiful there, but a Dutch frigate patrols the place and refuses to allow British vessels to work, . .' , ;