AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1880, 18 April 1889, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, April 15. Owing to the strike the Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat, has been closed, and 600 bands are thrown out of employment, ( Sailed—Taupe, for the Bluff, April 16. Captain Whitney has re-opened negotiations for the establishment of a cartridge factory in Victoria, and it is expected that an agreement will be signed shortly on the following basis : The Government to pay a bonus of £SOOO after half a million rounds of ammunition have been manufactured, approved, and delivered to the Goyernment, the Government to take two million rounds yearly, and pledge the colony to purchase the factory in twentyfive years. Sydney, April 15. The Teknpo sailed for Wellington at half-past six this evening with Lord Onslow’s family on board. Arrived—Waihora, from Auckland; also, H.M. ships Lizard, .Raven, and Orlando, The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald says the Imperial and Colonial Trading Company talk of practically running the River Plate mutton out of the English market. Some doubt, however, is felt whether it is not prepared to take more mutton than New Zealand ean produce, April 16.

Herr Stebel, the recently appointed German Consul at Samoa, has arrived in Sydney. Heavy rains have fallen during the last two days, interrupting communication on the overland lines and delaying cable messages. There is not much betting at present on the autumn meeting. Abercoru has hardened for the Cap to 3 to 1, and Manton has been knocked back to 100 to 3, at which figure he is friendless. The ketch Maggie Taylor foundered off Ofimdenfcown, and four persons were drowned, two seamen named Orlean and Hogg, and Mrs Taylor and her son who were passengers.