CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2758, 25 November 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, November 21. Mrs Mary Jeffries, on a charge of keeping a brothel, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined £4OO. • Mrs Mrie3 obtained great notoriety about two years ago, when she was fined £2OO on a similar charge.' Mr P. T. Barnum's loss by the recent fire is estimated at 700,000 dollars, Incendiarism is suspected.

Aboub Khan will return to Teheran. Mr Cecil Eaikes, Postmaster-Gen-eral, claims that the carriage of parcels shall be included in the new mail contracts, but the companies object to the proposal. November 22. Tho Sugar Bounty Conference will commenco sitting on Thursday. The Anti-Bounty Society have decided to urge the abolition of drawbacks. The steamship companies contend thai in the agreemont recently entered into for the carriage of mails to the colonies, no provision was made for carrying parcels by post. Mr Cecil Bailees, the Postmaster-General, is trying to overcome the difficulty.

The Northumberland Miners Union which carried a resolution in September last, refusing to continue the allowance, to- Mr Thos. Burt, M.P. for ; Morpeth, and Mr Charles Eonwick, %t for- Wansb'eclt, lwe now resoinied' tliftHwhitiott,,

WNDONMD COLONIAL WOOL SALES. London, November 22. • The fifth, series of Colonial wool auctions opened to-day in tho presence of ai large attendance of Home and foreign buyers. An animated demand was manifested for the various lots offered. The number of balo3 catalogued was 900.

November 28. At the opening of the colonial wool sales yesterday there was brisk competition, the prices realised being equal-to the closing rates of last series. , • ' •

Melbourne, November 23,

Messrs Goldsborough find Co., Limited, hold their usual weekly sale this afternoon, lho attendance .wa3 large and competition brisk, prices ranging from 6£d to ll£d for greasy, and; Is tola for scoured wools. All light-conditioned merino and crossbredß met with a good demand. Six thousand three hundred balos have been sold by the firm during the past week.

Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. have received' tho following cable messago from their London friends, Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Co., regarding the fifth series of the wool salo3:—" London, November 22.Sales have opened flat. Large attendance of buyers. A poor selection is offered. ■ For scoured faulty - the market is weaker. Crossbred market shows no change. Other descriptions market is dull. The New Zealand Loan aud Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 22nd. insfc: Wool—The sales opened fairly well to-day at the level of last sales, except for short staple merino scoured, for which the market is easier. The attendance by both Home and foreign buyers is good, aud competition fairly active. The sales comprise about 131,000 bales. 10,000 bales liavo been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. Tallow; Market, firm. WHAT'S IN A NAME. Sydney, November 24, At yesterday's evening sitting of the Assembly, the Bill authorising the name of the colony being changed to " Australia" passed the first reading on a division by 58 to 18. Considerable opposition to the new name is manifested, both in this and other colonies, and the proposal lias been discussed by the Yictorian, South Australian.and Queensland Assemblies, the idea being generally ridiculed as an unwarrantable assumption of the federal name by a siuglo colony.

ANOTHER LAD CRUSHED''AT GRBYMOUTH. . Greymouth, November 24,; _ A young boy named Henderson was killed near Wallsend station yesterday. Anumber of boys wercplaying pushing trucks backwards and forwards, when Henderson slipped and fell beneath' a truck in motion aud liis abdomen was crushed. He died a few hours afterwards.

THE FRENCH CRISIS. Paris, November 22. M. Clcmenceau has declined to undertake the formation of a Ministry. M. Grovy then summoned MM. Preycinet and Ploquet'who in turn also-declined to form a Cabinet. The President who is obdrate in his intention. not to resign, has now summoned M. Brisson. M. Clemenceau lias, informed M. Grevy that he will,best serve tho Republic by resigning the Presidency. ■ London, November 22.

It is feared that unless General Boulanger Is included in the new Cabinet an outbreak will occur,-and in consequence extremely precautionary measures have been adopted by General Saussier, Military Governor of Paris.

Prince Napoleon has issued a manifesto, in which be asserts that President Grevy must retire, and'further that a Government emanating direct from the people will alone be able to govern France. M. Grevy, the Presidont of France, having refused to resign, tho Chamber of Deputies negatived a motion for the suppression of the Presidency, but decided to take extreme measures to maintain peace and order in Paris.