CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2764, 2 December 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, November 29, Mr John Henry Smith has left Lord Carrington £20,000. Mr Taylor, of. Prahran, Victoria, has given a thousand pounds to found a college for Calyinistic Methodists, in Wales.. The remainder of the miners entombed in a mine at Aberdare, Glamorganshire, have been rescued. Sir Graham Berry has protested to Sir Henry Holland against New South Wales assuming the name of Australia. H.M.S., Thalia, which has sailed for Australia with relief crews for the Australian Squadron, will call at the Crozet Islands to ascertain if there are any shipwrecked mariners. Mr Cecil Bailees, the Postmaster-• General, insists that under the new mail contracts the companies shall carry parcels under the parcels post system. The companies interested have refused to carry parcels. The.authoritieg of the Colonial Office have informally assured Sir Graham Berry. that they will not support Sir Henry Parkes' proposal to call New South Wales, Australia, if the other colonies make a united protest against it, but expressed the hope that the matter may be settled locally.

M. Paul Deroulede, Chairman of the Patriotic League, threatens to invade the Palais de l'Elysee with 50,000 followers if M. Ferry is elected President,

Baron De Worms, replying, to a deputation from the London Trades Council, thought that the Bounties Conference regarded the bounties as excessive and improper. The Cologne Gazette states that England approves of and co-operates with the triple alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy.

The Board of Trade recommend that Mr lugersollj veterinary surgeon should inspect all stock shipped to the colonies.

Manchester exhibitors have applied for a hundred thousand feet of space at the Melbourne Exhibition.

WOOL SALES. Melbourne, November 30. Messrs Goldsborough k Co., limited held their usual weekly wool sale today. The attendance was good, and competition spirited, especially for the light-conditioned merino and crossbreds. Inferior wool was a shade lower in value. Inferior to good merinos realised from to lOd; superior, llfd; crossbretls from 8d to Is; superior lambswool, Is lfd, and scoured Is 6d.

London, November 29. At the wool auctions to-day. the catalogue comprised 10,700 bales, for which there«as a good demand. Napier, December 1. The local wool sales commence on the 7th inst., for which 1000 bales have been catalogued,

The N.Z. Loan aud Mercantile Agency Company (limited) have received the following telegram from their London office, dated November 29th;— Wool The sales progress firmly, but there is much irregularity in the bidding. Medium and inferior greasy have declined fdperlb; and clothing washed, faulty scoured, and short staple merino scoured, id to Id per lb, since the close of last sales. For Merino lambs the market is easier, but. other descriptions are unchanged. Competition by both Home and foreign buyers is active. Up to date 49,000 bales have been sold.

AUSTEALTAN NEWS. Melbourne, November 30. In the Assembly last night, the Premier, Mr Gillies, announced that the Government had decided to support a compromise between. Messrs Munro and Bailes upon the Licensing Bill. Notwithstanding the repeated protests of Mr Carter and those who supported him, all the amendments to the measure were rejected. The Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company's s.s. Flinders arrived from Laimceston and way ports this morning. She reports that four miles out from Georgetown (Port Dalrymple), a fire broke out aboard, and though speedily extinguished, the wool which she was carrying was considerably damaged, and 400 bundles of straw were jettisoned to avoid risk of ignition.