CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2783, 24 December 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Berlin, December 21,

Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill .have arrived in this city to-day, and proceed at an early date to. St Petersburgh.

London, December 22.

A Leadenhall Market Company, for the cold ' storage of frozen meat, with a capital of £IOO,OOO has been formed.

French exhibitors intend making a good display at the Melbourne exhibition, but require an extension, of time. The Times eulogises the speech of the Earl of Carnarvon at the Mayoral banquet in Melbourne. The Union Mortgage Agency Company of Australia has converted 175,000 terminable 5 per cent bonds into. 4$ debentures. Sydney, December 22,

All extonsive fire broke out at Redfern to-day, Horden's furniture factory ■being almost entirely destroyed. The' damage is estimated at about £20,000, of which £12,000 is covered by insurance. The risk; is divided between several offices. 'Melbourne, December 23. ; It is announced that Mr F. W. Pennefather, of Wellington has been appointed Law Lecturer to the Adelaide University. Owing to the distress prevailing amongst the working classes,, large numbers of artizans are emigrating to Queensland as farm laborers. The Lord Mayor of London has opened a fund to provide £20,000 to lay out pleasure grounds in London, in order to give work and afford relief to the unemployed. Mrs Gordon Bailie, of New South Wales has obtained several grants of laud in Australia for the purpose of establishing settlements of Skye Crofters, and she has applied to the Imperial Government for assistance in facilitating their immigration.