CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2846, 13 March 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Sunday Newspaper Selling, Sydney, March 10. The local press condemns the action of the Government in forcing the police to prosecute persons selling newspapers on Sundays, and declares that the sale of tramway and railway tickets must now, under the present judgment of the Court, be stopped. Broken Hill Silver, Sydney, March 10. Broken Hill shares have again reached £4OO per share, here and at Adelaide. . In Melbourne they are quoted at Babbit Diseases Boycotted, Melbourne, March 10. The Goyernmeut have received ; a communication from the Royal Society enclosing a-resolution passed at the annual meeting, advising the Australian Governments to refuse to allow the introduction of disease for the extermination of rabbits.' Later, Sydney, March 12. In connection with the recent offer made by the Government for the manufacture of locomotives. within the Colony, the local manufacturers intend to ask the workmen to consider the matter, as the work can only be taken up if the men will consent to a reduction of wage. The ironmasters say that they will accept the work if the Government will increase the price to be paid for each locomotive from £3OOO to £3270, each, and will be content with a profit of five per cent. On a former occasion the men refused to agree to q reduction in their vva^s. The Union S.§, Company of New Inland have entered into an agreement with the Government to run a ateamer to the New Hebrides regularly,

Rubies in plenty. f . ■ .•<./ i \t Rubles have ■ been fouhd in ; Broken Hill distiict Two pound3WV\ weight of stones -were picked up ill 8 , , short time nearPoolamacea, aud rough : , {1 steals of them gave satisfaction, The , color is not so deep as those folUjd in the Mount Macdonnell mines, 'Jpt Temperance Steadily Growing. ■.' Melbourne} March 12. * Under the new Act, theresidents of Port Melbourne demanded, a poll to determine 'the number of -Y-'j licenses to be granted by the local Licensing Bench. The poll was taken on Satvrday, wi<h the result that, by a - r majority of 80, the residents declaredn vp;« that the ntiraberof hotels should bfl ■; reduced by one halt. , T faJ|jp|jj '•'■f A-Horse Disease! Bbisbane, March 15. """S' - A.disease, among horses which re- • cently appeared in different parts of the colony is pronounced to be merely * ' due to the heat and dajnp, and as not contagions. , * ■ ' f AJ