CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4289, 1 December 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, November 28. The Duke of .Sutherland intends to CMitest his late father's will, rtftrhe Imperial Purliameut meets on Tlst January, Death is announced of Mr Alexander Brogden, ironmoslor. The Calcutta correspondent of The Times wires that the action of the Chitral usnrpsr in seizing forts in the name of the Ameer of Afghanistan is loolted upon as a most serious f-tep, and is taken to indicate that the Ameer is hostilo to British interests, In an article in the Nineteenth Century, Mr John Burns, M.P., demands that bold and prompt measures bo taken to provide work for the unemployed, and urges thai employment should be found for a great number of them by municipal bodies, He expresses himself as strongly in favour of a reduction in the hours of labour, and predicts that''politicians will find the world moves on its belly when empty bellies have votes." Mr Shaw-Lcfevre has undertaken to oxpedito certain public work in order to relieve tho unemployed. Among the works to bo put in hand tfonce is tbe demolition of Milbank rrison, which is to be replaced by tbe National Art Gallery. M'llwraitb and M'Bachern, a Queensland firm have sent a circular to shippers using Suez Canal to ascertain whether they ore in favour of establishing a depot at Port Said for Australian frozen moat, Tho Admiralty have replied suggesting that when the contracts fall in in March, purveyors of Australian meat should tender, Private shipping firms are in favour of obtaining supplies from Buoh a depot as that proposed, In an article in the Antipodean, Sir Samuel Griffiths predicts that the system of small farms in Queensland, owned and worked by Europeans, will to a large extent supersede the eeBtates worked by Kanaka labour.- He Bays it is impossible to avoid tho temporary employment of Kanakas, but he thinks their permanent employment would interfere with the uniformity of Australian government. Dr Barnafdo has been filled £25 for cotfempt of Court in publishing an officio commenting on a case which is pending, Tho case has reference to alleged neglect on the part of the doctor to disclose tho custody of a boy who was sent to a Canadian farm, At the wool sales there is brisk competition for all descriptions, For Eivprina wool tbe bidding was excited. There was good competition by Continental buyers, but tl;o Home trade was quiet. The prices realised to-day show an increase of 21 per cent, as compared with those ruling on the opening night, The wheat market is rather slow, but the week dosed steadier, Novombor29. At the wool sales the bidding was spirited, New South Wales combining averaged lOJd; South Australian greasy, 7d, A small portion of Melbourne crossbred mutton, ox Massilia, sold at 3id per lb; ewes, 8d; merino wethers2|d. Lambs are of poor quality and unsaleable, g. Brussels, November 28, #ne Eothschilds desire to prevent a reduction in the price of silver, which they think under the present circumstances may fall to 2a sd, or perhaps Is 7d, and they have hopes of forming a European league. At the Monetary Conference, Baron de Botbschild proposed that the European Powers should combino to purchase yearly for five years £5,000,000 worth of silver at a price not exceeding 8s 7d per ounce, and in the event of tho price rising higher tho purchase should instantly cease, Tho scheme has been referred to Committee, The Portuguese delegates have been

instructed to act with the English representatives. > The Conference has adjourned until Friday. Paris, November 29, M. Primet, a magistrate, in giving evidonco before the Panama Canal Enquiry Committee, stated that the investigations showed that Baron Reinach, ono of the directors, who dierfuddenly, had receivod ten milliotnrancs, Enquiries also wealed the fact that a list «sist3d containing the names of six hundred persons who had received bribes. AuioDg the names were tlioao of soveral members of the Chamber of Deputies, A journalist hud also received money in connection with tbo affair, In tho Chamber of Deputies a motion was brought forward ordering the oxhumation of Baron Eeinacb's

body, as tboro is a suspicion that the

coffin is empty. Although the GoJtEnimont opposed the motion it was c'arriod by 804 to 219. Melboubne, November 80, In the Legislative Assembly it was stated that there arc 16,000 unemployed registered on the books of tbo Labour Bureau, and • that 12,000 houses are empty in Melbourne; also that unless something was done to provide bread, riots might be appre» bended. Bir Graham Berry replied that the Government were fully alive to the position, and liberal provision ffouW be made in the Estimates for canf&g on public works, with the * view of giving relief.

Paris, November 28, Mi Loubet, the Premier, has resigned, aud President Carnot has accepted bis resignation. The police are guarding the British Embassy, fearing that the Anarchists will carry out tbo throats to destroy it by means of dynamite, in revenge for tbo extradition of Francois from England, Sydney, November 29. An important discovery of silver has been made in. the Australian Consols mines at Broken Hill, but it is not known at present whether il will excel in richness the find made last year, .

The Eeniuen of tho ship Port Glasgow, who were sentenced to a months imprisonment for diaohoying the ordors of the captain, have been released from gaol under a section of the Act which penuita a captain of a vess-1 to demand that his men shall he sent back to their ship. New York, Nnvcmber 28.

; A yacht belonging to an American millionaire mmed Tucker, capsized " m New York harbour, the owner and , eigbt.othcrs being drowned, ■Washington, November 20. President Harrison will make a 1 tour of Europe next year for tho purpose of studying tho Labour Question.