LATE CABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2222, 5 October 1886, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[rev tick's tklkgrams.] Maoeiua, October 1. The Aorangi arrived this morning. Her fio/en me.it i* ia excellent condition. Capetown, October 2. The s.s. Doric departs to-morrow afternoon for New Zealand. London, October 1. There were forty applications for the vacant Pi ofessorship of Literature at the ftydnoy XTnhersity. Sir Graham Berry will read the opening paper at the next meeting of the Colonial Institute, the subject being the " Relation of the Colonies to the Empire." Me-srs Bnrgoyne, the well-known wine growers, Uneaten an action for libel against the Adelaide Exhibition Commission for plating up a cartoon which appeared in the Melbourne Punch at the office of the Commission. . The whole of the Victorian beer exhibits are now exhausted. Nearly all the colonial wines, some 21,000 gallons in all, received at the Exhibition have been sold. The committee appointed by the prince of Wales report that the. complaints about the treatment of Australian wine at the Exhibition are due to imperfect knowledge of the facts of the case on the part of aggrieved persons. Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, in reply to an interrogation by Sir Graham Berry, has stated that the colonists are not required to make any definite contribution to the proposed Imperial Institute, but may subcribe whatever »vms they please. The Australian mails from Melbourne, August 24, were delivered to-day via Brindisi. The P. and O. eteamship Rome, from Melbourne, August 10, at Plymouth to-day. October 2. The lonic, from Wellington, August 22, arrived at Plymouth this morning. Her frozen mutton is in good condition. The trip of the Australian cricketera has not been a financial success. Beach and Hanlan are reconciled. The Duc-d'Aumale has, bequeathed Chantilly and grounds to the French Institute. It is reported that a company to purchase the Cumberland mine on the Etheridge goldfield, Queensland, will be floated shortly with a capital of £180,000. A company to purchase the Livingstone mine at Charters Towers is in the market for £75,000, and the Canadian mine, in the same district, is offered for £70,000. The Bank of South Australia has declared a dividend of G per cent., and a considerable amount has been carried forward to provide for doubtful debts. Mr J. Norton, the delegate of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, is organising a conference on the question of State aided emigration, and has invited delegates from kindred societies to be present. An exhibition has been arranged to be held at Messrs Ransom and Co's workß, Chelsea, for the purpose of testing the qualities of colonial timber and the uses to which it might be applied. Mr Stanhope will be present. A large number of engineers and til* * ij; merchants are expected to attend. The Rev. Field Flowers Goe, M.A., who has accepted the Bishopric of Melbourne, is a gentleman possessed of large private means, and is a very eloquent preacher. He is a very generous man, and has expended among the poor of his congregation the whole of his stipend. The curates of the district of St. George's Church, to which Mr Goe was rector, are of opinion that he is highly pleased with the appointment. October 3. In the ten mile pedestrian match, George has beaten Dummings. Mr Hartford has been appointed Secretary to tn e British Commission of the Jubilee Exhibition. Fourteen rebels in Madrid nave been gentenced to death. In a native quarrel in the Godavery dntrict, in Hindostan, a hundred natives were killed. Paris, October 1. The Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has, in accordance with the views of the Government, greatly reduced the credits for the transportation of recidiviste3 The number of these has been limited to 3000 yearly. The committee recommend that they be sent to Cayenne instead of to New Caledonia, as the latter aettlement is already crowded, and difficult to supervise,