LATE CABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2243, 23 November 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

|I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] London, November 18. Thk Doctorship of the University of Oxford will bo conferred on the Rev. Field Flowpi\s ('oo on Tuesday next. Mr ]Jo«,isto ii a passenger by the P. and (). ss. Paramatta. Messrs Sigi-tnond Hoffning, and Joseph Mu-isun, have Iven appointed directors of the Western Australian Lund Corporalion. One hundivd tons of Queensland sugar was sold, and a\eraged 13s (id per cwt Mr Tlumuis King, a Cointnissioner for South Australia at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, is dying. November '20. The Statist has published an article attacking Bucknall's Gold Kstatc, Yietoria, and the Port Darwin Mining Company. It is reported that Brennan is .inking for £100,000 as patent rights for his torpedo. Obitury : Ex-President Arthur. The Times to-d.vy published a paragraph stating that the Cunard and White Star Steamship Companies have declined the proposal made hy the Postmaster-General that they Hhoujd undertake the conveyance of mails between Queenstown and America twice weekly at the rate of 3s per lb for letters, and 3d per lb for newspapers. The reasons assigned for the refusal are that the post-office wishes to reserve the right to make a third despatch weekly by any steamer leaving other ports of the United Kingdom. This is understood to refer to the North German Lloyd's line from Southampton. The Cunard and White Star companies urge that thq conveyance of mails with passengftrs tinder coiftiaot compels \,\\ei\\ t,o incur logs duiiiiir the slack soa^on, and tljey are prepared to conduct an efficient service or none at all. It is fuither announced th.it unless satisfactory ai range, ments are concluded by the HQth inst. the Cunard and White Ktar boats will cease to call at IJueenstown ; consequently, neither will be available foi conveyance of mails to and from America. The mails from Melbourne, October !>, by Messageries Oceanien, weie delivered today. The directors of the P. and O. Company hava declared a dividend at the rate of 3^ per cent per annum.