LATE CABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2331, 18 June 1887, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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London, June 15. Mr Vincent Barrington has undertaken to do the continental work in connection with the Melbourne Exhibition. Mr E. N. Streeter, .the . well-known precious stone merchant and jeweller, will send out a valuable exhibition of jewellery. Accommodation will be provided in Westminster Abbey for 9,000 people. There will be seats for IGO colonists. The Agents-General and their wives have received invitations to attend the Jubilee services at Westminster Abbey. The Times highly praises Hay's picture of Queen Margaret and Malcolm Canmore. Mr Lorimer has been sucsessful in negotiating the establishment of a cartridge factory in Victoria. For the Melbourne Gas Company loan, £127,000 has been subscribed. The average is about £110 ss. The amount asked was £50,000. Consols are J- higher, viz, 101g. New Zealand inscribed stock remains at 98.t. Adelaide wheat is Is lower, viz,, 30s; Adelaide flour is fid lower, 25s 6d. Australian beef tallow is 51.}. At the coloui.il wool sales to-day 15,500 bales were, offered; The market is firmer. Wool has now advanced level with the closing _ rates of the April sales, with the exception of coarse crossbred, which are a halfpenny below those rates. The resistance to the imposition of tithes in Wales has collapsed. June 10. The Chicago Wheat Corner has collapsed in consequence of the enormous amount of grain about, 10,000,000 bushels pouring iii for sale by auction. Pine wheat has fallen 17 cents. Mr Chamberlain, in a speech at a banquet in London, said Mr Gladstone's overtures would not satisfy the Unionists. He urged the creation of a National party, excluding all extremists, for the solution of great social problems. M. Eeron's military activity equals that of General Boulanger. A farm servant at Castleisland was brutally murdered by moonlighters, seventeen of whom have been arrested. In the match at Lords between the Marylebone Club and All England, the former made 175 in their first and the latter 190 without the loss of a wicket. It is reported that the police are keenly on the alert watching possible dynamiters, who might meditate outrages on the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations. Berlin, June 15. The Emperor William has caught a fresh cold, and is in a weak condition.