LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1653, 15 January 1886, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

BY ELECTRIC TKi.EUIiAI'll— COI'YUIOIIT. Received January 13, 12 80 p.m. London, 12. Consols and New Zealand securities are unchanged in valua Melbourne, 18. Another great fin* l>n>kn out this afternoon at Jones and Co\» bonded storf, Sandiidjje, and at the pivsent time ifc is still unextinguished. Particulars awaited will he telegraphed later on. | The Seamen* Union have resolved I to aive the shipping owners 21 hours notioe of the iuteutiou of the Union to strike work. Londo , 12. Tenders were opened to day for a ; loau of £25,000 placed upon tlie

market by the City of Auckland. The total amount tendered for was £137, 000. Tenders at £111 Is receiving 6 per cent of amount applied for, and above that in full. Received January 14th 1 p.m. Sydney, 14. The New South Wales S« amens Union has espoused the cause of the Melbourne wharf laborers and the steamer Cheviot in consequence was unable to ship a crew. His Eminence Cardinal Koran will leave very shortly for New Zealand. Received January 14th, noon. London 13. It is announced that the Otago Harbor Board invite tenders fora loan of £150,000, at 5 per cent The minimum has b»en fixed at JEIOI, and tenders will be opened on the 20th January. Received January 14, 1 30 a.m. i Mklbournk, 13. The fire at Jones and Company's bonded store cjjjlginated near the debris of a recent cojpiigratiou. The flre is now extingui^y mv the damages are not yet asci|^p>d. The seamans strike will probably affect 50 steamers. The Seamans Union received an answer from the New Zealand Seamens Union declining to co-operate, pending the receipt of further information t'ruui the. Victorian Union. Adelaide, 13. The search party which have been ! endeavoring to find traces of the mis- : sing men at Clifton Hills, report having discovered two more bodies, making a total of five. Four men are still to be accounted for. Ravooov, 13. Intelligence from Mandalay announces that the British have successfully cairied the Daeoit position at Saguing, J killing sixty of the enemy and wounding a considerable unmber. Lohdon, 13. It is believed that Earl Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, contemplates resigning that office. Receive J January 14, 1.45 p.m. Melbourne 14. ■ The lion. James Service addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents at Castlemaine last night. In the course of his speech he claimed that the Coalition Ministry was most bene* tieial to the country, and urged its . continuance under Gillies and Denk'in. He claimed credit for his Ministry for having abolished political patronage in the Civi! Service, and also for doing away with the political management of railways, and substituting a permanent Boajr^^^gpp^iu|oiUiie4 his constituents tnat the. ciiise of his retirement fVous po:iiicu! life was illhealth. Tile ni<»n on board the Waihora joined tie Seaman's Union en ma«se om arrival of the vessel here. The stewards, and cooks resolved to join the strike. The meJical authorities at the Melbourne Hospital state that on Tuesday morning, the day of the Collingwood bank outrage a youth came to the hospital, and was treated for a Imllet wound. It is he« lieved by the police that the individual in question is idcntii'Ml with one of the would be robt.ers, who has up to the present eluded pursuit. Received January 14, 3.20 p.m. London, 13. Upon the assembling of Parliament ! to-dsiv Bradlaugh, member for North- ' ampton. advanced to the table, and wus sworn iv in the usual manner. The Hon. the Speaker, read a letter he had received from Sir Michael Hicks Bt-ach, loader of the Government, in the Lower House, urging him not to allow Bradlangh to be ! sworn, but th^ Speaker ruled that he was I'Oun.l to ignore the letter, as any resolution of a former Parliament had no authority to bind the present one. Sir Mich ul Hoicks Beach attempted to make some remarks, but was at once stopped by the. Speaker, who ruled that as he had not l»ee.n sworn in he was not entitled to speak. Received Jauuary 14, 7.50 p.m. Melbourne, 14. On receipt of the notice from the Seamen's Union tfitiraaling their in* tention to go out on strike after 24 hours, the ship owners withdrew the letter they had written Mr Murphy, secretary of the Trades Council, agreeing to the appointment of a Board of Conciliation under certain conditions. 82 men were brought to Victoria from New Zealand by the Waihora, und are now working for the Union Company, while a similar number are employed by the Australian Steam Navigation Company. The attitude of the remaining men is uncertain.