CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8449, 23 March 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

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MR CHAMBERLAIN AND THE GOVERNMENT. London, March 21

(Eeceived March 22, at 12.30 p.m ) Mr Chamberlain, speaking on the Irish question, said it was time the Government gave proof of their readiness to propose a substitute for Mr Gladstone's rejected Irish Bill. He urged that a comprehensive and final scheme of land purchase should precede any local government proposals. THE SEE OP TASMANIA. (Received March 22. at 5.15 p.m.) The Rev. Henry H. Montgomery, M.A., Vicar of Stewards, Kennington, has been nominated for the Bishopric of Tasmania, rendered vacant in consequence of the acceptance by Dr. Sanford of the coadjutorship to the bishopric of Durham. IRISH AFFAIRS. It is reported that the Government will propose next year to apply £50,000,000 in extending Lord Ashboume's Act in Ireland. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY. Mr Dawes, of Gray, Dawes, and Co., merchants, London, will probably purchase Mr Pearce's interest in the New Zealand Shipping Company. DB DALE ON SECULAR EDUCATION. Dr Dale, the well-known Independent minister, in a magazine article dealing with the religious and moral aspect of Australian life, doubts if secular education has at all impaired the religious faith of the colonists of Victoria. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. For beef and mutton prices are unchanged; stocks, however, are decreasing. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the total reserve in notes and bullion at £15,4G0,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities at 42£ per cent., being an increase of £200,000 in the total reserve and an increase of \ per cent, in the proportion of reserve to liabilities, The total quantity of wool arrived to date is 263,600 bales, and sent forward "direct 53,000 bales. The idtal available for the series is 335,000 bales. COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK. March 22. (Received March 23, at 1.0 a.m.) Count Herbert Bismarck is visiting England on a holiday trip. THE HOUSE OF PEERS. In the House of Lords yesterday the second reading of Earl Carnarvon's bill providing for the disqualification of peers guilty of certain offences was negatived by a majority of 49, DISASTROUS GALES. Heavy gales have been raging on the West Coast of Scotland, and 12 fishermen are reported to have been drowned at Stornoway, in the Hebrides. A FATAL OVERSIGHT. Calcutta, March 21. (Received March 23, at 1 a.m.) An aeronaut named Spencec made an ascent from this city to-day. He forgot to take his parachute with him, and it is believed he has been carried to sea.

(Special to Press Association..) THE BATTENBERGS. :• London, March 21. . (Received March 22, at 10 a.m.l It is reported that the Public Prosecutor at Mentone is applying to have Prince Alexander's marriage with the opera singer, Fraulein Dossinger, quashed, on the ground of fraudulent declaration. The Queen has cancelled an order she had given for a portrait of the Prince. COLONIAL BISHOPRICS. Truth comments on the avidity with which English clergymen appointed to colonial bishoprics return to England when they get a chance, and urges Sydney and Tasmania to provide for themselves instead of applying to what it calls an English "jobbing" syndicate. QUEEjN NATALIE. The young King Alexander of Servia has requested his mother (the ex-Queen Natalie) not to return to Servia at present. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT. A steam tram car was overturned while going round a curve at Wigan, in Lancashire, and 20 persons killed or injured. CONSCRIPTION RIDICULED. The Duke of Cambridge ridicules Lord Wolseley's advocacy of conscription in England. ; COPPER SYNDICATES. The new syndicate in Paris offer £45 per ton for the old syndicate's stock of copper, amounting to 150,000 tons, on condition that the output of the mines is restricted. CANADA AND THE STATES. , A motion in the Canadian House of Commons, in favour of a reciprocal tariff with the United States, was rejected. RIOTS IN HUNGARY. During some rioting in Buda-Pesth to-day Premier Tisza and the members of the Hungarian Cabinet were assaulted in the streets. Scenes took place in the. Diet, and troops had to be employed to keep the town quiet.