Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2060, 9 June 1896, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

[By Ti'licouapu.]

[irilOM OCR OWN -CORIUCSrONDICNT.I

Adklaidr, June. 8

The Cricket Association has cabled to i Jones, asking: him to consult the Association before, accepting the em-agement offered by Sussex County, Em.lln.lL It is understood (hat tho intention is to retain Jones as ground bowler at the Adelaide Oval. London, June 7. Mr Balfour censured the indiscretion of the Italian Government in printing the negotiations between Italy nnd England over Abyssinia in a recent green book, but said that they had promised to observe greater caution in the future. The Observer states that N'ewlinsker, the Sultan's envoy, is negotiating with the Armenian Committee in London on the basis of of ,1 concession of reforms, if the Armenians treat dir.et with the Sultan,

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying to the Colonial Institute, says that I li.* British tax is levied on incomes regardLss of the nature. locality and property. He considered it equitable to doubly tp.s 11 person possessing property in one country and spending his income in another. It would be impossible tn confine, th- i-ystem of reciprocit-a! exemption to colonists re.-Aent it>. l'riiain,'hut it mu<t extend fo ai, drauh.g an incntne tVoin the colonies M. Jules Simon, a. member of th" French Acad, my, is dying. The following team v.ji- play (or England n_ain«t tha Australians at the Wimlrey Park 10-morrow : —Spofforth (Derbyshire), MeCabey, Perrio, I'iokoit. l-fu-s.-il and Mead 'Essex). Dh TralTord (Leicester), Nepe-.n, Phillips, Heyman, and Rawiin (Middlesex). SuaKiji, June 7. Tlnee thousand Foven hundred Sepoys havo arrived here. Madiuo, June 7. Two abandoned bombs have been found in llarcelona. L i-- believed that it was intended lo throw them into the Cathedral. June 7. ,M'j; r Lothair received an ovsitimi on his an ival here. Re MR, June 7, The rV'Miti'T promised that, at, an .-.ppoitnne mom nt.. Ir.yi-sl ition should be introduced to 1 revent the f.umation of secret Rtu-iet'es, including the Masonic brotherhood. CAIMiTOWV, June 7, It, is rumoured that the sentences on lite, lenders si' tho Reform party will be c.m.-nuiel to Goes of £ 10,000 each.