CABLE NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 476, 2 June 1891, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

■ * (per press association.) Paris, May 29. The French Minister for War has sent a grateful message of thanks to Lord Chas. Beresford, commander of H.M.S. Undaunted, for the assistance rendered by him to the French warship Seignelay when she was stranded on the sandbank off Jaffa on the Lovant coast. The election for the vacant seat in tho House of Commons for North Bucks, rendered vacant by the expulsion of Captain Verne j, who was imprisoned for an offence against a female, resulted in the return of a Home Ruler. lii the House. of Gommons, today, Mr Smith, in reply to a question, said Government would consider the necessity of placing some restriction on the influx of destitute foreigners into Groat Britain. Valparaiso, May 29. Chilian ladies are selling their jewellery in order to rpise money with which to purchase arms for tho insurgents. The United States cruiser Charleston has arrived at the Peruvian port of Callao. Her officers report that thoy have failed to find any trace of the rebel stoamer Itata. It is believed that the Mexican authorilios were frightened by the presence of tho Chilian insurgent warship Esmeralda, in the port of Aoapulco, and thus permitted hor to coal. Tho insurgonts threaten to bombard Valparaiso, but it is expected that tho United States, Great Britain, and other powers will step in to provent it. Sydney, June 1. The Union Company took over the Tasmanian Steam Navagation Company's stoamers this morning. Melbourne, June 1. Two consumptive patients are reported to havo been cured at Warmambool by twenty.eight injections of tuborculine.