Cablegrams.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1032, 4 May 1894, Page 6

Cablegrams.

* The heavy horses on which the murderers of Mr M'Kay escaped from Barraba have been found 25 miles from the township with their throats cut. A madman was also found near the same spot. Some sensation has been caused in France by President Carnot forbidding officials in the diplomatic service to marry without obtaining the assent of the authorities. The Premier states that this step has been rendered necessary on account of a German Jewess, who was married to a diplomatist, disclosing French secrets. Replying to a deputation of mineowners respecting the Labor Disputes Bill, Lord Rosebery said the Government were not united on the measure which provided for arbitration and conciliation boards, therefore were unable to make it a Government question. The death rolls of the earthquake in Greece have increased to 320. The loss of life was especially large in the monasteries. It is reported that whole families were engulfed while attending church. A pier in the Byzantine church at Daphne was shattered, and its fall wrecked the whole building. One hundred thousand colliers are now on strike at Washington. The labor malcontents demand that the sura of 500,000,000d0l shall be expended on relief works. The daily loss by the coal strike is already estimated at L 25,000. The Coxeyite arrivals in Washington are treated as vagrants, and the Government notify that it is intended to strictly enforce the laws against vagrants, as large mobs are expected. Sir George Gr<?y has been appointed a member of the Privy Council. Earl Rosebery's address to the Liberal party says that, owing to the extension of the franchise, and the manifestation of a new spirit towards' the Imperial Government, the unity of the Empire must be maintained and the flag must be honored abroad. He regards it as impossible to reunite with the leaders of the Unionist party. A parcels post between Canada and Australia, and including Hawaii and Fiji, will begin on Jn]y 1. The Miners' Eight Hours Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority of 87. The Coxeyites have seized a train at Bulte in California, and the Federal Government hare ordered its recapture. At Bismarck in Missouri two regiments are in readiness to oppose the gang. A beggar stabbed one of the Rothschilds in the face on Saturday. The offender was arrested. It is announced that Russia and China have arranged a modus vivendi with regard to the Pamirs. Eight negroes connected with murders in Louisiana have been lynched. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary Asquith moved to introduce a bill for the Disestablishment of the Church of Wales arid Monmouthshire, to come into operation in January 1896. The measure, which is of a highly complicated character, follows broadly on the lines of the Disestablishment of the Irish Church. The Home Secretary (Mr Asquith) has refused Anarchist groups the usual facilities for assembling in Hyde Park on the occasion of che May celebrations. . Henri has been sentenced to death. He laughed when his sentence was delivered, and on leaving the dock shouted { Courage comrades ! Long live Anarchy !' Cholera' is extending in Portugal. Railway and steamer traffic throughOut the United States is paralysed,

owing to scarcity of coal consequent on j the miners' strike. Owing to the insanitary condition of the city of Chicago, an epidemic of smallpox has broken out. Two hundred cases have been reported. All i the schools have been closed. The English wheat market (April 28) is dull, the Continental inactive, and the American declining. A shipment of cheese by .the s.s. Duke of Westminster has been discharged, and found to be undamaged. The Queen has returned to Windsor. A section of the evicted tenants denounce the bill for their relief as a delusion and a snare. The. King of Servia has restored his mother and father to their full rights. As reports come in from the districts affected by the earthquake in Greece its ravages are shown to be much more extensive than was supposed. Hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered homeless, and the whole coast line from opposite Larissa to Thermopoylze is laid desolate. The sea encroached upon the land, and elsewhere torrents of boiling water upheaved from fissures in the earth and added to the horrors of the scene. The unfortunate inhabitants in the districts affected by the earthquakes are spending their nights in the open air praying for mercy. The shocks still continue. Extensive fissures have been riven in the ground, and the mountain gorges are greatly affected. Neither Great Britain nor Germany have made a formal proposal to the United States Government with a view to the annexation of Samoa. Mr Gresham will shortly submit to Congress despatched showing the vexations experienced under the treaty, and that a minority of colonial enthusiasts were the chief opponents to a British protectorate. It is rumored that the German Emperor is assisting the Colonial party in their opposition to New Zealand's proposal for the annexation of Samoa. Colonial butter is quoted at 95s per cwt. Sir E Grey, in the House of Commons, stated that the Government had no reason to suppose any of the Powers would at present consent to New Zealand governing Samoa. Sir R. Hamilton considers that the time is not yet ripe for a British protectorate. The Vossische Zeitung says New South Wales's {protest arises from long-stand, ing commercial envy. It thinks it evident that the British Government are not prepared to move in the matter; hence the evils complained of in Samoa will remain unredressed, and New Zealand had better be allowed to govern it. The Zeitung advocates the exchange of German interests in Samoa for Walfisch JBay, a district adjoining their possessions in South-west Africa, Thirty Thousand Vienna masons have struck for shorter hours.