CABLEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5154, 25 February 1888, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

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(Received February 24,1.15 a.m.)

MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.

London, February 23. At the annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce the Right Hon Anthony Mundella urged that tho manufacturing districts ebould be largely represented at the Melbourne Exhibition in order to counteract the foreign display.

REV. MR JONES

February 24,

In the House, of Commons to-day Sir James Forirusson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, mado a statement m connection with the recent expulsion of the Rev. Mr Jones from tho New Hebrides. Sir James said that the French Government declare that the reason Mr Jones was expelled was on account of his actively prorogating a proposal to havo the group annexed to Australia despite tho warning given to him by the Frotich authorities. (Received February 25, 11.20 a.m.) FISHERIES QUESTION.

Washington, February 24. The mixed commission appointed under the Fisheries Treaty recently concluded is to undertake the delimitation of the three-milo limit in Canadian and Newfoundland waters, which America renounced by tho Convention of ISIS. The interpretation of certain noints in the " remuneration clause affectFnThaternational rights which has been m dispute over since the Convention of 1818 £as concluded will be referred to arbitration. «|g|t.