CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ BY KLEOTBIO TELKQBAPB — COFTBIQHT. A NEW PAPAL SECEETAEY. [kedtee's telegbams. i Rome, 216t January. Monsieur Vanutella will shortly bo appointed Papal Secretary, succeeding Cardinal Jacobinini, who has signified his intention of resigning that appointment owing to ill-health. THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE. THE ADELAIDE JUBILEE EXHIBITION. PROPOSED FISHERIES TREATY. THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. COMPETITION FOR THE QUEEN'S PRIZE. [special to united peess association.] London, 22nd January. In order to facilitate a visit of colonial Premiers, Sir Henry Holland proposes that the Colonial Conierence should commence its sittings on 17th March. It is rumoured that the P. and 0 Steamship Company offer to undertakes to carry the colonial mails for .£IOO,OOO, or a tenyear contract for .£85,000. The Orient Steamship Company have agreed to aocept a reduced bonus for carrying mails. Eight hundred and ninety-eight exhibitors for the Adelaide Jubiloo Exhibition have been allotted 94,000 ft of space inside, and nine other exhibitors have been allotted 8000 ft outsido. It is suggested that the Marquis of Lome should negotiate a fishery treaty between Canada and America. There is a remarkable industrial revival in America. Tho National Rifle Association urge that teams throughout the Empire should compete for tho Queen's prize in the jubilee year.