CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

* LORD R. CHURCHILL'S LICENSING BILL. KING GEORGE'S SOUND. CONSPIRACY IN PARIS. [BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPTRIBHT.J lUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London, 29th April. Colonel Griffin has been appointed Presi-dent-elect of tho Baptist Union. 30th April. In the House of Commons the Licensing Bill introduced by Lord Randolph Churchill has been read a first time. Obituary — Lord Hammond, aged 88. Major Clarke, Secretary of the Colonial Defence Committee of the War Office, considers that it would cost .£50,000 to fortify King George's Sound, and it wonld be required to be garrisoned by 1000 men in time of war. He thinks it would be better to leave the Sound defenceless than for England to bear the whole of the cost. Bafore the Enabling Committee to-day, Sir William Robinson advocated that Western Australia Ehould have control of all lands until the new colony is established. The Emperor William of Germuny will pay a visit to Queen Victoria m the s ntnmn. The Enghsb Chnrch Union his naanimonsly condemned the Victoria Divorce Bill, and passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the clergy. The Paris correspondent of. the Daily News telegraphß that a Royalist conspiracy in Paris, to take action on the Ist May, has been discovered. Paris. 29th April. Lord Lytton. the British Ambassador at Paris, has notified the French Government that England desires the. regulation of Ootober, 1889, relative to the salvage of wrocked veaaels, mode applicable to Queensland.