YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7470, 14 March 1888, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Home and Foreign.

The shipbuilding trade in England is dull, and several failures are probable.

In the House of Commons, in reply to a question from Mr W. J. Johnston, M.P. for Belfast, Sir James Fergussou promised to produce the papers relating to the cession of Raiatea to France.

Severe gales have been experienced in the English Channel, and several of the Boulogne steamers narrowly escaped being wrecked near Folkestone. Telegraphic communication with the Continent is interrupted. Three of the Brixton lifeboat crew were drowned in going off to the wreck of a vessel named the Syria. The principal buildings in London were illuminated in honor of the Prince of Wales’s silver wedding. French exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition will occupy 70,000 ft. A large number of pictures will be sent. Major Borrows has been lined L4OO for assaulting Lord de Walden. The affair arose out of a society scandal. Colonial stocks are Inflated. New South Wales 3 pel' cents, are at L 106; fours, LI 14, Victorian fours, LI 13.

Mr Henniker Heaton, in his paper read at the Colonial Institute, declared that the postal loss on a penny sea route would be within LI 5,000, without allowing for the increase of letters. If such a proposal were adopted he advocates a reduction of the Continental charges to Id. He said the Colonial Conference had not uttered a word of sound criticism of his proposals. He denounced the oppressive cable monopoly, and advocated the purchase of the Eastern Extension Company’s lines and the construction of a Pacific cable, thus enabling the establishment of a shilling tariff

H.M.S. Stork sails on the 14th inst. to join the Australian station. Postmaster-General Raikes, in reply to an inquiry, stated that a uniform postage stamp for Great Britain and the colonies was not practicable. Sir G. Berry, Sir F. D. Bell, and Sir J. F. Garrick attend the Tariff Conference.

The stars presented by the Khedive to the Soudan contingent have been forwarded to Sydney.

Australian.

Burke and Foley have been bound over to keep the peace in a bond of LI 00 each. During the hearing of the case it was elicited that the projected match was abandoned three weeks ago. Both men protested against the bond, but without avail.

‘ Companies are being formed to work the Poolamacca ruby mines in the Broken Hill district. Information has been received in Sydney from more than one of the Loyalty Islands by the Rev. Mr Jones stating that the French have erected two prisons and are incarcerating all Natives who refuse to join the French Church, and are rewarding all those converted to the tenets of that body. Application has been formally made to the South Australian Government for the reward of LIO,OOO, offered for the discovery of a payable coalfield. The discoverer claims to have found a rich seam of anthracite near Mount Pleasant, thirty-five miles north-east of Adelaide. It has been determined that a branch of the Imperial Federation League shall be formed at Hobart.

The Legislative Council of Western Australia are considering the despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of granting responsible government to Western Australia. It is understood that the House will reject the proposals submitted by the English Government, and demand a new Constitution, without limit or restriction.

The Rev, Mr Jones, recently expelled by the French authorities at the New Hebrides, has received letters at Adelaide stating that there have been further expulsions at those islands. He leaves for England to-day.