YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7651, 29 June 1888, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Home and Foreign.

Two cargoes of Australian wheat have been sold at 32s 9d.

At the wool sales 14,000 balei were catalogued. Prices were generally unchanged, though cross-breds show a firmer tendency.

In the House of Commons, despite the strong advocacy given to the scheme by Mr Gladstone, the Channel Tunnel Bill was rejected by a majority of 142. '

The Education Commission have made their report, and recommend that encouragement should be given to the voluntary school system, and that religious and moral education should be developed. Emperor William, in the course of a speech at the opening of the Diet, has promised religious toleration to all, and that peace should be preserved with the Catholic Church. He also expressed a hope that taxation would be lightened to the poorer classes. The Czar has written a warm letter to the Emperor expressive of thorough personal friendship. It is stated that the Emperor will proceed in the Royal yacht to St. Petersburg about the middle of July, where he will be entertained by the Czar, and great fetes will be held in honor of his visit. It is also expected he will shortly visit Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and the King of Italy. The crops in Northern India are seriously affected by the long droughts. By the recent floods in the countrydistricts of Mexico several towns suffered severely. During the night numbers of houses fell, burying the occupants in the ruins. Over 1,000 bodies have since been recovered. Australian. The Chinese residents of Victoria are protesting against the decisions of the Chinese Conference recently held in Sydney. The Master of the Melbourne Mint deprecates the proposal that the colony should produce its own silver coinage, on the ground that the cost would defeat the object of the proposal. Captain Schutt, of the Geelong steamer Excelsior, was charged with the manslaughter of Charles Prosser. The charge arose out of an accident on Easter Monday, when the steamer Exoelsior, on the voyage from Geelong to Melbourne, ran into a fishing boat, anchored off the mouth of the Yarra, the occupants of which were thrown into the water, and the boy Prosser was. drowned. The jury found a verdict off "Not guilty."