Late Cable News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 441, 2 October 1897, Page 4

Late Cable News.

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.) London, Sept. 80. A severe thunderstorm passed over London, several persons being killed. The Ottawa correspondent of The Times states that in July next the Canadian tariff will be made essentially pro-British. The typhoid outbreak at Maidstone, Kent, isassumingalarmingproportion?, as 1100 cases have been reported, and the death rate is increasing. At the wool sales competition for all descriptions is very spirited, and prices are hardening. Oct. 1. Mr Eitchie, President of the Board of Trade, has submitted a basis for settlement of the long-standing strike in the engineering trade. He suggests that a conference be held between the Federation of Employers and representatives of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers to discuss the points in dispute. The engineers are agreeable to the suggested conference. At a meeting of representatives of Victorian and New Zealand meat distribution agencies Mr Nathaniel Levi, M.L.C. (Victoria) presiding, it was decided to support Mr D. Tallerman's scheme for supplying frozen meat to the London hospitals for a month, with a view to testing its suitability as diet for patients. Mr Tallerman is a well-known meat distribution expert, and this is the outcome of an organisation formed by him for bringing Australian and New Zealand meats more prominently before the public. Madrid, Oct. 1. Dissensions amongst the Conservative sections of the Cortes caused Premier Azearraga to resign. Calcutta, Oct. 1. Reports have been received that the bubonic plague has reappeared in the Karachi district. Sydney, Oct. 1. The Mayor officially welcomed the intercolonial athletic teams. Work has been temporarily stopped in tjjo W r ickham colliery owing to fnHher extensive falls in abandoned workings. One hundred and sixty men were working in another portion of the pit when an enormous rush of air and dust extinguished all the lights. The men in a panic rushed to the shafts, but fortunately all escaped without injury. The quarterly revenue return shows a decrease of £160,000 compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. Melbourne, Oct. 1. The revenue increased £40,000 upon last year's corresponding quarter. Cooktown, Oct. 1. A rising of natives has taken place near Mount Victoria, New Guinea. They are besieging two mining and police parties, who are without water. The Governor has left with relief forces.

THE TREATY OF PEACE. THE RALLI PARTY DEFEATED. Athens, Oct. 1. A specially summoned meeting of the Chamber of Deputies was held yesterday to consider the treaty of peace with Turkey. M. Ralli, the Premier, said it was not necessary to ask for the Chamber's formal approval of the treaty because it became operative when it was communicated by the Powers to Greece, but such a step was contrary to the right of the State and the Crown. He protested against the terms of the treaty, and attributed to Germany all that had been done against Greece. M. Ralli asked the Chamber to pass a vote of confidence in the Government. M. Delyamiis, ex-Premier, declared now that the acute stage of negotiations had passed such a vote was not necessary. The of confidence was negatived by 93 to 30. members abstained from voting, and in consequence of the vote M. Ralli has resigned.