GABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1666, 4 July 1887, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

.«. . By Tklkgraph. — JReuter's Copyright. LONDON, July 1. A number ot Indian princes now on a visit to England presented the Queen, at Windsor Castle yesterday, a loyal address on the occasion of her ..Majesty's Jubilee. July 2. W. Foreman of the General Post-office, Sir G. Berry, and Sir Saul Samuel leave for Paris and Rome for the purpose of urging a reduciou on continental transit rates ou Australian mails. The Agents-General had a conference to-day with the Postmaster-General, at which the scope of their mipsion was fully ih-cucsed a»J decidtcl upon, MELBOURNE, Jnly 3. The death is announced of Captain Mandeville. SYDNEY, July 3. The steamship Port Victor which brought the man Alexander, who is suffering from smallpox, has been intercepted and quarantined. Niue persons who had been working at the same establishment as Alf-xnnder, and a man who escaped from the Sailors Home, have been placed iv quarantine. No fresh case of smallpox has been leported. The assistant manager in the electric telegraph department is missing. He is sup[-o.>el to h.ive committed suicide. (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, June 30. The Hastings (New Zealand) Borough loan of £25,000 has been withdrawn from the market, only £100 having been subscribed. Sir William Fitzherbert will return to New Zealand via Vancouver. It is expected that priuces and others in India will subscribe about £40,000 to the fund of the Imperial Institute. The trial of the captain, mate, and two seamen of the ship Lady Douglas, on a charge of killing a Malay seaman named Hassan during the voyage from Shark Bay, Western Aus ralia to London, has resulted in the four prisoners beiog sentenced to death. The jury, in bringing in their verJict, recommended prisoners to mercy. The cordial receptiou of the Priuces in Ireland is increasing. There is on indication that the Sultan

of Turkey will ratify the Egyptian agreement, and resent the threats of Russia and France. It is reported that the Sobranje will elect Prince Ferdinand to the Bulgarian throne. The Imperial Government have agreed to vtudertake the survey of the route proposed for the Pacific cable, but the work can only be carried on as vessels are available. The Committee of the House of Commons, which was appointed to inquire into the feasibility of State-aided colonisation, have sent in a report, in which they propose that the Government should assist private colonisation schemes by guaranteeing the interest on loans raised for that purpose. SYDNEY, June 22. The examination of witnesses is proceeding in connection with the railway collision. All the 6iifferers are progressing well. Of the Sydney unemployed, 300 are new arrivals from England, 313 from Victoria, 224 from New Zealand, 82 from South Australia, aud 169 from Queensland. The Attorney-General intends to move, in committee on the Payment of Members Bill, that the remuneration of each member be reduced to £100. Anglo-Turkish Convention. |Reuter.| LONDON, June 30. In the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. W. H. Smith, replyiug to a question, stated that Her Majesty's Government believe that the Sultan will ratify the Anglo-Turkish convention regarding Egypt.