CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2419, 5 May 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

-. By Electric TELEcmAPB.--CoF?RiGHT f PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, May 8. The Marquis of Ripon is willing to/ negotiate, with France respecting the Newfoundland disputes on the lines indicated in the report of the French Shore Committee. He asks the colony to extend a, modus vivendi for two years. As a proof of the extraordinary mildness of the spring, it is mentioned that strawberries grown in the open air at Salt- Ash, in Cornwall, are selling in London. This is the earliest on record. In a letter to the press the fattier of Townsend* who was charged with intent to shoot Mr Gladstone, states that the alleged interview with him was a cruel fabrication and only served to blacken' the case against his son. In the coarse of an address, Bishop Jalins, of Chrißtohurob t expressed the opinion that the prevalence of religious unbelief in the colonies was due to agnostic education. BERLIN, May 3. The Emperor and Empress have returned from their visit to Borne. PABIS, May 3. It is now stated that M. Billot will succeed M. Waddington as Frenob ambaßsador m London. The Frenob press condemn Mr. Gladstone' . epeeoh on the evaouation of Egypt. News from Dahomey reports that King Behanzin has offered to submit to the* French, and negotiations are now going on as to the place of exile to which be is to be deported. CAPETOWN, May 3. The Cape Ministry has resigned owing to internal disputes. Mr. Bhodes has been re-sam atoned to form a Cabinet. ST. PETERSBURG, May 3. Twenty-three thousand people are starving at Shadrinsk, in Asiatic Russia,. They are living chiefly on roots' and grasses. Labourers' wages in the district are only five farthings a day.