CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH and FOREIGN

Inangahua Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1202, 17 April 1897, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH and FOREIGN

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. London, April 18. The conference between the federated employers in ihe northern shipbuilding yard-*, and the representatives of the unionist engineers failed to settle the point in reference to the employment of unskilled workmen whose withdrawal the engineer's union has demanded. The Agents-General oi the variou colonies will submit evidence to a select committee appointed in connection with the imputed charges agains agricultural products in Mark's bill with a view ot refuting Digby's assert tions regarding Australian meat. Pretoria, April 15. The Transvaal High Court ot Justice has decided that Eruger acted illegally in euppressing'the Johannesburg Star, a publication which was recently stopped on the ground that it was dangerous to law and order. The Court awarded the owners costs. The Star has resumed publication. Washington, April 15. Goster, one of the American mem--bers on the Behring Sea Commission, states that in endeavouring to re open the fisheries question, Mr McKinley j has no intention to evade the award oi ' ths Itii<-ruatiottal arbitrators, wbe wei

at Paris in 1898. The award was that the commission generally favored Great Britain. April 16. It is expeoted io offioial oiro es that j the United States will annex Hawaii in order to prevent Japan annexing Vines and Gurbriggen. Swiss guides ascended Tupungdts, one of the peaks in the Andes, and reacbed ah attitude of 2!, 000ft. Ottawa, April 15. In the course of a speech, Mr CarU wr gbfc, Minister of Trade and Customs, said there would probab'y be war in Europe, aud it was desirable that Canada should have between 20,000 and 80,000 troops ready for service. Volunteers possibly woull soon have a chance of proving their attacbmem to the Empire. Constantinople, April 16. The Porte has proposed to double tbe Turkish Garrison in the Island of Samo?, aud place the principality under ihe sovereignty of Turkey, but the local Assembly haa decided to resist the proposal, the Porte, therefore, abandoned it.