CABLEGRAMS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 15, Issue 1295, 9 June 1893, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

ITtSH.FOREIGN AND I INTERCOLONIAL.

. [From Press Association.] London, June 7. The white residents in the Southern ates of America are forming societies to co-operate with the negroes to abolish lynching, and the press are assisting the movement. It is reported that work on the Panama Canal will be resumed at the end of the year. Addressing Hungarian delegations, Oount Kalnoky said that the relations of Austria with Germany and Italy were as close as ever. The friendly relations with Rnssia were still further strengthened, and were likely to result in the cessation of the military tension in Europe. An infernal machine was discovered in the Exchequer Court at Dublin. It bore the words " Remember Judge Murphy." The clock work was not geared up, and this prevented an explosion. At a meeting of the special committee of the House of Lords appointed to inquire into the meat trade, Lord Onslow presiding, Professor Long, the expert, gave evidence that Falkland Island mutton was often sold as Australian. The Board of Trade of British Columbia recommend that Australian mutton and wool be replaced on the free list. Prince Alfred, eldest eon of the Duke of Edinburgh, is ill at Potsdam with scarlet fever. A cyclone destroyed the town of El Dorado in Arkansas. Thirty people are believed to have been killed. A series of fires has occurred in South London, destroying a number of workshops, two timber yards, and 40 workmen's dwellings. The damage is . estimated at L 150,000. The offices of the c Cardiff Mail ' and also portion of the adjoining hotel were burned, causing damage, to the amount of LIOO,OOO. The Duke of Edinburgh has been raised to the position of Admiral of the Fleet. A large number of frozen sheep by the Otarama were spotted. Frozen meat by the ship Timaru, from Melbourne (left January 20), arrived in good condition, but there are complaints that all the Melbourne mutton is of irregular quality, and that illegibly marked wethers are mixed with ewes. The meat is roughly dressed and ungraded, aDd packed in inferior cloths. The wheat market shows a decline of 6d per quarter. The Dublin Council has rejected a motion that congratulatory messages should be sent to the Queen and the Prince of Wales on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Tork to Princess May. A Belgian named Ruller has been arrested in Saxony, he having confessed to the robbery of a large quantity of valuable jewellery from the residence of the Countess of Flanders in Brussels in February last. He has betrayed the hiding place of the stolen property, and implicated White, a confederate, who has been arrested in London. The Chudov Monastery in Moscow was entered by burglars, who stole the vessels used in religious exercises and money to the value of two and a-half million roubles. The action of the Chicago banks in refusing to finance the wheat rings has caused a fall in prices. Lord Roberts states that 25,000 more men are urgently wanted in India. The ' New York Herald ' is responsible for the report that Admiral Tryon has informed Earl Spencer thai he is unable to guarantee the neutrality of the Mediterranean owiDg to the weakness of his squadron. A colliery at Eagle Pass, in Texas, caught fire, and 61 men were entombed. Twenty-six corpses have been recovered. Some of the survivors were terribly burned. Several of the Salvation Army's officers in Canada have resigned. They complain of the excessive power wielded by Herbert Booth, and of his importing Englishmen and appointing them to the best positions. Mr John Burns, M. P., contends that the strike at Hull is a eign of the coming agitation for the abolition of the capitalists as a class. The lahoi' problem, in his opinion, will be insoluble so long as capitalists exist. The Westminster Gazette considers that there is no sounder bank in Australia than the Bank of New South Wales. The Spanish authorities ate alarmed at the increase of cholera, and are adopting precautionary measures. Mi Goblet, ia unveiling a monument in Paris, stated that the forbearance of France with regard to Alsace cannot laßt much longer unless Germany avoids a conflict by an amicable settlement. Two ladies are placed in the Modern Language Tripos of Cambridge University examinations, no male candidates succeeding in attaining that position. At Lord Onslpw's request Mr Perceval (Agent-general) will give evidence before the Frozen Meat Committee of the House of Lords. He intends to oppose compuleory labelling, on the ground that it is the thin edge of Protection, and will be harassing to traders. He ia in favor of branding canvass wrappers in the same way as is done with shipments of wool. Armed men seized a bank in Dentenville, Kansas, U.S., and compelled the cashier to convey L 20,000 in gold to a buggy which they had in readiness cutside the building. The cashier took refuge in a newspaper office, which was fired into by the robbers, who af terwai ds decamped. Two civilians were killed in attempting to regain the money. M. Goblet, in his speech at Paris, contended that the retention of Alsacs by Germany was the m in cause of the insensate armaments of the European nations. France did not desire to provoke war, but was determined to be ready for it. Sydney, June 7. Ther9 is an unsettled feeling in labor circles, The railway men are dissatia-

fied with the reductions, and especially with the system of booking-off, whereby men may be on duty seventeen hours, but receiving pay only for eight or nine hours, while they ; actually work seventeen hours. News received from th 9 New H ibrides states that an epidemic of dysentery is prevalent amongst the natives, and that 100 deaths are reported at Fun* and 50 at Malo. Sir F. Dillon Bell is paying a brief visit to Sydney, en route to New Zealand. The reported rich mineral discoveries near Burra Burra have fizzled out for the present, as far as shallow sinking is concerned. Farther quests will be made for deep sinking. Brisbane, June 7. Heavy alluvial gold has been found at Pine Creek, It is feared that there will be a collision between the Chinese and Europeans in the field. The floods funds, which were locked up in the suspended banks, have been assigned to the Government, who are paying the Relief Committee in cash. Melbottene, June 7. The revenue for the past month has fallen L 285,000, and it is eatimated that the deficit for the financial year will be L 329,000. Had it not been for thn sale of Treasury bills there would have been a deficit of L 1,078,000., 078, 000. Mi Isaacs, ex-Solicitor general, has been re-elected unopposed for his old constituency. Pebth, June 7. It ia reported that the crushing at Pilburra produied lOOOozofgold from 216 tons of quartz. The Premier notifies that smallpox has entirely disappeared from the colony.