CABLEGRAMS

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, 10 May 1895, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS

ÜBITfSU, FOREIGN AND INTERCOLONIAL.

[From Press Association | London, May 8. The Houße of Commons, by a mpjority of 121, r< jected a motion to revoke the Duke of Edinburgh's allowance, on the ground that he is no longer a British subject. ate quoled at 106, which is tab lowest prica on recordshe report of tbe Opium Committee, with regard to the trafficjln India, is decidedly adverse to interference with the importation of the drug, and declares that the agitation in England ia due to overdrawn pictures as to i's iffeots. the Hon. J. G. Ward is to be enterfained at a banquet on the 21st by ftew Zaalandera in London. Obituary. — Earl of Selbourne. At the wool sales a good selection t was offared, and prices were well maintained. Continental buyers woro the chief operators. Jdb«z B*lfour was quietly landed, aud has been charged with the fraudu. lent misusa of L 20,000, trust moneys, and remanded. The wheat market is quiet, though prices are Bteady. Butter stocki are virtually cleared, and the demand ia good. Factory. nude is quoted at 80 J ; dairy, from 75 j to 783. Victorian and New Zealand cheeae in G-lasgow rangei from 46 1 to The Marquis oE Ripon is pressing Sir Henry Loch to reconsider bis refusal to accept the Gavemorsbip of New South Wales. Mr Gladstone, in a ltt'er, declares that the conduct of tha Sultan with regard to Armenia is worse than the treatment of Bulgaria in 1876, when the insurrection in tho latter country was suppressed with great cruelty, and declares that the nation would support Lord llosebery in euergetic action being taken to prevent a repetition of tho atrocities by Turkish Holdiery in Armenia. A large numbor of people assembled ad Plymouth to welcome Stoddart's team on arrival. Peel, in the course of an interview, declared that colonial cricket had vastly improved, and tho members of the team wera charmed with the visit and hospitality extended to them. He believed that the Australian team chosen to visit England next year would comprise the beatTaU-round players the colonies possessed. The Spanish Government have apologised for the actioaj)f the warship in firing on the vessel Alliance in Cuban waters. The Bussian Government are satisfied with the concessions made by Japan and regards the incident as closed. They havo stopped the preparations of war. The garrison who held Chilrdl against the rebels have been awarded half a year's additional pay. It is reported that the indemnity to be paid by China will be increased to (? by) 10 millions sterling, as a solatium to Japan for giving up territory on the mainland. A public meeting in London, which was largely at I en tied, carried a resolution calling upon the Government to interfere in the Armenian difficulty. Mr Gladstone, in a vigorous letter, states that Turkey is apparently resolved to procure her own ruio. He hoped that England, alone or jointly with the great Powers, would use force, if necessary, to prevent a repetition of the deeds of shame. Oscar Wilde has been released on bail, his sureties teing Lord Douglas and the Rev. M. Stewart Headlam. A train conveying the King and Queen of Italy was thrown off the rails at Incisa, in Piedmont, but their Majsstiei escaped without injury. Pahis, May 8. The Japanese Minister in Paris has informed M. Hanotaux, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, that Japan has renounced her claim to the permanent possession of the Liautong Peninsula, Including Port Arthur. St. Petersbubg, May 8. A communique to the 'Journal de St. Petersburg ' states that Japan, yielding to the advice of the Great Powers, has renounced final possession of Fengtien. Shanghai, May 8. The Great Powers insist that China shall adequately compensate Japan for surrendering the Liautong Peninsula. Melbouenb, May 8. Another sewer acoid3nt has happened at the Port Melbourne section of the sewerage works, where the shaft is down 50ft. Three men, named William Young, James Phillips, and James Oonray, were driving the shaft in the sand, when the ground collapßed. Toung just barely escaped. Phillips was crushed to death, but Conray was entombed, and only reecued after three hours 1 work. He was badly injured. Neale, the lodger who was struck down by Dooley when the former attempted to prevent the murder of Mrs Dooley and her mother, has succumbed to his injuries; never having recovered consciousness. Archbishop Carr, replying to Bishop Thornton, of Ballarat, on the queßtion of the union of the Roman and Anglican church ci?, deprecated his remarks with reference to Rome, and said that Bishop Thornton's address was remarkable chiefly as proving the deep and widespread interest the question had aroused. Catholics looked forward hopefully to the issue. They were not active disputants in the matter. Whatever the outcome might be be was certain that many. Anglicans were yearning for a union with Rome. They had adopted Catholic practices and devotions to such an extent that a stranger, on entering an Anglican church, found it difficult to distinguish the counterfeit from the real. They felt the inconsistency of tbe thing being so near and yet so far from Catholic

Sydney, May 8. The ' Sydney Morning Herold ' says of the New Zealand loan :- " The negotiations for the 3 per cent, loan mark a Btage in the progress of colonial finance. Compared with the price that wou'd probably have been obtained for a3 l per cent, loan the result is nothing to boa9t of. However, it makes th< British investor familiar with what Australia expects to obtaiu ia the future. There is no reason to rrgrefc that New Zealand had led tbo way in the mutter, although, unless New Sou' h Wales can get a price nearer par it would do well to be cautious in follow. ' iog New Zealand's course. Two men named Johu Miller and Benjamin Buayan were suffocated at Munro's boiling-down work*, Alexandria. Tho bodies were fouud in a receptacle uaed for steam escaping from the digester. It is supposed that Miller, who was engineer, was inside repairing when overcome by foul gases, aud that Benjamin Bunyau, ia an attempt to effect a rescue, was aho overcome. A canvontion representing 22,000 workers is now sitting. The principal subject of discussion is the attitude to be udopted next season. Reticence is displayed in the matter, but it is understood that tho shoarers generally I anticipate a conflict on a more extended sc&lo than happened Uat year. ! In view of tbe fact that another strike of shearers ia imminent during the ensuing seison, the hoadquirtors of the New Z)»land Workers' Union has been removed fcom Victoria to Sydney. Hojbaet, May 8. At a meeting of the shareholders of the T'isinaniau Exhibition tho report stated that it w.»s doubtful whether the shareholders would rec^ivo any portion of their money back, unlesj the outstanding amount was collected. The meeting was satisfied that the exhibition itself was a genuine success, but financially it wa3 a dismal failure. The first prize iv the Van Dieraan's Bank lottery went to Western Australia, and two others of the principal prizes to Sydney. Beisbanj-;, May 8. *The Courier, 1 commenting on the Advances to Settlera Act of Now Z *aland, considers it a good thing for the borrower, but strongly savoring of injustice to lending institutions and private mortgagees who have advauc9d loans on values which now leava them no margin. The act, it Rays, seems adopted to transfer to the Government Lending Board all gilt-edgrd securities in New Zaaland and leave ordinary money-lenders nuch properties as are not good enough for the board. This is calculated to extinguish the money-lending industry altogether. 1 The Courier ' adds that the ingormlty of the persons whose interests are menaced is likely to be equal to the exigencies, and there is a probability that some of the existiDg mortgagees will discover means of foisting doubttul securities oa the board.