LATE CABLE By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8190, 23 May 1895, Page 3

LATE CABLE By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.

(rr-% frkm association.) Received May 23, at 1.10 a.m. London, May 22. The latest Derby betting is— 9 to 2 against Raconteur, 6 to 1 Laveno. ' Lord Alfred Douglas began the quarrel by calling the Marquis of Queeusberry a liar and slanderer. The latter eventually knocked his son down. A furious struggle resulted until the police interfered, and separated the pair. Lord Rosebery will introduce in the House of Lords on Friday a BjII enabling th« colonial judges to sit on the Judicial Committee oJ tho Privy Council. Fanning Island has been selected as a station at which the proposed Pacific cable should touch. Capetown, May 22. A public meeting is being org«ioiscd to protest against the Government's proposal to include frozen meat under the heading of preserved meats, thus increasing the import duty by 2d per lb. New York, May 22. An immense quantity of gunpowder accidentally exploded and wrecked Monongahela Mine, in West Virginia. One hundred •nd thirty miners are entombed. Up to tho present 14 bodies have been recovered. The work of rescue is proceeding. Sydney, May 22. Sailed — Anglian and Rotomahana, for Auckland. Tho debate on the motion of censure was resumed in the Legislative Assembly to-day. Mr Griffits, expressing the views pledged by the Labor party, said the Government was less objectionable than the Opposition, but the party were voting for the Income Tax, not the Government. Ha declared that Mr Reid (Premier) hid a whalebone backbone which could be bent to force democratic reform better than the backbone of Sir G. R. Dibb-, which was as brittle as glass. The Premier retorted, after Mr Oriffiths' remarks, that it would be a degredation and an insult to receive his vote. The House will probably divide on the question early in the morning. Melbourne, May 22. The Premier has wired to the other colonies urging the necessity of joint action in bringing pressure to bear on the Imperial authorities for a subsidy to the Pacific cable, and also the adviseablcness for an early meeting in London of a commission representing the Imperial Government and the colonies, to discuss a suitable plan of co-operation. Houart, May 22. The hull of the barque Davenport, which was recently wrecked at Circular Head, bas been told for L3O.