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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9149, 3 September 1888, Page 4

Our cablegrams this morning announce that the Chinese Government have refused to ratify the treaty with America, providiag for the exclusion of Chinese from that country. Cardinal Moran has been making' some remarkable assertions at Tuanl regarding public opinion in the colonies on the Home Rule question, not the lean extraordinary being that every Catholic ana Protestant in Australasia sympathise? «U.i the movement. Unjustifiable statement* of this kind are not calculated to ac - vance the Irish cause. A sub-com-mittee of the American Congress to' reported in favour of President Cleveland's policy of retaliation. A ;>ro[«>a has also been made to slightly increase de duty on wool. The news of the earthquake in the South Island seems to have reached Australia, first in the form of a report taut Wellington had been destroyed. Needier to say the rumour caused intense excite menfc, which was only allayed when the hi particulars arrived. The criminal sittings of the &up Court will commence at 11 o clock t i» morning. The calendar is a comparative , light one, there being in all thirty-one indictments against eleven prisoners. Nearly all the Auckland members have now returned from Wellington. As sta in Saturday's paper, Messrs. Hamlin,Coin > Whyte, Monk, and Peacock, came by"Wanaka. By the Takapuna, which a rn \?" in the Manukau yesterday, Captain 3ion and Messrs. Withy, Moat, and La wry, u passengers. Sir G. M. O'Rorke came , the Gairloch. We understand that se\er-> of the Auckland members intend to ca meetings of their constituents at an earday, to give their opinion as to the ' session. To-day, at noon, at the 9" e ' lU Borough Council office, nominations be received by the Returning Oniee candidates to fill the vacancies in _ Borough Council caused by the retue m, of Messrs. Tapp, Goldsbury, and >-' through effluxion of time. It is sta e Messrs. Tapp and Goldsbury will set*. election, while a numerously-signed ie) tion has been presented to Messrs. x. Clark and Chas. V. Hill, asking them come forward. On Saturday afternoon in Queen-street a lad named Hugh McLeod received an u gash over one eye by coming again? -\j r iron step of a cart. He was taken -j King's chemist shop, where the voan was dressed. >*■ The condition of Dr. C. E. ren " is suffering from heart disease and ' grew so serious last week thai Vis. , ta . ?Vi„e, Bond, ~,,. Walker » tion to consider his case. <- '' e , > f r)_ the conclusion that there are hopTennent's recovery.