NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 24

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Eleotbio I’blegbaph.—Copybigui'.

ENGLISH.

(BEOXBB’s TELEGBAKS.) IiONDOir, February 3. The Australian Agents - General had an interview yesterday with Mr Cecil Raikes, the Postmaster-General, in which they urged the acceptance of the contracts offered for the car riage of mails to Australia. In reply, Mr Raikes said he wished to have the views of the Imperial Conference on the question. He would, however, refer the matter to Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of State for the Colonies. In addressing a meeting at Newcastle last night, . Lord Hartington declared that it was the duty of Unionist Liberals to continue to make sacrifices for the purpose of upholding the Union between Great Britain and Ireland as long as such sacrifices were necessary. The criticisms recently made by Lord Randolph Churchill in the House of Commons, with regard to Unionist Liberals, would not affect the relations between that party and the Conservatives. London, February 3. . Lloyds have posted as missing the barque Allahabad, which sailed from Glasgow for Port Chalmers on the 2nd of July last. London, February 3.

Lord Randolph Churchill, who left to-day for Monte Carlo, will make a tour through Algeria and Tunis, for the purpose of recruiting his health. London, February 5.

In receiving a deputation yesterday on the subject of State-aide 1 emigration to the colonies, the Marquis of Salisbury discouraged the idea. London, February 7. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales has left Loudon for Cannes.

London, February 7.

In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to a question, announced that no discussion with regard to State-aided emigration to the colonies would take place at the Imperial Jubilee Conference, unless the colonial delegates desired that the subject should be discussed. London, February 8. In the House of Commons last night Mr Parnell, in a speech which was moderate in tone, moved an amendment to the Address-in-Reply, denying that there was disorder in Ireland when the rents had been suitably reduced. Autonomy and not repression, be declared, was the remedy for the present crisis. Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan Police, has forbidden a torchlight procession of Socialists which it was proposed should take place to-night to celebrate the anniversary of previous Socialistic riots. It is reported that the Earl of Dunraven, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, will shortly resign his appointment, for the same reasons which caused the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill.

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London - , February 2. The War Office intend to send a large collection of munitions of war to tho Adelaide Exhibition. The Orient Company has intimated its willingness to accept a bonus of £550 per voyage for the carriage of mails. Sir G. Berry and Sir S. Samuel have warmly protested against the unnecessary delay in dealing with the mail tenders. Mr Raikes has, in consequence of the attitude of the AgentsGeneral, promised to consult the Cabinet on the matter. February 3. The Australian Wine Importers and Allsopp’s Brewing Companies are announced to be placed upon the market immediately. Baron Maclay is hopeful that the Czar will agree to the colonisation of New Guinea by Russia. A thousand emigrants are ready to go. The Paris correspondent of the Times states that Russia and Austria have arrived at a complete agreement upon the Bulgarian question. The Rev F. F. Goe, the new bishop of Melbourne, sails by the Oroya. Sir A. Blytli has advertised for a successor to Professor Custance, of the South Australian Agricultural Department. It is believed that Mr Raikes will delay dealing with the mail tenders until the ocean penny postage question has been debated in the House of Commons. The collection of ferns exhibited in the New Zealand court has been presented to the Prince of Wales, and

will be conveyed to his residence at Sandringham. London, February 4. Mr Ayerst Ingram has been elected President of the Anglo-Australian Society of Artists. Sir F. Leighton, Sir J. Gilbert, and Mr W. J. Linton have been elected members. The Society proposes to send a collection of pictures to Australia in August.

Mr Henniker Heaton intends to move for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the anomalies of the postal tariff.

Austria supports the modification of the Bulgarian Regency and the dissolution of the Sobranjo before proceeding to the election of a Prince. London, February 4.

The Orient Company will reduce the amount of their tender for conveying the Australian mails, provided the contract is for eight years. London, February 5.

Mr E. Stanhope states that the cost will preclude the Government from publishing Major Parrott’s Soudan reports.

Mr D. Christie has registered a Federal Insurance Company. Another survivor from the ship Kapunda has been discovered, his name being William King Russell.

Yerdi’s “ Otello ” has been received with great success in Milan. London, February 6.

An impression prevails that thecompanies t endering for the Australian mail contrect will accept £160,000 fora seven or eight years’ contract and 32 days’ service. Sir Graham Berry urges an immediate conference between the Agents-General, Mr Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-Geueral, and the companies interested in the mail service.

Mr Healy has been elected for Longford. Ras Aloula, the rebel chief, has arranged a league with the coast tribes in order to prevent the European occupation of Abyssinia or the Soudan.

Grueff Bendereff and other refugees have been arrested at Bucharest, for endeavoring to foment a revolution in Bulgaria and Roumania.

France and Russia decline to sanction the abolition of corvee (forced labor and service) in Egypt. London, February 7. Mr Whiffen, liquidator in the Commercial Bank of South Australia, has now sufficient funds to pay the Home creditors 20s in the £ with interest.

Sir Charles Tupper slates that England will subsidise a mail service from Yancouver to China aud Japan. The amount of the subsidy is one hundred thousand pounds annually. The appeal of his Holiness the Pope to the Roman Catholic candidates for seats in-the Reichstag has caused dismay in the ranks of the Clerical party. The elections are likely to result in favor of the Government.

London, February 7. A million of the Yictorian loan has been paid. A large shipment of Scotch and Rhine salmon ova and Rhine char, carp, and trout will be forwarded by the Aorangi. Sir Arthur Blyth and Sir Saul Samuel are urging a conference of mail companies. Bubear beat Perkins in a sculling race at Maine easily by three lengths. (AGE SPECIALS. —UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Per Tarawera at the Bluff.) London, January 27. Lord Salisbury has promised Sir Graham Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, to notify the European Powers with reference to the Melbourne International Exhibition to be held in ISBB. Mr Henniker Heaton has fowarded a communication to Mr Raikes, Postmaster. General, advocating the introduction of an Imperial trans-oeeanic penny postage system. January 28. Sir Charles Dilke considers that the conduct of France in reference to the New Hebrides involves a justifiable casus belli. A Committee of the Senate of the United States of America appointed to inquire into the- claims of American subjects who acquired land in New Zealand previous to the annexation of the islands by Great Britain, has requested President Cleveland to insist upon England indemnifying the claimants. The new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, the Right Rev Dr Thomas Carras, has left for Melbourne via Italy. The Address-in-Reply to the Queen’s Speech was carried in ,the House of Lords after a brief debate. Lord Salisbury expressed a hope daring the debate that tho difference which had arisen between Lord R. Churchill and the Government would only be of a temporary character. Referring to the Irish question, Lord Salisbury stated that increased coercion was becoming more and more necessary in Ireland. In the House of Commons the debate haa been adjourned. Sir Robert Hamilton the recently ap. pointed Governor of Tasmania, has embarked for his new seat of Government.

The complete return for the Exchange Division of Liverpool shows that Mr Gosohen Was defeated by seven votes. The Municipal Corporation of . Cork has heen Invited by a circular issued in the name of the Prince of Wales to subscribe to the fund for the Imperial Institute. In reply, they have declined to subscribe, and BUggest that the Prince of Wales should contribute to the relief of the existing distress in Ireland. The Right Hon Mr Childers has consented to act on the London Committee of the Centennial Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne daring 188 S. Lord Northbrook’s speech, delivered in the House of Lords, supported the proposed expenditure of the Imperial Government on the defences of the ooaling stations of Great Britain. The German war steamers will in future call at Colombo.

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(reuter’b telegrams.; St. Petersburg, February 2. The export of horses from Russia has been forbidden by the Government. Berlin, February 4. His Holiness the Pope has recommended. the Roman Catholic members of the Reichstag to support the Increase of the Army Bill, in the hope that by so doing the German Government will in future favor the improvement in the position of Roman Catholicism in Germany. Rome, February 7. It is reported that Count Robilant, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has his appointment in con-.-sequence of the Italian reverses at Massowah.

THE EAST,

(REUTER'S telegrams.) Rangoon, February 2. With the approval of Mr Bernard, British. Chief Commissioner in Upper Bnrmab, Aboo, the Buddhist Primate, 'has issued an edict calling on the Burmese to peaceably accept British rule. It concludes by stating that a Tree pardon will be granted to those rebels who surrender before the 16th Instant. Suez, February 6. Mr H. M. Stanley, who is proceeding to the rescue of Emir Bey, has left for Zanzibar. Rangoon, February 6. Sir Frederick Roberts, the commander of the British forces in Burmah, sailed to-day for Calcutta. Aden, February 7. News has been received that the Nigus of Abyssinia has written to the General commanding the Italian forces at Massowab, demanding the evacuation of that district by the Italians.

AUSTRALIAN

(REUT Ell’S TELEGRAMS.) - Sydney, February 3. The German gunboat Adler arrived to-day from the South Seas. Steady rain is reported to have fallen throughout the colony. Sydney, February 4. A 150 yards race took place to-day iu Sydney between Hutchens, the English pedestrian, and Saunders, an Australian. The latter won. Time, 15 and one-fifth seconds. Great excitement prevails in Sydney concerning the elections, which take.place to-morrow. Melbourne, February 5. Typhoid fever still continues throughout Victoria; and since the beginning /of the year 396 cases have heen reported, of which 68 were fatal. From 20 to 30 fresh cases are reported daily. A discussion is being carried on in the Melbourne daily press as to who should initiate a movement for celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. The Government have declined to do so, as no provisiou for that purpose has been made in the Estimates. Sydney, February 6. Messrs Garrard, Smith, and Hawthorne have heen elected for Balmain. Up to the present thirty-one members have been elected to the Legislative Assembly, only three of them being Protectionists. At the test bicycle races which took place in Sydney yesterday, the mile event was won by Wood, an English bicyclist, the five-mile race being won by Con Dwyer, of Melbourne. Arrived —Union Company’s s.s. Wnihora.

Sydney, February 7. In a foot race in Sydney to-day Samuels, the aboriginal, beat Malone, the sprint runner. Melbourne, February 7. The Victorian Government, replying to a circular from the promoters of the Pacific Cable Company, states that they were unable to move in the matter until fuller details have been

received. The subject would probablv be discussed at the Imperial Conference. Melbourne, February 8. Applications for space at the Centennial Exhibition must he made before the end of August next. February 8. Mr Dodds, Attorney-General, has accepted the vacant judgeship, and will take up the position on his return from the Loudon Conference, where he represents Tasmania. Sydney, February 8. 11.M.5. Dart, which has arrived at Sydney, has picked up three Frenchmen, who have be6n identified as escapees from New Caledonia. They have been returned under an extradition treaty with that Colony. (Per s.s. Tnrawera at the Bluff.) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, February 2. Tbe steamer Victory has arrived at Thursday Island from New Guinea. She reports all quiet. An expedition against the murderers of Captain Craig at Johannet Island has returned, but the result of the expedition is unknown at Port Moresby. Edelfeldt, representative of Burns and Philip at Motu Motu, reports that the Natives are very troublesome and unsettled. On the 6th January they killed a man, woman, and child belonging to 'Moraria, who were staying at Motu. The warriors then proceeded up William River to Moraria, where they killed sixteen more men, women and children, and several more Morarians going to and returning from work. The tribes had previously been friendly, and no reason is given for the massacre. The Motuans have been holding a great feast sinoe, and state their intention to massacre the people and burn the village of Kerewaiu in the same way. There will probably be reprisals ere long. A curious dispute, which has afforded some wholesome amusement to the inhabitants of Carlton, has arisen between the Cemetery Trustees and the Minister of Lands. The trustees asserted their right to erect a fence across a certain portion of the reserve, which the Lands Department denied, and pulled down the fences. The trustees rebuilt it, and eventually the edifying spectacle ensued of an officer of the Lands Department, accompanied by a carpenter, on one side of the fence removing the pickets, while the Secretary of the Cemetery Trustees, also accompanied by a carpenter, engaged himself in nailing them up again on the other aide, an admiring crowd of larrikins meanwhile contemplating the fun. The matter will probably be fonght out in a law court.

Great regret is felt in Melbourne at the Bndden death of Mrs Robert Waller, wife of the well-known writer “ASgles,” of the Australasian. The deceased lady partook of a glass of iced water, which gave rise to internal inflammation, causing death in a short time. Tha Vegetable Products Commission, now sitting, reports the acclimatisation in Victoria of many Eastern plants. The Commission had a cap of tea prepared from a plant grown in this Colony, which was unanimously pronounced excellent. A series of short pedestrian races for £SOO and the championship of the world, between H. Hutchens, champion of England, and W. Clarke, champion of Australia, were concluded on Monday at the Fiemington running grounds. The contests comprised races at three distances —viz., 50 yards, 100 yards, and 130 yards. Clarke was successful inthefirst two, thus winning the championship. Miss A. Stewart, the well-known actress, leaves this month for England on a twelve months’ holiday. The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce had nnder consideration the question of adopting the Californian cental sack for grain. It is generally admitted that the cornsacks in nse in these colonies are inordinately large, and that a reduction in size is desirable, in order to facilitate handling. The matter will be farther considered by the Chamber. A dispute has arisen between the Seamen’s' Union and the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company. On a recent trip of the s.s. Inangua to the north-west coast of Tasmania, the second mate, White, spoke to a seaman named Gilmour respecting a matter of doing his work, whereupon, as is alleged, Gilmour abased aad kicked the second mate, who retaliated in an effective manner by knocking him down. Gilmour complained to the Union, who notified the Company that if White was not dismissed the men would be withdrawn. A compromise, however, was arrived at, and a full inquiry will be made into the oircumstauces of the altercation.

Mr Edward Langton, who has gone Home,, has been commissioned by Mr Gillies to inquire into the working of the Audit Office in England, also into the method of the Committee of Commissions of Public Accounts. His experience as a financier and as treasurer in Victoria have thoroughly qualified him to master the subject in question, Sydney, February 2. The losses of farmers in the Grafton and Clarence districts are estimated at £IOO,OOO. The maize crop was entirely destroyed. The mining strike continues, but hopes of a settlement are not abandoned.