LATE CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 858, 10 August 1888, Page 17

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Cop.yrv&hi.

(PER PASS 3 ASSOCIATION.) London, August 7-.

A fishing-lugger foundered off - Scarborough, on ‘ the Yorkshire coast, and nine persons were drowned. In the Hpiise of! poujmons, Sir;. George Campbell, member for Kirkcaldy, has given notice to on Thursday, vybether; Sir Henry ParScea admitted acting illegally in, excluding tlie from Nev{ Cs.pp,th Wales ; and, whether hp had stated shat the Government were determined lo ex qlude the Chinese, despite the Imperial Government; and whether Lord Carrington had assented to the Bill indemnifying the action of the Government ; and whether this Bill is in accordance witli the existing treaties between Great Britain and Chinq.

Arrived—Tongariro, at Plymouth. Her cargo of frogen meat is in good condition.

London, August S. An off-coast Australian wheat cargo ha° been sold at from l>ss 0.1 to 365.

Flour is quoted at from 25s 6d to 265.

Tin, L9O iron, Orb brand,Hq 10s. Leather, best sid,e3, 10.|d. v v-« The Eoyal train •< teiVeiled from Lyndon To Sdihbii'rgh in 7.lsurs 52, minutes, tlvuVbr'eafcing the Record. -■ Tn’ consequence of reported threats ij 9 / dyuamffe U»e"railways on the underground linos, a strict watch is being kept on all lines. Bome, August 7. The whole of the Lfgari Islands are

in native eruption, but no fatalities are repotted.

Paris, August 7.

M. Carnot, the President, to-day,, at Montargis, unveiled the statue erected to the memory of tho late M. Biquette Mirabeau, a prominent French statesman. The ceremony was the occasion for much enthusiasm.

Vienna, August 8. Heavy floods have caused extensive damage in country districts. , Durban, August 8.

It is reported that Dinizulu and Undabuko have taken refuge in the Ceza bush country. An immediate effort will be made to dislodge them. Paris, August 8.

A large body of strikers sacked and fired a . factory at Amiens, and then interfered with the firemen who attempted- to subdue the flames. A serious riot ensued between the strikers and the firemen. The cavalry were called oat and charged the rioters with drawn swords, clearing the street. The firemen then set to work to subdue the flames, which they ultimately succeeded in doing.

Later on the strikers attacked a number of Italian workmen who had been imported to fill their places. In tho melee many of tii6 latter were brutally ill-used. Sydney, August 8. It is understood that; the agents of the mail steamer Zealaudia have obtained a sufficient quantity of coal to supply that vessel on her arrival here. A private letter received from London announces the death of Captain Brae, the pioneer of the old Panama line of steamers running to New Zealand. Arrived—Barque Bio, from Napier. Sailed —Mariposa, for Auckland. A man named Smith was arrested at Bairauald on a charge of attempting to poison a man named Lane, a publican, another man named Bosd, and a woman. It is stated that Smith was jealous of the latter, and put strychnine in the men’s food. All the victims of the poisoning are recovering. Brisbane, August 8. Two men. committed a brutal outrage on a young woman at Jooloongabba yesterday. No arrosts have yet been made. Perth, W.A., August 8. Jarvis, the bushranger, has been captured near Fremantle, where it is supposed he was engaged bushranging. He attempted to fire on the arresting constable, but the latter was too quick, and in self-defence fired, wounding Jarvis in the .shoulder, bat not Beriously. Melbourne, August 8. Sailed—Manapouri, for the Bluff. His Excellency Sir William Jervois is a passenger. His Excellency was met aboard the steamer by Sir James Hector, New Zealand Commissioner at the Exhibition, and a number of prominent New Zealanders now visiting Melbourne, and was entertained at luncheon by Sir James Hector, who, in proposing tlie health of his Excellency, said he desired on behalf of the Colony to express thanks to : his Excellency for the great interest he had taken in the Exhibition. The success of. the New Zealand ; Court was almost entirely d.up to the lively personal ipter.est shown in the. work by h,is Excellency. Ijn reluming thanks, his Excellency said the. New Zealand Court held, an admirable posi- ■ tion aniong Qtb.ee colonies, and the i Colony was mu,ch indebted to Sir dames' Elector,, the New Zealand Commissioner, for the admirable manner in which the arrangements of the court had been carried out, and for the eareful attention paid to delails. This afternoon a meeting of the New Zealand Exhibition Commissioners and others was held to consider the adverse criticism by the New Zealand Herald’s special correspondent on tho mifterad exhibits, which had appesu'-od in tho Argus thin morning in a cable niossage from New Zealand. Seventy gentlemen were present, Mr Luuissou, the Mayor of Christchurch, in the chair. After a discussion, a resolution was passed expressing satisfaction in a({ the arrangements, and affirrrj.ag iliat the' criticism of the corfbspdrident waa pysm&hiie. '"‘The ’me’eting edilod-i together independent qf any suggestion from Sir 1 James fcl,eptof. ! Arfived—tSchdoggy S,t forty-- j I four days'oi\t $?o Grey gi out b... ! I&ayy a young single woman, waa arrested at Warnambool on a charge of child murder, It ia alleged that she threw her child into a waterhcle. Newcastle, August 8. • Sailed—Schooner Grecian Bend, for Auckland,

Port Pirie, August 8. Arrived—Schooner Edith May, irom Wanganui. Hobart, August 8. Arrived—Kuapehu, at 11 this morning, with 19 Australian passengers, and 92 for New Zealand. The Kuapehu sails at 5 this evening.

SPECIAL. London, August 7. The Government, have declined to recommend that the convict Jackson, who murdered a warder at Manchester Gaol, should bo respited, and the sentence of death will be carried out. Mrs Gordon Baillie has been admitted to bail, herself in LSOO and t,wo sureties of L2so'each. Parleying for a British protectorate over North Borneo is still proceeding. Irish members are protesting against the application of England for a reprieve of the murderer Max well, and they compare this clemency with the treatment received by O’Donnell, the murderer of Carey, the Phoenix Park informer.. Mr Schofield succeeds Mr J. Cham’ berlain as President of the Birmingham Badical Union; Bishop Barry denies that he was offered the see of Chester. The Higher Court has confirmed the conviction of Mr Dillon, who has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for an agrarian offence. The Times has accepted Mr Parnell’s challenge, and has published the Irish Local Government and Coercion Bills, which it is alleged were not accepted by the last Cabinet. Washington, August G. Mrs Sheridan, the relict of the late General Sheridan, will bo voted a pension by the United States Senate. St. Petersburg, August G. General Ignatieff, Bpeaking at a banquet at Kiel, said Bussia waa gradually advancing to the westward, careless cf the opposition shown by Austria.