LATE CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 22

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph,—Copyright. (press association) GENERAL NEWS. London, May 9. The Rev G. S. Barrett, of Norwich, has been elected Chairman of the Congregational Union. Mr Edward Terry, comedian, has sailed in the R.M.S. Ophir for Melbourne, under engagement to Messrs Williamson and Musgrove. He will visit New Zealand. Mr M. Davitfc, M.P. for North Meath, who was recently declared bankrupt, has applied for the Chiltern Hundreds. New York, May 9. Wholesale desertions are reported from the British warships which took part in the Columbus Festival. One vessel is said to have lost as many as 70 men. St Petersburg, May 9. Russian diplomatists fear that Germany will seek to divert attention from her home troubles by means of a foreign war. HOME POLITICS. London, May 9. At a meeting of the London members of the Liberal Party a resolution was carried denouncing the Budget, owing to there being no proposal to tax ground values, and declaring that it does not fulfil the programme announced at the meeting in Newcastle. IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. London, May 9. The Prince of Wales paid a visit to the Imperial Institute to-day. Three hundred guineas has been paid for the use of houses in Queen's Gate, Kensington road, S.W., overlooking the route the opening procession will take. INSTITUTE HONOURS. London, May 9. Sir Somers Vine has been created a C.M.G. London, May 10. Lord Herscbell will be created a Knight of the Bath, and Sir F. Abel receives a baronetcy, in connection with the opening of the Imperial Institute. HIS HOLINESS THE POPE. Berlin, May 9. The Bishop of Metz and the Catholics of Lorraine have expressed the hope that the Pope, will soon cease to be a prisoner in the Vatican. The Kaiser has admonished them, as their opinions are unjust to Italy, and he has forbidden the clergy to interfere in politics. Rome, May 9. The Austrian, Belgian and Spanish Governments, yielding to the encyclical issued by the Pope, have consented to discuss the question of disarmament. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN NEWS. London, May 9. The Queen reviewed the Victorian Horse Artillery team and the New South Wales Cavalry team at Buckingham Palace to-day. After the introduction, Major-General Sir J. C. Cowell, Master of the Household, said Her Majesty was very much pleased at the manner in which the men had acquitted themselves, and she hoped their stay in England would be a pleasant one. In the House of Commons, Mr Buxton, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying to a question, said he would shortly submit papers showing that the greatest care was exercised to prevent cruelty and coercion regarding the Kanaka traffic. He also mentioned that the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Sir John Thurston, High Commissioner of the Pacific, were in communication on the question of the best means of preventing unsuitable practices in recruiting by foreign vessels among the islands under British protection. Sir John Thurston, he said, was about to consult with the chiefs of the Gilbert Islands on the traffic. In concluding, he declared that Mr Stevenson's criticisms were apparently directed against the old stylo of recruiting. DUKE OF YORK'S MARRIAGE. London, May 9. The Duke of York and Princess May had an enormous ovation at the Royal ' drawing room.' THE TOAST OF 'THE POPE.' London, May 9. The City Aldermen passed a motion condemning the Lord Mayor's toast of 4 The Pope,' at the banquet to Cardinal Vaughan. The Lord Mayor denied that he had exalted the Pope above the Queen, and regretted that he had been misunderstood. SCOTCH DISESTABLISHMENT. London, May 9. The Scotch Disestablishment Bill, introduced by Dr C. Cameron, M.P. for Glasgow College, was read a first time by a majority of 66. THE GERMAN ARMY BILL. Berlin, May!). The Kaiser, addressing the troops at a review in Berlin, said he was surprised that the Army Bill had been rejected. Ho had expected that more patriotism

would have been shown by the members. If the new Reichstas? rejected the Bill he was prepared to enforce its passage, as he was convinced of its necessity. MARKING COLONIAL PRODUCE. London, May 10. Lord Kimberley, adopting the suggestion of Lord Ribblesdale, moved in the House of Lords for the appointment of a committee, including Lords Winchelsea, Onslow and Carrington, to consider the question of marking colonial produce.