LATE CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1202, 15 March 1895, Page 17

LATE CABLE NEWS.

London, March 13. • Sir, T. Mcllwraith is seriously ill. Sir J. T. Hibbert, M.P.,Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Has informed the Associated Chambers of Commerce that the surplus of the national revenue this year is -likely to exceed half a million. General Booth has selected Canada for his over-sea colony. Mr Gardner, President of the. Board of Agriculture, replying to a question *in the House of Commons, said the Government was considering Avhether farmers could be permitted to send butter direct to consumers by parcels post. It was desired to encourage some branches of the farming industry. Dr E. Robertson, M.jP., Civil Lord of the Admiralty, in the course of a naval statement in the House of Commons, said that the attempt to recruit the navy from the mercantile marine had failed. He estimated the cost of construction for the coming year at £5,400,0C0, one-half of Avhich would be spent on battle-ships. A loan of £8,600,000 would be required for works at Portland, Devonport, Dover, Hongkong and Gibraltar, Avhich would be met by terminable annuities not exceeding thirty years’ currency. The eight hours system in dockyards had proved a great success. . ' v The Government is : very anxious to prevent the spread of the boot strike,. and is intervening Avith a view of settling' the difficulty. ; • *• • [ "* The Board of Trade officials are negotiating' Avith employers, aiid the men have been asked to formulate their grievances, with a view to their settlement by means of arbitration. A section of the factory-owners is trying to extend the lock-out to all parts of England. At present Scotland is not affected. It is hoped that all the Oroya’s cargo will be saved. The ship’s bottom is damaged. A heavy gale is blowing in the Bay of

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Naples, but the Oroya is steady, and is not receiving- any injury. . ' Work on board has been suspended. The Liguria starts for Australia immediately to take up the Oroya’s return voyage. Washington, March 13. A Spanish warship repeatedly fired on the American steamer Alliance on the Cuban coast. The latter escaped. Those on board the Alliance declare that no cause was given for the action of the Spanish war vessel. The French reply to the.. United States protest against the exclusion of American meat is anxiously awaited, as it will form a guide to the attitude that will be assumed towards the other European countries which are excluding American products. Thirteen hundred armed white cotton pressers attacked coloured dock labourers at New Orleans. Six were killed, many wounded, and the rest compelled to take refuge in flight. Paris, March 13. The Minister of Marine, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, refuted M. Lockroy’s pessimistic view as to the condition of the French Navy. Sydney, March 13. Mr Schey, after upsetting the order of the Government business, carried his victory further by securing the suspension of the Standing Orders to permit the Bill to be passed through all its stages. ■ The Bill provides for a uniform eight hours, with certain exemptions, and imposes fines and imprisonment on employers and employees exceeding eight hours’ work. It also applies to the Railways, Water Supply and Marine Board. The indolent manner in which the members of the Legislative Assembly treated the measure favours the opinion that its fate in the Council is certain. In committee members merely contented themselves with pruning the penalties. The third reading, is fixed for to-night. In the Legislative Assembly, Mr Watlciri moved the adjournment in order .to condemn the action of the Government in sending police to Mirimi in connection with the colliery strike. Several Labour members made accusations against the Government of showing a partisan spirit, and favouring the colliery proprietors. They also alleged that the Government were lending assistance in the evictions of miners. Ministers denied the charges, and asserted it was their duty and intention to maintain law and order, and that they would take any steps they deemed necessary for the purpose. Sir Henry Parkes urged the Government to introduce legislation compelling investigation in trade disputes. Perth, March 13. The establishment of Nesbit and Jerges, jewellers, Coolgardie, has been entered by burglars, who stole .£IOOO worth of gold and jewellery. Several arrests have been made.’ Brisbane, March 13. A -European boy of 11, attending the Central School, where there are 1100 children, has been found to be suffering. irom leprosy. He developed the symptoms at Christmas, but the doctors had no suspicion that the disease was leprosy. v The Government offered the parents to privately isolate the boy and attend to him, but it has been, decided for the sake of others that he shall be removed to the Government lazarette. The discovery has caused a great scare among the relatives of the children attending the school. Adelaide, March 13. The Premier has written to the Premier of Victoria in reference to his objections to the reciprocal treaty with New Zealand. He says that assuming for the moment that federation generally will not be advanced by it, yet a modicum of federation at least will be secured by the treaty. He invites consideration 1 to the fact of how far Victoria is justified in complaining. It was only recently he unsuccessfully invited the Victorian Govern 7 ment to show a practical exhibition oft intercolonial comity by the redemption of the promises previously given by that cblony for securing a friendly settlement of differences between the two colonies. The reply was that Victoria never considered neighbouring colonies in her commercial policy. Victoria was directly responsible for the existence of many barriers to inter-, colonial Freetrade, which, having servedher. purpose, she now desires to remove. Having embarked on a course of Protection nearly 30 years’ ago, Victoria has eversince persistently continued and extended it in various ways. Mr Kingston claims that the treaty is not anti-Federal, and invites Mr Turner to make a similar arrangement. ' ,