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NOTES FROM LONDON.

(Per R.M.S. Aloana, at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 18. The publication of Sunday newspapers in London has plenty of opposition. Fail Rosebery, in the course of a speech, took the matter up, declaring strongly against the system. lie called for a “truce of God” between the "Alaii” and “Telegraph.” Neither Sunday paper has been so successful as was expected.

[Both papers have since ceased publisiiing Sunday editions.] The report of the Pacific Cable Committee and a Parliamentary paper containing correspondence regarding the laying of the cable has been issued in London. The committee recommended the proposed cable should bo opened and operated by the Governments interested, the general direction to be in the hands of a manager in Loudon under control of a small board, upon which the associated Governments shall be represented. The paper contains a statement by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the effect that the British Government has made proposals to the Governments of Australia and Canada on tne subject; but no conclusion lias been arrived at. It :s added f liat the Government of Great Britain has always considered the construction of a cable is of far greater importance to the colonies than to the United Kingdom. It is desired to afford support by the Alotherland to the great self-governing colonies in the project, the success of w’hich cannot fail to promote Imperial unity. For this reason the Government considers the responsibility should be borne by Canada and the Australasian colonies, they taking the profits, and Great Britain giving an annual subsidy not exceeding £20,000 for a period not exceeding twenty years.

The widow of Robert Louis Stevenson has written a letter to the “Westminster Gazette” from Madeira on the bombardment of Samoan villages by the British and American warships. “Who is to be held responsible,” demands the writer, “for these deeds, which disgrace both England and America?” Mrs Stevenson paints a vivid picture of the sufferings inflicted upon non-combatants.

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1423, 8 June 1899, Page 31

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NOTES FROM LONDON. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1423, 8 June 1899, Page 31

NOTES FROM LONDON. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1423, 8 June 1899, Page 31